Originally Posted by rivetcounter

RAL7021 dunkelgrau or translated into English dark grey this was used by the Germans to paint everything from the 1930-s to 1943 when the base colour was changed to RAL7028, it’s people in the West especially modellers who insist on it being called Panzer grey, this then doesn’t make the term Panzer grey correct.
The same goes for the recent name for Wittmann AKA the Black Night this is a name invented in the last 10 years though there are many who insist that it was used in WWII which indeed it was not.