He’s in danger of becoming a viral meme, in the same calibre as Chuck Norris!
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There are two lines missing:
He is watching You
He is waiting for You to make a mistake
He also wears a suit and tie and drives a series 10 Cadillac
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Oh there are many. many more - it was just time to take Molly for her third walk of the day.
Better the one you know than the one you don’t.
You can be between him and the deep blue sea.
He may care. (I guess this implies he may not)
He can be lucky.
He made me do it.
She can get you from behind.
Or you can tell him to get behind you.
Idle hands are his playthings.
You can play his advocate.
But no matter what, you have to give him his due.
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“Changes in colour perception increase as we age. The eyes’ functional ability wanes as we get older, the same way the central nervous system’s storage, receptive and analytical capacities do. One of the primary reasons our colour vision gets worse with age is because the lenses in our eyes become yellowish, which appears like looking through a yellow filter. This distortion can disrupt yellow and blue vision, preventing us from differentiating yellow from green and blue from purple in some situations. This misperception is particularly common with faded or washed-out colours.”
(Edit - I remember learning years ago that the ageing brain does have the capacity to compensate for the yellowing effect…but it can only be an approximation - how does the brain know what it should be seeing anyway?)
One of many random quotes found after Googling “Colour perception”. So the only modelmakers likely to be seeing things as they really are would be under 20 years old. The rest of us should just back off because we have imperfect vision to varying degrees. Just paint for your own eyes. Besides…
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Building on what @Dioramartin Tim mentioned, there are some folks with Tetrachromacy Color vision.
One study suggested that 15% of the world’s women might have the type of fourth cone whose sensitivity peak is between the standard red and green cones, giving, theoretically, a significant increase in color differentiation. Another study suggests that as many as 50% of women and 8% of men may have four photopigments and corresponding increased chromatic discrimination compared to trichromats.
Need help with colors?
Very possible one’s wife, girlfriend or female friends maybe able to more accurately discern color accuracy than the typical model builder.
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Some just want positive comments, others just on the overall build, on some forums woe be tide if you dare to point out an error. British IRR green and black is another can of worms, as it comes down to how it was applied, thinned (if at all) and what even it was thinned with, not to mention the polish for inspections, resulting in a vast array of hues and tones.
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Understand the weariness of some of the senior members on here when the same questions come up, but the OP is a newb (and so am I) and it was a genuine question with genuine curiosity behind it.
Apologies if things we newbies ask or have queries about sometimes have been done in the past.
Someone wiser than me once said - “there is nothing new under the sun”. And that includes debating what colour the sun is. Hahahahaha 
Happy Friday guys - have a great day.
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My Mrs is a handy sounding board for things like that - she’s got much better colour perception and sense of the aesthetic than I have. I sometimes ask her whether she thinks a certain piece of stowage or something looks better with or without. She’s also good with faces - I struggle with faces in 1/35 and often ask her to give me feedback. It was her who told me that my skin tones are too yellowy and sallow, and that the colours I was using were not natural. At first I didnt get it but actually she was 100% right: I was so focused on getting the gradients right, making the shadows look right, blending the colours in, getting the highlights smooth etc that I lost track of the fact that skin is pink not beige. In amongst the eye-rolling, shrugging, venomous glances when I get a model delivered and general lack of appreciation, she does come up with some helpful info and views sometimes.
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Except for the current fashion in ladies makeup (war paint) …
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Maybe the short answer to "Dunkelgelb: is it a Chameleon paint color? (sic) is: YES!!!
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I don’t mind an old question popping again. New information comes to light, new kits are brought out, and new techniques are developed all the time. I just find it funny that after a bit of a drought you can have two or three of the same topic running concurrently.
There ws a time when a certain moderator would combine these all into one, but I’m fairly certain this topic doesn’t interest him. 
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It’s a good sign modeler’s are interested enough to ask questions related to modeling.
While an occasional grumpy old salt gets their backsides chaffed by the “color” question, it’s a perfectly reasonable question for a novice AFV modeler’s to ask. There isn’t a pinned topic addressing the issue on the Armor forum so it’s more than fair game for someone to ask about.
It’s just like on the car forums where folks ask what cam for my set up. Reasonable question that most folks ask when new to that hobby or forum.
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That still shows up on the Sportster forum as well. You can’t just throw the tallest/longest duration cam in a motor and expect good results - you’ve got to worry about your carb, your exhaust, your air intake. I imagine car guys have to consider things like that as well.
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Using the search function at the top of the page by your user control buttons is usually a good way to start asking questions here.
A couple of minutes of research on previous threads containing the some of the same subject material might actually give you the answer your question without having to wait or at least it might help you frame your question towards the essential aspect that you really want to know that hasn’t been previously discussed.
(For example, there are at least 13 other threads - now 14 - that discuss Dunklegelb in some way or another. You could scan through all of them in maybe 5 or 10 minutes to see if your question has been asked and answered before or to decide that you have a new question that further one of those prior discussions.)
Appending your NEW question to an existing thread is the best way to build on the collective knowledge and helps others in the future to find more of the topic information in one place than starting a new thread.
However, if you don’t search for answers already given, or if you start entirely new threads about the same basic topic by asking the same questions already discussed, you should expect that there will be a bit of “topic fatigue” leading to some degree of “snarky posts” and segues and diversions.
Just ignore the posts that you don’t like but consider those kinds of posts as indicators that perhaps you should modify the way you ask questions in the future (such as, search first and craft new, specific questions asked in existing threads about that same topic).
It’s not the end of the world in any case but working within the system usually obtains better and faster results. It’s simply more efficient. As the saying goes, “Coporate and graduate.”
And, yes, for what it’s worth, I did find the whole “Robin segue” amusing and entertaining (but the Dunklegelb discussion would still have been better added to one of the already existing threads).
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I often find the diversions more interesting than the original topic.
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Indeed, so do I!
They don’t advance the OP’s quest for an answer, but they’re still “informative” and “educational” in a “who’s who at the zoo” kind of way…
(At least nobody’s cleaning out anyone else’s metaphorical wall locker and dumping his ruck out in the hallway… LOL!)
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That’s not how I roll. When I was a drill sergeant, I told the recruits not to preset the combinations on their wall lockers, and if they had a key lock, not to hide their keys in whichever pair of boots, they were not wearing that day, or their PT shoes. if I came in and found a preset combination and opened their locker or found their key rather than dumping out the wall locker we were just stuffed their entire mattress inside of it.
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Some shake hands with him.
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Some work for him.
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