Color Help for Miniature Figure painting:Vallejo's and ACU

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Keifer0999
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Color Help for Miniature Figure painting:Vallejo's and ACU

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OK, a little off topic....I'm painting Warhammer 40,000 figures. The Imperial Guard are similar to the Colonial Marines in Aliens or the MI in the Starship Troopers movie....ordinary grunts with lasguns.

I want to paint them in the digital pattern of the new Army ACU camouflage. My problem is...I am colorblind, and can't match up the greens. One of the problems is that in every picture I have found on the net, the colors look to be a pastel green, a grey, and tan. IRL the colors are a light medium green, a pastel green, and tan.

So, if anyone has familiarty with the Vallejo color line, and the ACU, can you recommend to me the three colors closest to the ACU?

A hard task, but the modellers here are top notch, and I got some great answers for my decal problems.

Keith
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For GW Colors I think I would use

Catachan Green
Kommando Khaki
Desert Yellow
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