thanks dave. there are quite a few camouflage schemes that i can choose from. in the early stages of the war they only used a fixed set of colors but as the war progressed and supply lines were cut, they started using anything that was available and kind of matched the original colors.

i was thinking of using material_x. with that i can create the dull powdery look but still with get a bit of metallic shine. what do you think?