hi guys has any one got any suggestions for colours from the tamiya range for british dpm so far i,ve used buff, red brown , olive green and a vallejo black but dont look right to me any other suggestions its the standard nato forrest pattern i,m talking about

Try a lighter green, the green in DPM is almost a grass green shade



How about lightening the olive drab with some dark yellow or buff, till you get something like the shade in the picture above. The red-brown colour tends to differ quite widely from almost chocolate to a more brown shade.

BTW note that the colours are printed in a distinct sequence from light to dark, you can see this from observing which colours overlap each other

David

hi many thanks i,ll give that a go this evening cheers mate

Check out this article on Historicus Forma: Painting British Temperate DPM & Pakistani ‘Bhutto’ pattern Camouflage.

Written by award winning, Sri Lankan author David Blacker, who has extensive first hand knowledge of these camouflage patterns having worn them in the jungle battles of SL.

David predominantly uses Revell enamels, but I'm sure you can find a Revell-Tamiya conversion chart on IPMS Stockholm...

HTH

Rudi

hi many thanks it was the swirling pattern i was going wrong with very intresting article thankyou

That's great Rudi. I've been looking for something like this for a long time. I'm no artist, I couldn't even paint myself into a corner.

It's a pleasure, lads.

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Rudi