I have spent about 7 years painting color chips of Vallejo paints on white styrene plastic and then comparing them to the WWII naval color paint chip sets printed by Snyder and Short and many book references. It seems a lot of miniature painters like the Vallejo line of paints, and it is certainly extensive. This project started from a similar list I found on the Internet, but only had some of the Royal Navy colors. The link to the .pdf is below.
Enjoy.
Updated 6-11-2021
Added Regia Aeronautica. All major WWII Air Forces now included.
I have updated the tables with new colors for The Netherlands Navy matched to the book "Dutch Warships of World War II" and some tweaks to the alternate Royal Navy colors based on Royal Sovereign research done by Brown et. al. and Duff. I also corrected a few other colors here and there and added a few colors scattered throughout.
The filename is the same (2019) to keep the link the same in the Box.com folder. But you can see the current version date of June 11, 2021 on page 25.
Any good source for the Royal Navy paint schemes? Lots of info out there on the US Navy.
There are several good, but expensive books that cover this. The RN specified colors, but allowed individual captains to create their camouflage patterns. So they are very ship specific until 1944 when an "Admiralty Standard" scheme was enacted. But even then a lot of ships kept their existing camouflage until the end of the war.
Browse around this site. It is the most current that I know about on the web.
I have updated the Vallejo color match tables again. This one is a mainly tweaks to some of the RN and USN ship color formula's, a few aircraft color tweaks, and I added "bonus" mixes for modern USN Haze gray, deck gray, and flight deck gray. I also added a mix for "Boeing gray" that is used on airliners for my own modeling use. The existing links above and in the Goldmine Wagon will give you the latest version.
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I made a few more tweaks and additions. I added Norfolk 65A anti-fouling red. I needed it for a model I am working on! The miniatures I paint are all waterline so this is the first time this color came up for me. I tweaked Grigio-azzurro Chiaro (Light Blue-Grey for submarines) for the Regia Marina, and Kure Naval Arsenal Gray for the IJN. In aircraft I tweaked RAF Sky Type S (duck egg blue), and RAF light slate gray. By popular demand (and for my model project) I also added the post war USN ship colors for Haze Gray, Deck Gray, and Flight Deck Gray.
The file name is the same so the links to the Box.com document don't break. But you can find the version date of June 24, 2023 on page 25.