How to Use TAMIYA PAINT MIXES and RECIPES

Read Time: 10 minutes TAMIYA ACRYLIC PAINT APPLICATIONS Vehicles, Equipment, Uniforms, Fabric, Leather, Tools, Ammunition and Camouflage In the real world, there is always a dis­crep­an­cy between that of the­o­ry and one of prac­ti­cal­i­ty. For con­sis­ten­cy of colours and uni­form appli­ca­tions, var­i­ous colour stan­dards were cre­at­ed. In the­o­ry that is how it worked, how­ev­er in the real world neces­si­ty, sup­ply, field appli­ca­tions, envi­ron­men­tal effects, sun fad­ing and oper­a­tional con­di­tions such as dust, bat­tle­field debris, rain and soil con­di­tions cre­at­ing a nat­ur­al fil­ter effect alter­ing the under­ly­ing base colour. With TAMIYA Acrylic Paint Appli­ca­tions we have come up with many colour solu­tions for spe­cif­ic problems. There are two the­o­ries, the first being His­tor­i­cal­ly Accu­rate Colours, the sec­ond Opti­cal Match Sys­tem, cre­at­ing colours, hues, shades repli­cat­ing the actu­al colours as close as pos­si­ble for a pleas­ing his­tor­i­cal representation. For exam­ple, the colour­ful and cre­ative LUFTWAFFE of WW II cam­ou­flage schemes used RLM colours, the colour stan­dard cre­at­ed in 1927 by the Ger­man Reichs-Auss­chuß für Lieferbe­din­gun­gen und Gütesicherung (Impe­r­i­al Com­mis­sion for Deliv­ery Terms and Qual­i­ty Assur­ance) a stan­dard of forty colours under the name of “RAL 840”. By May 1945 there were 140 reg­is­tered colours in use by WEHRMACHT orga­ni­za­tions, HEER, LUFTWAFFE and KRIEGSMARINE. HOW TO PROPERLY USE TAMIYA PAINTS How to prop­er­ly use TAMIYA PAINTS is a tech­nique involv­ing a few sim­ple prac­tices. A moment of care­ful prepa­ra­tion pre­vents hours of pain fix­ing a botched paint job on the mod­el you spent hours and hours build­ing and craft­ing to your liking. An air­brush is a pow­er­ful tool, a joy to work with pro­vid­ing one under­stands air pres­sure, flow rate, noz­zle dis­tance, air­brush tips such as a Crown Tip, MAC Valve, Pre-set, nee­dle size, dou­ble action­ing, snap­ping on and off, hold­ing it prop­er­ly and most of all, clean­ing it. Learn­ing how to use an air­brush from the out­set […]
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TAMIYA ACRYLIC PAINT APPLICATIONS

Vehicles, Equipment, Uniforms, Fabric, Leather, Tools, Ammunition and Camouflage

Updat­ed 19:07

In the real world, there is always a dis­crep­an­cy between that of the­o­ry and one of prac­ti­cal­i­ty. For con­sis­ten­cy of colours and uni­form appli­ca­tions, var­i­ous colour stan­dards were cre­at­ed. In the­o­ry that is how it worked, how­ev­er in the real world neces­si­ty, sup­ply, field appli­ca­tions, envi­ron­men­tal effects, sun fad­ing and oper­a­tional con­di­tions such as dust, bat­tle­field debris, rain and soil con­di­tions cre­at­ing a nat­ur­al fil­ter effect alter­ing the under­ly­ing base colour. With TAMIYA Acrylic Paint Appli­ca­tions we have come up with many colour solu­tions for spe­cif­ic problems.

There are two the­o­ries, the first being His­tor­i­cal­ly Accu­rate Colours, the sec­ond Opti­cal Match Sys­tem, cre­at­ing colours, hues, shades repli­cat­ing the actu­al colours as close as pos­si­ble for a pleas­ing his­tor­i­cal representation.

For exam­ple, the colour­ful and cre­ative LUFTWAFFE of WW II cam­ou­flage schemes used RLM colours, the colour stan­dard cre­at­ed in 1927 by the Ger­man Reichs-Auss­chuß für Lieferbe­din­gun­gen und Gütesicherung (Impe­r­i­al Com­mis­sion for Deliv­ery Terms and Qual­i­ty Assur­ance) a stan­dard of forty colours under the name of “RAL 840”.

