hungarian army painting

I recommend buying the Osprey book about the Hungarian army – it is a superb painting guide.

Those are just common makes of modelers paints, if you have a look online you can find the same hex numbers (the make up of the paint) or very similar done by other manufacturers.

for example there are a number of Vallejo to Citadel /GW guides

Ah ok, think I know what your saying..

The choice of colour comes from a number of sources, in some case’s its the original specs of items (eg cotton dye or the paint used on the aircraft etc). In other cases its a colour match between what was used in the field / after weathering to equal whats in the paint tin.

You could also have shades of close enough :p

As the Soviet Army paint guide says, you have all sorts of quality control issues & weathering issues to contend with, so I go with a close enough approach… a bit more Hollywood than actual Museum

EDIT – PS your English is very good, dont knock it

• This reply was modified 5 years, 7 months ago by Nat.

some interesting ideas, might be more the colours your looking for.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 7 months ago by Nat.

Exactly. Brownish khaki was standard. The Hungarian uniform base color became a bit more green in late war in part of the production . Not changing by intent but caused by the material available.

Hungary lacked the capacity to produce enough in 44/45 so many of the Hungarian units newly trained in Germany/Austria got German material.
M 35 helmets delivered in WW II came in factory color of “Feldgrau”. Pre war ones got often painted in brown. Often semi glossy.
In winter a wash of chalk was often used. Real white color was rarely used to safe brown color in spring.

The camo cape was often replaced with a white one. linen found in next town. The specially made white winter stuff was rare. Most Hungarian soldiers had to use layers of cloth, based on the khaki standard coat.

Late war the side cap was replaced by a peaked field cap. The Peak being Cloth covered. Even 1944 some wore the old WW I helmet, not the M 35. They had to use what was in store.

I used the Soviet one as a guide… then decided to do my own thing :p

eg using a Battle Front khaki as a base colour for the uniforms, GW calaban green for the vehicles /field guns and helmets, a BF leather brown for the leather straps, etc.. my tanks are currently flat painted, ie single colour with no highlights, shading or toning, but they do for games.

As said before weather alters colours a lot… I used to have an issued set of DPM Combats, aka camo gear, that was shades of yellow instead of light brown, the dark brown had gone black and the black was a washed out grey!
And a dark green t-shirt that looked brown when put against newer issued t-shirts..

So guess what I’m saying is use the guide for indication and techniques but go with the colours that make sense to you and fit the theme and feel you’re going for with your army.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 7 months ago by Nat.