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Uniform color question

Hello all. I just got a set of the new Italeri 101st Airborne figures in 1/72, a re-release of the old Esci set. The quality is excellent but the color referrence seems inaccurate. For one thing, Model Master Field Drab is called for on this set, and another set I already own (British Infantry). However, the color square shown for each is majorly different. I bought the Field Drab since it was called for by name and item # for the first set, but on the 101st uniforms it looks almost like a cream color. Since the exact same name and item number are given for both sets, I must assume an error was made on the color referrence for the new set. I'll compensate, but have another question. The jump boots shown for the

101st are shown as being a leather brown color. I've got "Band of Brothers" and their boots were black. Which is correct? I've not begun painting them yet, but feel despite the excellent quality of the figures the paint guide is flawed. Thanks as always for your input, and I look forward to hearing from someone on this. Regards,

Randy IPMS Houston

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Randy Pavatte
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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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Bill Woodier

"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...).

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Greg Heilers

Field drab should be a really ugly greenish brown.

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

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Ron

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