German colour chart

Here is a list I found on the internet listing the colours the Germans used troughout the war.  Because of changing strategy, supply issues and different theatres, there is a lot of variation.  Sometimes equipment gets moved from one theatre to another without the opportunity for a professional repaint.  Sometimes supplies are scarce or missing, and the troops have to be inventive.  A missing camouflage colour is no exception, even more so near the end of the war.

RAL	Humbrol Vallejo	Remarks
1001	Elfenbein 121 Iraqi Sand 819	This colour was probably used to paint steel helmets, gas mask containers and other personal equipment used in Africa.Improbable vehicle interior colour for walls, bulkheads, etc., with the exception of hatch covers, which were camouflaged on both sides; it is too dark to be realistic in 1:72 scale.
7016	Anthrazitgrau 134 ...	Used for Luftwaffe ground vehicles and steel helmets.Vehicle base colour. All vehicles drafted in 1939 were painted in this colour.
3009	Oxidrot 70 Saddle Brown 940	Red oxide primer, 1939 – May 1945.Vehicle base colour, November 1944 – May 1945.
7009	Feldgrau Nr. 2 -111 German Fieldgrey 830	World War 1 Feldgrau may have been used on some vehicles in World War 2 also.
7010	Zeltgrau 161	Possible variant of World War 1 Feldgrau.
6006	Feldgrau Nr. 3 - 108	Wehrmacht Feldgrau used from 1935 – 1945 to paint ammunition boxes and equipment.
7033	Grüngrau 115	Interior armoured vehicle colour used on transmissions.
9002	Grauweiß 28+34 (White) Silvergrey 883	Most likely tank interior colour used by the Wehrmacht probably used for tactical signs and turret numbers.
7021	Dunkelgrau Nr. 46 Schwarzgrau 67 German Grey 995	Vehicle base colour 1940 – 1943. Popularly known as Panzergrau.
8002	Signalbraun 186 + 94 Flat Earth 143 Green Ochre 119	Disruptive pattern over Dunkelgrau, applied in irregular patches over the vehicle.
7011	Eisengrau 79 Dark Bluegrey 867	Used until the summer of 1942 by the Reichsbahn locomotive factories when RAL 7021 was not available. This may explain why some Tiger I tanks appear relatively light.
7017	Dunkelbraun Nr. 45 10 Chocolate Brown 872	Disruptive pattern over Dunkelgrau Nr. 46 (RAL 7021).
7028	Dunkelgelb 94 Green Ochre 119	Military standard colour from October 1942. Many shades and variations of this colour existed. Dunkelgelb nach Muster 83 Secondary standard colour from February 1943 – October 1944. Disruptive pattern over Olivgrün, November 1944 – May 1945. Dunkelgelb nach Muster 83 Disruptive pattern over Olivgrün, November 1944 – May 1945. Disruptive pattern over Rotbraun primer, November 1944 – May 1945. Dunkelgelb nach Muster 83 Disruptive pattern over Rotbraun primer, November 1944 – May 1945.
6003	Olivgrün 117	Disruptive pattern over Dunkelgelb, February 1943 – October 1944. Olivgrün 117 Vehicle base colour, November 1944 – May 1945. Disruptive pattern over Rotbraun primer, November 1944 – May 1945. Disruptive pattern over Panzergrau, Eastern Front 1942.
8017	Rotbraun (Schokoladenbraun) 160 Flat Brown 140	Disruptive pattern over Dunkelgelb, February 1943 – October 1944. Disruptive pattern over Olivgrün, November 1944 – May 1945. Vehicle base colour, November 1944 – May 1945.
8000	Gelbbraun (Grünbraun) 118+93 Brown Sand 876 German camo Orange Ochre 824	Vehicle base colour; many Panzergrau vehicles were repainted in this colour. When the paint chipped or was rubbed off it would show again underneath. Africa, March 1941 – April 1942.
7008	Graugrün (Khakibraun) 26 Green Brown 879	Disruptive pattern over Grünbraun, applied in irregular patches on 1/3 of the vehicle, Africa, March 1941 – April 1942.
8020	Gelbbraun 93 German camo Orange Ochre 824	Vehicle base colour; dominated the Sandgrau disruptive pattern, Africa, May 1942 – May 1943. Vehicle base colour; used in Crete.
7027	Sandgrau 187	Disruptive pattern over Gelbbraun, applied in irregular patches on 1/3 of the vehicle, Africa, May 1942 – May 1943. Disruptive pattern over Panzergrau, applied in wavy striped patterns or irregular patches over the vehicle, Crete, 1942.