British Infantry

[Blackwolf]

Huh! No one has even mentioned webbing........

 My take on NW Europe; Use the Vallejo Brit. Uniform,use a mix such as chocolate brown for the shade and a beige brown for the highlights,it should be browny not too green.However Canadian made uniforms were greener as were armoured uniforms.
   Orctrader I think you may got a dud bottle,I've two bottles of Brit.Uniform,each is different.....one lighter one darker and the difference in colour is distinct.
  If you can still get it use Mike Owen's (Artizan Design) Brit Uniform download,excellent and it was free.

[Blackwolf]

 And furthermore Brit. Uniform is a colour,a khaki colour.Not a Federal Standard,much like German Field Grey the variations are endless........

 BTW Plynkes is the Brit Uniform man,his advise is usually spot on.

[Orctrader]

Orctrader I think you may got a dud bottle,I've two bottles of Brit.Uniform,each is different.....one lighter one darker and the difference in colour is distinct.
  If you can still get it use Mike Owen's (Artizan Design) Brit Uniform download,excellent and it was free.

Could be right on the "dud."  I often find that paint varies dramatically.  And I have the Artizan d/load.   

My Commandos are recent painting so I can recall the "research."  Quite a lot of testing and picture-gazing.  Rejected the Vallejo Brit uniform as mentioned.  Rejected the Panzer Aces British...whatever it's called.  Tested - and rejected -  various combinations - I mix and intermix as I go anyway.  I felt the "final" recipe was just about right.   

[Blackwolf]

Could be right on the "dud."  I often find that paint varies dramatically.  And I have the Artizan d/load.   

My Commandos are recent painting so I can recall the "research."  Quite a lot of testing and picture-gazing.  Rejected the Vallejo Brit uniform as mentioned.  Rejected the Panzer Aces British...whatever it's called.  Tested - and rejected -  various combinations - I mix and intermix as I go anyway.  I felt the "final" recipe was just about right.   

  That's the way to do it,ones own eye

   Cheers

  Guy

[Plynkes]

BTW Plynkes is the Brit Uniform man,his advise is usually spot on.

Very nice of you to say so, but I actually get this kind of thing hopelessly wrong rather too often. 

[huevans]

Range of mid browns will do, with variations in how much grey and how much yellow mixed in. I use enamels and Humbrol 26 is perfect for a yellowish - but still quite acceptable - variant.

Like feldgrau, dye lots and wear varied the colour greatly. Don't mix in green as the uniforms were brown.

Armoured battledress was exactly the same. NOT greener. All branches used denim battle dress in warm weather and this could be green-brown.

[Blackwolf]

Should have been more specific,I was not refering to the battledress as such for tankies,rather their working clothes. Armoured units were  the arm most associated (in my mind) with that colour.