hi all, I would appreciate to hear your thoughts about what color should I use from AK Real Color. I open Pandora´s box hehehe. I know that color discussions are forever but I wonder if there is some light in this particular tank.
RC060 dunkelgelb? RC061 Dunkelgelb year 44?
I would go for the RC060 as always but being an 44 year vehicle I have this doubt.
I’d go with 060. They were upgraded after Kursk in October/November of 1943 and only designated as ‘Elefants’ in May 1944. I would lean towards them having been repainted in the prior shade when upgraded as that was available.
I would lean that way too. The upgrade include zimmerit, so I imagine a total repaint was required. I suspect they would have used the new standard unless a lot of older paint was kicking around
Thanks so much for the info!!! Great comparison. As the elefant was “zimmerited” after Kursk I should discard the Nach Muster RC059, right? Which is used until Kursk.
With this info the right color would be RC060 but it seems very palid for me so I tend to think that RC062 is the right one to use and is very similar to Tamiya XF60.
Although due to variance in monitor calibrations I cannot 100% vouch for the fidelity of the colors in this photo, these were all painted using the AK Reals. ‘523’ and the two yellow tanks in the foreground are all 060. The two in the back are early and late Afrika campaign colors.
‘523’ has also had a wash of Vallejo European Dust wash, which browned it out a bit but you can still see the dark yellow under it, especially in person.
In general they are great to use,they act the same as Tamiya paints.I thin them with regular lacquer thinner and they go down real nice with a hard finish no clogs and very low odor,and so many more colors then Tamiya.
The color palette on AK paints is much larger than the one for Tamiya. Plus, they behave almost exactly like Tamiya. I am currently transitioning from Tamiya to AK. I still have lots of Tamiya Acrylics left though.