Chinese warlord uniform painting guide

[aircav]

Hi
New to all this BoB carry on & I have a few Uniformed Chinese to paint up for Pulp games.

Is the a uniform guide anywhere that I can take look at on line?

Or a brief run down of colours used

Thanks in advance

Cheers
Keith

[Overlord]

Tom Weiss has some nice pics of his painted Copplestone miniatures:
http://www.twfigurines.de/bob/chinese/chinese01.htm
http://www.twfigurines.de/bob/chinese/chinese02.htm
http://www.twfigurines.de/bob/chinese/chinese03.htm
http://www.twfigurines.de/bob/chinese/chinese04.htm
http://www.twfigurines.de/bob/chinese/chinese05.htm
http://www.twfigurines.de/bob/chinese/chinese06.htm

As does Chris Schuetz Blog:
https://majorthomasfoolery.blogspot.com/2015/03/chinese-warlords-bodyguard-unit.html
https://majorthomasfoolery.blogspot.com/2015/04/chinese-warlords-frontier-infantry.html
Lots of other good stuff here

Some of the many League of Extraordinary Kreigspeilers AARs offer assorted Chinese troops:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/leagueextraordinarykriegspielers/albums/with/72157676686138863

If you wanted a book, Osprey MAA463 Chinese Warlord Armies 1911-30 isn't bad.

[Moriarty]

Copplestone Castings has painted examples on their website?

[WarlordFish]

Uniform colors varied greatly from provence to provence depending on the quality of dye and textiles available. Greys, tans, browns, blues, cream, and other colors are all documented. You really can't go wrong.

[aircav]

 Thanks chaps 

[GARS1900]

“The standard uniform of most warlord soldiers throughout the 1911-28 period was a cheap cotton jacket and trousers worn with cloth puttees.
In summer the jacket and trousers were made of light, often coarse grey cotton; in winter, if the soldier was lucky he would be issued with a padded version. Some soldiers, especially in the southern provinces, had light yellowish-khaki cotton uniforms.”
Chinese Warlord Armies 1911-30, Phillip Jowett, page 37

So, basically, light/medium grey through light khaki seems to be the norm. Highly  recommend this Osprey, quite nice plates.

Not sure why grey was selected. Couldn’t have been that concealing, surely?

[cuprum]

Remember the color of German tanks during the beginning of the Second World War.
I have read about studies conducted in the early 20th century by the Russian military department in choosing camouflage colors for Russian field uniforms. The most noticeable colors were recognized as white, yellow, black, blue, red, dark green, bright green, brown and blue, and the least noticeable were yellow-brown, gray, blue-gray, olive, yellow-green-gray and grey-blue.