Some photos for you guys, and a question….what are the colors used here? I suffer from a bit of color blindness, some oranges look red to me….in these, I’m having a bit of a bad time with the darker camouflage color, it looks like a dark brown to me and a medium green in other photos…so what is the accurate color to use? It’s for my model….
Mark
By: Corsair166b - 12th March 2005 at 05:21
Found the Humbrol at my hobby store (much to my surprise!) but instead got the Testor’s European Earth Green (or something like that) and the Hurricane is now painted, and may I say looking good….trumped up some decals from a P-40 kit to put on it (K-HR) since the kit did’nt come with any kind of useable letters, and I think she looks good….just details to take care of now, putting on the glass and landing lights, touching up bits of paint…then ‘dirtying it up’, oil smears and mud and wear and chipped paint, my favorite part of the process….THEN maybe take some photos and see what you lot think…
Mark
By: coanda - 11th March 2005 at 19:20
i think humbrol 90 is too bright….if you can get a hold of xtracrylix stuff in the us dont hesitate to buy……..but i hear gunze sangyo is all the rage…….they do do exceedingly good paints tho………
By: ...starfire - 11th March 2005 at 13:14
I usually paint my early-war RAF-planes with Humbrol-colour: 30 (green) and 29 (brown), sky should be Humbrol 90.
By: Mark V - 11th March 2005 at 08:48
Hi Mark, thes aircraft are in the 1940/41 temperate scheme consisting of Dark Earth and Dark Green upper surfaces with Sky undersides.
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