"Assigning Colors to WWII Nations" Topic

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Editor in Chief Bill	05 May 2016 5:35 p.m. PST
If you were to assign a color to each nation, what would it be? For example, the Soviet Union usually gets red, and Germany gets black…
mwindsorfw	05 May 2016 5:59 p.m. PST
UK & Commonwealth tan US olive or dark green (Marines) France blue Japan mustard or dark yellow Germany gray or black (SS) USSR red or gold (guards) Finland white I've seen Italy as a variation of gray, tan, and green in games Minor nations either look a bit like their allies or a national color (light blue for Greece, orange or Netherlands)
Extra Crispy	05 May 2016 6:54 p.m. PST
Soviet Union: Ebon Germany: Nightshade USA: Payne's Gray UK: Flat Black Italy: Gloss Black France: Crow's Wing Japan: Tar
miniMo	05 May 2016 7:12 p.m. PST
Axis & Allies colours = USSR is Brown.
tberry7403	05 May 2016 7:13 p.m. PST
Soviet Union: Ebon Germany: Nightshade USA: Payne's Gray UK: Flat Black Italy: Gloss Black France: Crow's Wing Japan: Tar
Korvessa	05 May 2016 8:47 p.m. PST
Crispy: Deep Raven Deep Jet Mars Black
Wargamer Blue	05 May 2016 10:29 p.m. PST
Germany – grey Japan – White Italy – green USA – olive green Soviets – brown Comminwealth – tan France – blue
Martin Rapier	05 May 2016 11:02 p.m. PST
My Germans get stored in black boxes, Russians in red boxes and allies in blue. Otherwise I defer to the colours used in Third Reich.
normsmith	05 May 2016 11:09 p.m. PST
Airfix probably established this in the 60's and 70's and we have either found it too hard or never a a great enough need to move away from that colour coding.
kabrank	06 May 2016 2:34 a.m. PST
Martin My boxes are similar except that Brits get Imperial Purple and Americans Blue
Rudysnelson	06 May 2016 10:22 a.m. PST
I like mwindsorfw list. If these are counters, white would be a good minor axis base color with other secondary printing colors changing with each nation. If you do black with Germans, then grey for the Italians. In regards to the allies, doing any unusual color such as orange or pink with the other color being China.
ScottS	09 May 2016 6:41 p.m. PST
Blue = USA Black = Germany Orange = Japan Red = Great Britain Crimson = Canada Scarlet = Australia Garnet = New Zealand Ruby = Indian Empire Gold = France Silver = Italy Olive = Spain Green = Mexico Brown = Netherlands East Indies Purple = USSR Lemon = Portugal Citron = Brazil Yellow = China Indigo = Iceland Emerald = Erie Gray = Azores Tan = Cuba These were the colors used by the US Naval War College in the inter-war era.
Russ Lockwood	11 May 2016 12:29 p.m. PST
If you want a lot of color combinations, the old GDW/GRD Europa board wargames had a specific list of counter colors (color numbers on color counter) for all countries of WWII. Some were quite creative.

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