Very nice Peter. The jacket colour is very good. The beauty of AfrikaKorps figures is you can paint the jackets almost any colour yo want. I have seen dozens of original ones in every colour from olive green o almost white.
John.
Stuart - Thank you. It's a bit one step forwards, two backwards at times.
Richard - Danke Schoen Bruder.
Steve - I used Vallejo Medium Camo Olive mixed with Off White. DAK jackets were never the yellow of the box art, rather starting off as a dark grey/green olive and fading to a whitish colour. I've tried to depict one in mid fade. On to the cap and binoculars today - I'm going to leave the headphones and wiring until last as a separate job.
John - Yes, a whole range of options for DAK uniform colours and the opportunity to experiment a bit. The cap will be done in more yellowish tones.
Thanks Andrew. You have a fairly free hand with DAK colours, especially when depicting sun-bleached clothing.
I've now got the cap and binoculars done:
The cap was very fiddly to paint, and in fact took as long as the jacket. I used Vallejo Japanese Uniform as the base, which is in fact a deep yellow ochre and nothing like any Japanese uniforms I've seen.
The final stage is the painting and fitting of the headphones and the addition of the various bits of wiring.