German camouflage varied a lot over the war, so the first question is what year you’re going for.

Some of it was dictated by the theater, such as the grey colour being replaced by yellow for the DAK. But a lot of it was up to the individual units and what supplies they had.

Also, don’t forget that a lot of the pictures we have are black and white, which makes it difficult to figure out exactly what’s going on with individual vehicles.

For a Weird War type paint-job, circa 1946 or 1947, you could potentially go with two variations:

The first is one where all the Germans had left were ad-hoc units, scraped together from whatever men and materials were available. In other words: everything goes and some tanks might be in simply red or yellow basecoat without unit numbers or insignia.

The second is a more structured approach where the Germans aren’t as hard pressed. In this case you might see tanks with a more uniform factory applied camouflage (as the Germans did do towards the end of the war) and with unit numbers and insignia clearly visible. This would likely be a version of the ambush or octopus schemes, though variations would certainly still be possible due to refits and repaints in the field.

@mage Try looking at “colors of war” . It shows the various patterns abs it may help you pick one that makes sense

^ This right here, go there and look at them, after that you can work out how to paint them once you’ve found a colour scheme you like

Grey would be very early war. Plain yellow could be seen throughout the war, but camouflage was typically employed by most frontline units. However, for a large walker-type unit, you could probably argue that it’s too big to effectively camouflage anyway, so a plain yellow paint-job would be fine.

I’m not really sure if Games Workshop has a paint that’s a good match for Dunkelgelb. If you want to paint historical, I would suggest looking at Vallejo paints. Their range is much better suited for it – and it’s cheaper too… 🙂

@torros unfortunately GW have changed their range twice since then. So need to find GW to GW first and then use that. But it’s still my go to chart when I need to check things

Bloody typical.  Gw says you can still buy Balor brown but not sure if it’s the same colour as before