"Vallejo equivalent for Humbrol's French Artillery Green?" Topic

Using Vallejo paints, I have been trying to find a very close match for one of Humbrol's older paints. The Humbrol color is "French Artillery Green" (MC21 or #179).

With Vallejo paints, is there a very good match without mixing?

There honestly isn't a Vallejo match. I had to go outside Vallejo to get a decent match.

@ History PhD, what did you eventually go for as a match?

I do use Vallejo for my French Napoleonic artillery but I have to mix and I don't honestly know whether it's an exact match. But for what it's worth, my recipe is as follows: base coat is "Yellow Green" mixed with plain black; then first highlight of neat "Yellow Green" and second highlight of "Yellow Green" mixed equally with "Dark Yellow".

Pics here (and elswhere on the "Napoleonic French" label): link

Giles

I use Stone Mountain Miniatures own brand. There's a good Artillery Ochre (C99).

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There's also an Artillery Green, which I've never bought, but I think it's a brighter Russian artillery type of green

Thanks for you help everyone. This was useful information.

I am sure it was not that long ago that we had this very discussion. Someone said 70.924 which (of course is Russian Uniform WWII).

All I can say is that I tried it and…well you know when you have that "Oh yes" moment? It needs a wash and highlighting, but it is how I imagined it.

I still have very thickened tin of Humbrol Artillery Green….it is what we grew up assuming was right.

DH – get that Humbrol on a piece of paper or similar and use it as a colour swatch to match it to modern ranges. How I wish I could get colour swatches for the entire "authentic" Naps range – then I would be a happy man. Some of the colours I see listed on paint charts are just plain wrong – don't get me started on what was suggested for Prussian dragoon blue.

I thought French artillery green was basically khaki. As I recall, the formulation (which someone posted here once) was lampblack and yellow ochre in linseed oil. So the result would be akin to 20th century camouflage olive green. Which is what I use, and no two gun carriages the same shade.