Okay, just hadda do it in case anyone didn’t follow my Michael Schenker reference. Sorry!
And surely everyone will know the intro.
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Always favored Rudolf.
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Of course, Michael played on the first Scorpions and is credited for some solos on “Lovedrive.”
But as a lifelong musician, I can tell he did more on that album than is credited.
One of Rock’s greats — who was asked to join The Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, and others.
Yes, and that’s one of my favorite albums of all time, from any band. Alway Somewhere, Holiday, and the very reggae-like Is There Anybony There?
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Gosh this discussion is frustrating!
By the end we are again talking of questions and making statements already covered in the earlier parts of the thread “we ARE going in circles.”
I will compliment @Damraska for showing us his “spoon results” that illustrate both the Dark Yellow Mustard and the three varying shades of RAL 7028 that changed formulas as the war progressed. (Either by conscious choice on the part of the German high command or dictated by the unavailability or cost of certain paint pigments.)
Then I would also refer you to Charles Lemons’ (Patton Museum) comments that color variations were to be found within the SAME vehicle during restoration due to different sub-contractors procuring their paints from different sources. (Back then nobody had a digital color analyzer that would spit out a precise color mix formula based on a given sample.)
So, there were historical variations. There will be variations. As modelers we should expect variations and even welcome them.
To each his/her own. Enjoy your modeling experiences.
Live long and prosper!
From one of the Panzer Colors books, I remember a description of, shortly after the order making Dunkelgelb the base color, that the Olivgrun and Rotbraun paints were distributed as pastes that the units were expected to thin with fuel for spraying, but that the actual practice was to use a variety of thinners and application methods, so that the Rotbraun could come out as anything from chocolate brown to brick red, depending on how the unit thinned and applied the paint.
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Says it all, right there!
Ken
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Yes, I agree that would certainly affect the color, but what about factory-applied camo? The paint consistency would be more controlled. It might be possible that the paint, both in field applications, and factory applied, started off the same, but could have been much more dilute depending on the medium used in the field, as opposed to that used in factories being of a more concentrated mix (or at least, mixed with the proper solvents).
In a nutshell, the solvents used, and methods of application, could affect the intensity and hue of a color.
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He’s a legendary guitarist. Started out ( I think) with the Scorpions - his brother is Rudy Schenker - then quit and went on to other stuff .
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And this is what we in the intelligence community call circluar reporting. 
Or as Paska shared with us when this thread began:
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Hmmm…I was actually referring to Rotbraun, and Olivgrun, but I get your point! 
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Egg’s actly!
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Dear AB
Id like to try your idea, but my wife does nothing but complain of the money I spend on modeling and supplies so that’s not a workable idea for me. genius, though
Dan
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Let’s call it “Uncle-gelb”
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Take up drinking in strip clubs and she’ll quickly come around to modelling as a cheap hobby! 
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good point. I caught much static on this topic mostly because i was using Tamiya dark yellow and suddenly a dark yellow 2 appeared. Question: why? Answer: duck. Lots of overlapping fields of fire came down. But some wiser people declared that there was in fact some question as to what the colors were. Paska adduced a trove of contemporaneous documents which proved that there was much more to it than the color of a modern bottle. As for your quotation: I believe it comes from Proverbs or Psalns
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One more thing: one can measure the sheer volume of retorts to determine how much gravitas the proposition contained. My query was just as honest as yours yet……
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Ah, but that assumes that the rest of us are in the same mood all the time.
The volume and “quality” of the responses depends on who is bored or has
time to spare, not busy with something more interesting, exhausted from
a previous “battle”, has someone else already said whatever I was going
to say et.c.
Way to many random factors to get any reliable results …
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