Color of uniform during the battle.
I am far away to be an expert for the Napoleon war time.
The only touch with that till today is the book I bought in 2015.
Bernhard Cornwell
Waterloo
(ISBN 978 3 8052 8053 2)
(Translated into German)
In it is written that there was a amount of fallen British soldier. And due to heavy rain (a thunderstorm if I remember correctly) during the night ALL there ex red uniform was now a kind of pink ! There the raindrops can hit it.
Time jump.
During my build, search and already shown Dio: "Defend the Oder" I came across that Seydlitz troops are easy to identifies in the confusion during retread.
One thing was that they wear German uniforms too.
But not battle dirty and not worn out or torn !
So who is the right color?
The one who is shown in a pic?
By which light? Angle?
In a book?
Print on which paper quality? How much g/qm ? Is the page with the illustration, pic covered with a dull or glossy varnish ? How many dpi, lpi is chosen?
Etc, etc, etc ...
Same for tank color. RAL system. Nice. How many shortcoming of supply did the factory get?
How often the color was reduce in the factory, in the field?
And you CAN`T identify colors by b/w photos as I read sometimes in other Forums.
Small example:
German field grey.
From Model Color and Andrea Color!
Pictures like FreG show us is a great support.
And a dark color is a dark color for base paint. Dot.
The variation, rendition is up to the modeller in my opinion.
Conclusion of my long speech.
Do not slave yourself (as I do in the past) in fix color rules. You can`t do it right.
So I decide for me:
Follow the examples, pic. I do what I think it is right in shades, variations. (I use booth colors as shown in the pic in the same Dio for different figures a a base color) And simply do it ! A good example right now is my current build: Maresal in the work in progress section.
Then you like your work and it will be nice.