(Login baker24) Registered Users Posted Jun 17, 2009 10:55 AM
some of the last shipments of vehicles did NOT include some in Dark Yellow. The color itself was available before the Feb 1943 order for the new color scheme. But again, the Germans were still painting new vehicles in the first 1941 colors in late 1942, which is why Tom Jentz feels the 1942 colors of RAL 8020 Braun and RAL 7027 Grau were perhaps not commonly used. Too bad, because RAL 8020 Braun is a much better match for the pinkish sand found in the Western Desert of Egypt and Libya. There apparently was not a whole lot of really yellowish sand in North Africa. Tunisia turned out to be practically temperate, and much of it was covered in spring grass.