By May 1945 there were 140 reg­is­tered colours in use by WEHRMACHT orga­ni­za­tions, HEER, LUFTWAFFE and KRIEGSMARINE.

Messerschmitt Bf 109E-4 Trop of Jagdgeschwader 27 (27th  Fighter Wing) off North African Coast, Summer 1941
Messer­schmitt Bf 109E‑4 Trop of Jagdgeschwad­er 27 (27th Fight­er Wing) off North African Coast, Sum­mer 1941

HOW TO PROPERLY USE TAMIYA PAINTS

How to prop­er­ly use TAMIYA PAINTS is a tech­nique involv­ing a few sim­ple prac­tices. A moment of care­ful prepa­ra­tion pre­vents hours of pain fix­ing a botched paint job on the mod­el you spent hours and hours build­ing and craft­ing to your liking.

An air­brush is a pow­er­ful tool, a joy to work with pro­vid­ing one under­stands air pres­sure, flow rate, noz­zle dis­tance, air­brush tips such as a Crown Tip, MAC Valve, Pre-set, nee­dle size, dou­ble action­ing, snap­ping on and off, hold­ing it prop­er­ly and most of all, clean­ing it. Learn­ing how to use an air­brush from the out­set means you can accom­plish many tech­niques and effects impos­si­ble with an artist’s brush. Prac­tis­ing bad form using an air­brush will most like­ly pro­duce con­tin­ued bad results regard­less of how much you prac­tice. We know what we know, right? Learn­ing prop­er tech­nique and prac­tis­ing the tech­niques will do won­ders for your air­brush­ing with hours of enjoy­ment and plea­sure. The end result is work­ing with an air­brush is tremen­dous­ly reward­ing pro­duc­ing amaz­ing results.

In the fol­low­ing video on how to use TAMIYA PAINTS prop­er­ly, you will learn the fun­da­men­tals of achiev­ing a great fin­ish. When one encoun­ters prob­lems with acrylic paints we have found it has more to do with tech­nique and vis­cos­i­ty reduc­tion rather than the paint. Remem­ber, do not thin your paint with water and use only the man­u­fac­tur­ers rec­om­mend­ed thin­ners, X‑20A and TAMIYA LACQUER THINNER.

Expert mod­ellers rec­om­mend using TAMIYA AIRBRUSH CLEANER for the best results. Enjoy the show.

AFV EQUIPMENT & CAMOUFLAGE COLOUR FORMULATIONS

We endeav­our to com­pile a com­pre­hen­sive colour library of colour pig­ments using TAMIYA PAINT COLOURS, a high-qual­i­ty line of paints avail­able in both Acrylic and TAMIYA COLOUR lac­quer-based vari­ants, the lat­ter in aerosol cans.

Colour cal­i­bra­tions are defined with drops, an easy and pre­dictable stan­dard of mea­sure­ment, a colour cur­ren­cy for con­sis­tent change, in this case, con­sis­tent colour repro­duc­tion batch to batch.

Test the colour com­bi­na­tions to deter­mine if the hue, shade or tint is to your lik­ing or rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the authen­tic colour you are seek­ing. Keep in mind envi­ron­men­tal con­di­tions such as direct sun­light, angle of sun (morn­ing, mid­day, late after­noon, evening) shade, vary­ing degrees of over­cast cloud cov­er, fad­ing, inten­si­ty or thor­ough­ness of field appli­ca­tion, rain­fall, dust, dirt and grime accu­mu­la­tion, all act as fil­ters and wash­es chang­ing the orig­i­nal chroma.

Adding black or white dulls and mutes the colours and should only be used for shad­ing (black) mak­ing it dark­er or tint­ing (white) mak­ing it paler.

To keep the colour inten­si­ty alive, use the rep­re­sen­ta­tive colour to light­en or dark­en. To keep green alive, to dark­en it as in a shad­ow effect add blue (pure blue: X‑4, XF‑8), to make green lighter add yel­low (pure yel­low: X‑8, XF‑3). A lit­tle red (pure red: X‑7, XF‑7) will alter the green chang­ing it towards an olive-green.

