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Miniatures Adventure => The Great War => Topic started by: SJWi on 16 December 2021, 05:28:18 AM

Title: WW1 Turkish Uniform Colours?
Post by: SJWi on 16 December 2021, 05:28:18 AM: Good morning. I am just about to start painting my Pendraken 10mm Turkish force for service in Palestine. Looking at my various sources I see uniform colours ranging from sand, through khaki to an almost green colour. I don't know if this represents differences in summer/winter wear, or theatre ( eg Middle East vs Caucasus), or a bit of both . Unless anyone can advise more definitively I plan to opt for Vallajo Khaki. Does anyone have anything better based on real uniforms? If so any advice as to a Vallejo paint reference as these are the ones I can most easily source locally.

Thanks in advance. I can always rely on helpful advice from Forum members
Title: Re: WW1 Turkish Uniform Colours?
Post by: carlos marighela on 16 December 2021, 06:24:24 AM: Try this:

https://www.ottoman-uniforms.com/ww1-ottoman-army-uniforms/

IIRC I painted mine Vallejo Green Brown for the most part.
Title: Re: WW1 Turkish Uniform Colours?
Post by: Chimpy on 16 December 2021, 06:50:03 AM: I painted each unit in a different shade to represent different standards of manufacture and wear. So From Vallejo Khaki to Russian Green.
Title: Re: WW1 Turkish Uniform Colours?
Post by: SJWi on 16 December 2021, 09:06:59 AM: Chaps, thanks for the link and advice. Looks like I can have quite a variety. I used to have some photos taken at the museum at Gallipoli and the army museum in Istanbul but can’t find them!
Title: Re: WW1 Turkish Uniform Colours?
Post by: monk2002uk on 17 December 2021, 07:05:52 AM: Contemporaneous black and white photographs of Ottoman soldiers often indicate significant variety in uniform colours within the same unit. I use a standard light khaki for all 6mm figures, just for ease of painting.

Robert
Title: Re: WW1 Turkish Uniform Colours?
Post by: bluewillow on 01 January 2022, 01:03:23 PM: I used various shades of khaki green to sand.

Look at the Australian war memorial uniform collection

Cheers
Matt
Title: Re: WW1 Turkish Uniform Colours?
Post by: SJWi on 01 January 2022, 04:48:27 PM: Matt, thanks. In the end I went for some units in Vallejo "Russia" uniform and some in "khaki", both then suitable lightened for highlighting. I'm pretty pleased with the results. Another project largely completed over the Christmas break.
Title: Re: WW1 Turkish Uniform Colours?
Post by: goingaviking on 24 January 2022, 09:40:50 PM: Here is a link to a painting guide, for New Zealand and Ottoman troops, produced to support volunteers painting 54mm miniatures for a Gallipoli exhibition in New Zealand. It includes some photograps to show the variation in uniform colours.
http://anzacdiorama.blogspot.com/p/page-1.html (http://anzacdiorama.blogspot.com/p/page-1.html)
Title: Re: WW1 Turkish Uniform Colours?
Post by: Golgotha on 24 January 2022, 11:03:51 PM: That is a great link Goingaviking they are oddly similar to WWII Japanese in appearance.
Title: Re: WW1 Turkish Uniform Colours?
Post by: Dobbie71064 on 16 February 2022, 10:43:52 PM: I have went for more of a brown khaki for my 28mm Turks. I used both Vallejo English Uniform and Reaper Uniform Brown (I think is the colour name). This was based off a paint guide in a old Wargames Illustrated article.
Title: Re: WW1 Turkish Uniform Colours?
Post by: Golgotha on 16 February 2022, 11:12:39 PM: WATCH:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15cUStDAaAU&list=PL9lDxmOVB4z4EHSN-zZlECXI7tWACJE3-&ab_channel=Cinemium
Title: Re: WW1 Turkish Uniform Colours?
Post by: SJWi on 25 February 2022, 06:19:41 PM: Golgotha, thanks. I used a mix of Vallejo "Russian Uniform" and "khaki" for various units. The film would seem to vindicate my choices! I've just finished my 10mm German Asia Korps. Just the Austro-Hungarian mountain artillery to go now.