German 5cm tank gun HE colour?

[Tony Williams]

As the heading says....I have a 5cm L/42 HE round with the projectile (re)painted black. Is this the correct colour or should it be yellow?

Thanks for any help.

 

[hasag]

The 5cm HE
I think they are green with black letters on marcage.
regards

 

[munfrosch]

olive/fieldgrey i would say

 

[Yodamaster]

The 5cm HE
I think they are green with black letters on marcage.
regards

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Badly I have no drawings of a 5 cm HE, but when I look on the other calibers, I agree with hasag !
Green/fieldfrey with black markings.


Yoda

 

[Tony Williams]

Thank you gentlemen.

I have to say I am surprised - most German WW2 HE projectiles I've seen (of any calibre) seem to be basically yellow.

 

[Yodamaster]

Commonly, the yellow explosives shell are used by the Kriegsmarine.
"Land forces" used a grey/green color with black markings.


Yoda

 

[Tmine35]

And AA (Flak). Forgot to add Luftwaffe as well.

 

[Tietrack]

I have a 2 CM (20MM) Flak 38 round with original yellow painted projectile.

 

[StielGr]

Don't forget the 3,7cm Pak HE projectiles which are grey/silver.

 

[EOD]

Do not let us forget that all 3 (or 4) German services used different color codes. Some were identical and quite some NOT. So do not apply 1 scheme too all German ammunition as it will not work.

 

[bdgreen]

Maybe this is of some use.

 

[AZ23-28]

5cm Pak Spr. Gr. is RAL 6006

 

[pzjgr]

5cm PaK HE...definitely feldgrau/green with black lettering...

 

[Tony Williams]

Thank you all - but unless someone knows of a paint in the right colour which can be bought in very small quantities, I think it might be better for me to leave it black!

 

[EOD]

Tony, try a shop for scale modeling and tell them what you need (above mentioned was RAL 6006). They have tiny paint cans. One will be enough to repaint your shell.