Originally posted by Dux
One word about RLM colors: No actual records exist as to what the actual color mixes were. Most of what we have today is based upon interpretation of black and white photos and personal memory. If you feel a certain color on your skin needs to be more this or more that, go ahead. Nobody can prove you wrong. 
A good discussion of the variation in camouflage paint colors from different suppliers is found in
Camouflage of the Do 335: A Critical Re-evaluation, from the Hyperscale website. One of the paragraphs, in particular, illustrates the problem in designating particular colors:
"The original research on these colours (RLM 81 and 82)
was conducted in the 1970s by Smith and Gallaspy, Merrick and Merrick and Hitchcock and were based on analysis of paint samples from surviving aircraft, RLM document, and, company documents. When all these data were evaluated, there existed considerable confusion in precisely identifying these colours. Both colours 81 and 82 were discovered to have at least three descriptive names: Braunviolett / Dunkelgrün / Olivbraun and Hellgrün / Dunkelgrün / Lichtgrün respectively. Pointedly, these names were all sourced from aircraft manufacturers’ documents and no single RLM document has yet been discovered that unequivocally assigns an official name to colours 81 and 82." Another paragraph contains a statement that gives further information on the problem:
"During the early introduction phase of colours 81/82 the RLM was unable to provide genuine and approved paint samples of 81/82 to the contracted paint manufacturers. This resulted in paint cans that were identified as containing colours 81 or 82 but the actual paint inside had varying hue depending on the manufacturer."Also, the assignation of a particular color name to an RLM paint designation is specious and dependent on which aircraft and paint manufacturer you look at; the RLM had switched to an electromechanical records machine (the "Holerith-Maschine") for military logistics, and it could only operate on numeric designations, not names. RLM 82 was the formal designation of the paint color;
Dornier gave that color the name 'dunkelgrün'; other companies may have used a different name.
