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Wider Wargaming => Painting & Modelling => Topic started by: Leon on 15 December 2018, 09:03:27 PM

Title: Korean War - Chinese and North Korea painting guides?
Post by: Leon on 15 December 2018, 09:03:27 PM
Hi guys, we've got a customer looking for some colour info for painting his Chinese and North Korean troops, are there any useful online resources?
Title: Re: Korean War - Chinese and North Korea painting guides?
Post by: Westmarcher on 15 December 2018, 09:28:18 PM
Hmmm. I dunno.

Has he tried the North Korean Embassy?
Title: Re: Korean War - Chinese and North Korea painting guides?
Post by: Leon on 15 December 2018, 10:00:18 PM
Quote from: Westmarcher on 15 December 2018, 09:28:18 PM
Has he tried the North Korean Embassy?

He checked the North Korean Wikipedia and it said something about 'only the glorious People's Republic of Korea has discovered colour, the rest of world only exists in shades of beige'.  I'm not sure how accurate that is though...
Title: Re: Korean War - Chinese and North Korea painting guides?
Post by: Westmarcher on 15 December 2018, 11:35:56 PM
 ;D ;D
Title: Re: Korean War - Chinese and North Korea painting guides?
Post by: Steve J on 16 December 2018, 08:06:16 AM
A quick Google search came up with the following, of which the first looks pretty damned comprehensive:

http://www.hat.com/ColorsKor.html (http://www.hat.com/ColorsKor.html)

https://www.paintinghistory.co.uk/product-page/the-wargamer-s-guide-to-the-korean-war-1950-53 (https://www.paintinghistory.co.uk/product-page/the-wargamer-s-guide-to-the-korean-war-1950-53)

Pinterest or Google images should provide lots of stuff as well I would have thought. Hope this helps?
Title: Re: Korean War - Chinese and North Korea painting guides?
Post by: Glorfindel on 16 December 2018, 09:12:06 AM
Thank you for the first link in particular - really helpful.


Phil
Title: Re: Korean War - Chinese and North Korea painting guides?
Post by: Steve J on 16 December 2018, 12:52:07 PM
You're welcome Phil :)
Title: Re: Korean War - Chinese and North Korea painting guides?
Post by: Leon on 16 December 2018, 05:06:09 PM
That's an excellent link, thanks for that Steve.  There's a conversion chart for Testors > Vallejo here: http://cdn.acrylicosvallejo.com/0049261608364909a238add9b4a53745/CC073-rev05.pdf