help with painting guide

[blacksmith]

Hi,
I have to paint a few WWI German and British cavalry and I don't know this period so I'm asking if somebody kind enough would give a list of paints, preferably Vallejo, or point me to a link with a painting recipe with those colours.
TIA

[tin shed gamer]

I'd recommend sending Silent Invader a pm.
Although I know my onions when it comes to great war armour. I paint by eye not by pre made shades ,and SI has a good grasp on an effective bulk colour schemes,I'd recommend you take a look at his 1914 threads as well.(anything by Tim,Over open sights,or Beasts threads would go a miss either)
Mark.

[armchairgeneral]

There are painting guides at the top of the Great War section by Aircav.

[blacksmith]

There are painting guides at the top of the Great War section by Aircav.

I'm without internet at the moment so I cannot check, but I think the paintimg guides were mostly for infantry?
Thanks

[Driscoles]

For the britisch cavalry you can use the same color as for Infantry!
I use english uniform or khaki grey. Both from valejo !

[MartinR]

As above, the infantry and cavalry wore the same colour uniforms.

I also use English Uniform for my British, although WW1 khaki was a distinctly greener shade than the WW2 variety. Whatever, maybe they have spent too long in the mud.

Early war German uniforms were distinctly grey, I just used a mid grey (Humbrol Sea Grey iirc), later in the war they were more like WW2 Feldgrau, but by then most of the German cavalry  were fighting as infantry anyway. I do have a regiment or so of late war cavalry in steel helmets, most most of them are  Uhlans.

[blacksmith]

Many thanks to all for the help, much appreciated. I just need to have internet again and check all those links.
Cheers,

[aircav]

Vallejo Russian Uniform green is a good green Khaki.
When I was researching it I found that every batch of uniforms was dyed a slightly different shade of Khaki, so basically you can paint them whatever you feel looks right really.
Officers tended to have greener jackets.

[MartinR]

Ummm. Russian Uniform is a really green, green. I use it as the basis for the 1944 khaki drab tank colour.

I've got some original WW1 uniform items and I know guys in two different WW1 reenactment groups, and none of the stuff is that green. The greatcoat can look green n certain light though.

Id mix Russian Uniform with a dollop of English Uniform to brown it up a bit.