Using help from TMP, the Vietgaming Yahoo group, and by comparing my paints to the heap of actual equipment and uniform bits that I have, I came up with the folowing for my Britannia 20mm US Army figs:
Base Uniform – Vallejo 890 Reflective Green, drybrushed with a 50/50 mix of 890/886 Green Grey, followed by more drybrushing of lightened mix of above.
Packs and Web gear – Val 893 US Dark Green, drybrushed with a 40/60 mix of 893/886, followed by another drybrushing of a lightened mix.
Helmet with Mitchel Pattern camo – base color- 50/50mix of Val 891 Intermediate green/967 Olive with the following camo splotches; 50/50 val 891/892 Dark olive, Val 892 dark olive, Val 826 Cam Med Brown.
I found that I could not get a base color for the helmet that seemed "perfect' with the Vallejo paints (I probably tried a 100 or so evolutions of mixes), but looking at the fig from 10 inches away, the above gave a resonable representation.
I also made some uniforms and gear a little more faded than others by adding a touch of white/light grey/and or grey green to the colors as I went along.
The colors that I initially mixed, the "Base" colors above, were efforts to match uniform and equipment colors that had seen little wear or few washings.
I used black for my VC with gear generally colored to that of my PAVN forces.
I used the same sources for my PAVN troops, but had much less in the way of actual equipment/uniforms to work with:
Base Uniform – Modelmaster Forest Green, drybrushed with lightened MM For. Grn.
Webgear/packs – Vallejo Russian Uniform Green w/Val 886 Green-Grey drybrushing.
Other Equipment – Val 894 Russian Grn
I think my PAVN colors deviated a little from some of the online sources and suggestions, but I used actual equipment as my primary source and recommendations and books second. Hope this might be of some help.