In real life look­ing at an actu­al vehi­cle of any type or colour pho­to­graph our eyes play tricks on us as there are three things at work direct light­ing, indi­rect light­ing and radios­i­ty, the lat­ter where light bounc­ing around a vehi­cle will pick up ambi­ent colours from the pre­vi­ous sur­face adding it to the next.

For exam­ple, a new light brown ammu­ni­tion crate made with fresh­ly cut wood sit­ting on the back deck near the tur­ret of a T‑34 tank paint­ed with Russ­ian 4BO will pick up a green tinge mak­ing it look more like a Kha­ki Green by the sun­light reflect­ed off the turret.

Look­ing at the same crate from a dif­fer­ent angle will change the colour again. How­ev­er to our brain, we know what the colour of fresh­ly cut wood looks like from expe­ri­ence, there­fore we see fresh­ly cut wood colour when in real­i­ty it is more of a Kha­ki Green colour due to the effect of radios­i­ty. With aware­ness of a trained eye, one will be able to see the colour dif­fer­ences and distinctions.

RADIOSITY & SCALE EFFECT

Paint­ing our scale mod­els with­out apply­ing scale effect results in an over­ly dark, unre­al­is­tic colour. With the scale effect applied, we have a real­is­tic rep­re­sen­ta­tion as if com­pared side by side, our scale mod­el next to the actu­al vehi­cle. It has to do with reflect­ed light off the var­i­ous sur­face angles.

Think­ing about radios­i­ty and apply­ing dif­fer­ent colour inten­si­ties and hues as in the case of our wood­en crate exam­ple we can cre­ate a ‘real’ visu­al expe­ri­ence, cre­at­ing a new dynam­ic of authen­tic­i­ty to our model.

Does it need to be a com­pli­cat­ed and time-con­sum­ing process one may ask? The answer is no.

The use of an appro­pri­ate fil­ter colour such as TAMIYA CLEAR COLOURS or a wash alter­ing the chro­ma will suf­fice for that one spe­cif­ic radios­i­ty illu­mi­nat­ed sur­face, not the entire crate. For the remain­ing ver­ti­cal and hor­i­zon­tal crate, sur­faces use shad­ing, a gra­di­ent or blend­ing effect will work per­fect­ly. The result will be a con­vinc­ing real­is­tic effect.

TAMIYA COLOUR and CAMOUFLAGE APPLICATIONS

TESTED TAMIYA PAINT MIXES

TANKS

WWI British Tank Service Brown Colour

The TAMIYA Mix pro­duces a brown/khaki colour close­ly resem­bling the hues of orig­i­nal equip­ment dur­ing WWI. Giv­en the orig­i­nal Ser­vice Brown Colour for­mu­la­tion con­tains, white, burnt turkey (burnt ochre‽), lamp post black (not a true black) and raw lin­seed oil (yel­low­ish to yel­low-brown; medi­um maple syrup colour) by weight, batch results could vary from one to the next. Per­haps the bench­mark for con­sis­ten­cy was the cal­i­bra­tion stan­dard of “it’s close enough”.

XF-68 NATO Brown: 5
XF‑3 Flat Yel­low:   4
XF-69 NATO Black: 1

WWI British Land­ship Brown

Mk.1 to Mk.IV Tank Body Plate and Sponsons

XF-52 Flat Earth: 5
XF-55 Deck Tan: 5

X‑10 Gun Met­al
X‑11 Chrome Sil­ver
X‑12 Gold Leaf
XF-57 Buff
XF‑2 Flat White
XF-64 Red Brown
XF‑7 Flat Red
XF-84 Dark Iron

Soviet Russia 4B0 Green

XF-73 Dark Green (JSDF): 6
XF‑4 Yel­low Green: 4
XF-49 Khak: 3
XF-27 Black Green: 1 (deep­er green)

XF-17 Sea Blue; Shad­ing; drop by drop for desired colour con­trast
XF‑4 Yel­low Green: High­lights to light­en; drop by drop for desired colour contrast

Soviet Russia Protective Green

XF‑4 Yel­low Green: 5
XF-58 Olive Green: 5

Soviet Russia Light Sand or 4BG

XF-59 Desert Yel­low: 5
XF-62 Olive Drab: 5

Adjust colour drop by drop for the colour dom­i­nance shift for the desired hue.

