Uniform color question

The Jump suite used by the 82nd and 101st od D-Day were a light tak color with shightly darker and greenish drab reinforcements to elbows, knees, and pockets. Most of them wore the standard jump boots which were russet brown. If you're modeling a later airborne trooper, say Bastogne, most wore more standard olive green field jackets or olive drab wool overcoat and wool field trousers. Boots could have been the lace-up jump type or the more standard 2-buckle type.

Hope this helps...............Bill

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"Either/Or" would be correct. But, if you take scale into consideration, as well as weathering; you should just paint them a dark, dirty, brownish- gray; to begin with. Also, pretty much in *all* the colors you are using, it wouldn't hurt to mix in a tad of brownish-gray into the base color. This will scale them down a bit, as well as "scale them together" (the tendency of colors, as the distance away increases, to converge to a neutral gray...).

Field drab should be a really ugly greenish brown.

They start out brown and should be brown but dirt will make them darker.