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The title pretty much, I moved to Historical Gaming but wanted to keep using my GW paints. I have found the right mix to be:

2 parts Iyaden Darksun
1 (small) part Dark Angels Green
2 parts Tau Sept Ochre

This gives a yellow with a green tinge that I feel is relatively appropriate (I may even upload some pictures of my poorly painted Panzer IV Hs) for the camo the Wehrmacht were meant to have used. Anyone have any other recommendations?

The GW colours are all standard colours given funny names.

There are websites where you can find colour equivalence charts giving cross references between GW, Vallejo and so on. It's pretty much possible to match any maker's colour with the equivalent of any other maker, including obscure makes like Gunze Sangyo.

It is also possible to look up official charts for historical colours in different services.

Of course, with the natural variation in pigments, weathering, and so on, it's more or less impossible to say a maker has got a "genuine" colour but it if it looks good, so what?

It is interesting that you put green into your mix. I have red-green colour vision defect so I don't really trust any colour I see.

I think I have used Desert Yellow before.

All the old yellow base paints like inyaden darksun and tausept orche