With the conflict in Georgia I noticed that the BMD-2 and BTR-80's were painted in a camo scheme that appeared to be lighter than the Dark Soviet Green. Can anyone give me a good match for the Green and Sand color. Any acrylic manufactor is fine( Tamiya, Model Master,Life Color. Vallejo) Sorry for all the paint questions but I would like to do some modeling this week end. Greenhills Tamiya 10ml Bottle of Acrylic Paint – Brown (JGSDF) XF-72 – C53 Log in for wholesale price Here goes. These are taken from a Word document that I hand out when I give a PowerPoint presentation of Japanese Naval Aircraft colors.

Greenhills Tamiya 10ml Bottle of Acrylic Paint – Dark Sea Grey XF-54 – C598 Log in for wholesale price Another point is that kit that has come from a base workshops after a major overhaul and repaint had a slightly different hue of green that didn't quite match the painting we did at unit level, this is due to it being done in a professional paint shop and being applied with better quality spray guns and being dried in a constant temp. We could never match this at unit level. Greenhills Tamiya 10ml Bottle of Acrylic Paint – Bronze X-33 81533 – C534 Log in for wholesale price The paint covers well, flows smoothly with no blushing or fading, and can be blended easily. Each bottle of the Tamiya Acrylic Paint Mini Series contains 10ml of paint. When I go with Tamiya Field Grey TS-78 and Vallejo Gunship Green 70.895 (which seem to be in good balance) I can not use TS-78 for the helmet as well. So I would use my custom mix (Vallejo German Uniform 70.920, Vallejo Gunship Green 70.895 and Vallejo White 70.951). But I think that that it would be too bright in comparison to the Tamiya Field Grey. When I don't mix the colors and use Vallejo German Uniform 70.920 only it looks almost as dark as the Armor and it doesn't look green at all but more like dark grey. So that's the reason why I brightened it up.There are a couple of "Humbrol to Vallejo" conversion charts available, but there isn't any equivalent of Humbrol 78 from Vallejo. But it's one of the most important colors, since you need it for the cheeks and dome of the helmet. Some people use Vallejo German Uniform. I painted some test objects and compared it side to side to Humbrol 78. German Uniform looks nothing like Humbrol 78: It's way too dark and it's doesn't even look very green to me. I looked at some other peoples paint jobs and original reference photos and tried to mix my own base color which also differs from Humbrol 78. I tried to achieve something like a slight "mint green". See the pictures above.

Greenhills Tamiya 10ml Bottle of Acrylic Paint – Desert Yellow XF-59 – C592 Log in for wholesale price Maybe my eyes deceive me, but from what I can tell from reference photos the green tones of the costume should look like this: Greenhills Tamiya 10ml Bottle of Acrylic Paint – Flat Flesh XF-15 81715 – C581 Log in for wholesale price

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Mix matched to a cloth artifact from Zero BII-120, landed on Niihau Island, Dec. 7, 1942. Likely also to match cloth on control surfaces of AI-154 shot down at Ft. Kamehameha and BI-151 crashed at Kaneohe NAS the same day. Objects in this photo show far greater color resolution to be colorized, IMHO. I have several different BW images of this Jagdtiger, I have never seen this photo as a BW image, from which someone would have used to colorize into this image.

Greenhills Tamiya 10ml Bottle of Acrylic Paint – Clear Yellow X-24 – C544 Log in for wholesale price Thanks guys, i wish I could repay you for the wealth of information here, but I have limited knowledge in this area. I can only hope that this post will help someone else who may have this question in the future. Greenhills Tamiya 10ml Bottle of Acrylic Paint – Clear Orange X-26 – C556 Log in for wholesale price As for the SCC2 thread, I've attempted to use the Mike Starmer Tamiya mix to compare with OTC paint offerings. This is something that model paint manufacturers might like to take on board. I bought an Ammo MiG desert Sherman colour set, for convenience more than anything else. It said it contained #61 Light Stone BSC61 and #217 Dark Slate BSC34 but the bottles inside of the same codes were in fact generic Warm Sandy Yellow and RLM79 Grau!! One code, 2 names..............

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This British Wartime colour was used from April 1944 and was intended to closely match US Olive Drab to avoid the need to repaint US vehicles used by British and Commonwealth forces. It is generally described as being somewhat greener than Olive drab. Bear in mind that all of these mixes were matched to extant artifacts. Have they changed in 70 years? Yes, but they are from protected areas or were souvenired and stored away from direct light since the war. In service, all coatings weather rapidly. I am providing you with a starting point. If you don't like the appearance of a mix, modify it until it suits you. After all, you are building the model to please yourself. Still working on exactly what I want to do with my MLRS. I think I'll go with the camo pattern as depicted in this photo. Greenhills Tamiya 10ml Bottle of Acrylic Paint – Chrome Silver X-11 – C514 Log in for wholesale price Greenhills Tamiya 10ml Bottle of Acrylic Paint – Dark Yellow XF-60 81760 – C597 Log in for wholesale price