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Do what they did. Mix black and yellow.
They used exactly the same proportion of lamp-black to ochre (iirc either 99:1 or 100:1) as did the US Army during WW2 to make Olive Drab vehicle paint (which in Humbrol terms is 155). I like something a touch greener, so use Humbrol 159 - same colour as my WW2 British vehicles.Re Humbrol Authentic Colour - most of the colours were/are available in the main range anyway. They just stuck a different label on it and charged a bit more (e.g. the three German WW2 camo colours are in the main range as 83, 86 and 160). I've known people to argue the toss, but this was confirmed to me by Humbrol's chief chemist.
And Humbrol 150 is French Artillery Green by another name...
They used exactly the same proportion of lamp-black to ochre (iirc either 99:1 or 100:1) as did the US Army during WW2 to make Olive Drab vehicle paint (which in Humbrol terms is 155).
Most interesting! Thank you. If and when I get around to painting up Shermans (and a US force to go with it)...The color I get from mixing black and yellow is quite different from other paints I've used. Didn't ever really use Humbrol.
I'm not sure that simply mixing black and yellow really works. It's something to do with the chemical reaction between lamp-black and ochre that creates the greenish tone.
Humbrol 155 is not WWII olive drab, is the modern olive drab from Federal Standard. WWII Olive drab is very different. Moreover, there were three different Olive Drabs: one from the Army, for vehicles, and two for ythe Air Forces.