Soviet Green Post War

XF-67  NATO GREEN

Desert Pink

Believed to be in use to end of the North African Cam­paign in May 1943, when it was replaced by Light Mud

XF‑2 Flat White: 5
XF-15 Flat Flesh: 5
XF-52 Flat Earth: 1

Light Mud

XF-55 Deck Tan: 4 (increase by 1 for more hue inten­si­ty)
XF-49 Kha­ki: 2
XF-66 Light Gray: 1

British SCC 15

Option 1
XF-61 Dark Green: 5
XF-62 Olive Drab: 2
XF‑3 Flat Yel­low: 2

Option 2
XF-81 Dark Green 2 RAF: 5
XF-58 Olive Green: 1
XF‑7 Flat Red: 11
XF-49 Kha­ki Seats, bags, etc.
XF-52 Flat Earth British and Ital­ian tanks
XF-57 Buff Cam­ou­flage on U.S. tanks
XF-58 Olive green U.S. tanks
XF-59 Desert yel­low British tanks seen in the desert
XF-60 Dark yel­low Ger­man tanks
XF-61 Dark green British or Russ­ian tanks & cam­ou­flage Ger­man tanks
XF-62 Olive drab U.S. tanks or oth­er mod­ern tanks
XF-63 Ger­man grey Ger­man tanks
XF-64 Red brown Ger­man and British tanks
XF-66 Light grey Inte­ri­or of tanks

FIGURES

XF‑1 Flat black Ger­man tank crews
XF-49 Kha­ki Japan­ese Army infantry on the South­ern Bor­der
XF-50 Field blue Russ­ian Air Force crew
XF-51 Kha­ki drab U.S. and Russ­ian Army infantry
XF-58 Olive green U.S. Army infantry
XF-59 Desert yel­low British Army infantry in Africa
XF-60 Dark yel­low Ger­man Africa Corps
XF-65 Field Grey Ger­man Army
XF-10 Flat brown Hair, leather and wood part of guns
XF-15 Flat flesh Face
XF-57 Buff Bags, etc.

JAPANESE AIRCRAFT

XF-11 JN green Upper side of the Navy plane
XF-12 JN grey Low­er side of the Navy plane
XF-13 JA green Upper side of the Army plane
XF-14 JA grey Low­er side of the Army plane
XF-16 Flat alu­minum Sil­ver fuse­lage with­out colour­ing
X‑13 Metal­lic blue Inte­ri­or of the plane

U.S. AIRCRAFT

XF‑2 Flat white Low­er side of the Navy plane
XF‑4 Yel­low Green Inte­ri­or of the plane
XF-16 Flat alu­minum Sil­ver fuse­lage with­out colour­ing
XF-17 Sea blue Cam­ou­flage on Navy plane
XF-18 Medi­um blue Cam­ou­flage on Navy plane
XF-19 Sky grey Over­all paint­ing of Navy plane
XF-53 Neu­tral grey Low­er side of Army plane
XF-62 Olive drab Upper­side of Army plane

BRITISH AIRCRAFT

XF-20 Medi­um grey Low­er side of the plane
XF-21 Sky Low­er side of the plane
XF-53 Neu­tral Grey Cam­ou­flage
XF-60 Dark yel­low Cam­ou­flage
XF-61 Dark Green Cam­ou­flage
XF-64 Red Brown Camouflage

SHIPS

XF‑9 Hull red Bot­tom of the hull
XF-25 Light sea grey Hull of British ships
XF-53 Neu­tral grey Light hull colour­ing
XF-54 Dark sea grey Dark hull colour­ing
XF-55 Deck tan Wood­en deck
XF-64 Red brown Linoleum decking

GERMAN AIRCRAFT

XF-22 RLM grey Inte­ri­or of the plane
XF-23 Light blue Low­er side of the plane
XF-24 Dark Grey Cam­ou­flage
XF-25 Light sea grey Cam­ou­flage
XF-26 Deep green Cam­ou­flage
XF-27 Black Green Camouflage

FS Colours – Aircraft

FS 30219 SEA Tan United States Military

To one pot of XF-59 (10ML) add 50 drops of XF-52 and 20 drops of XF-68.

FS 34092 Euro I Dark Green Mil­i­tary: Unit­ed States
To one pot of XF-26 (10ML) add 105 drops of XF-24 and 10 drops of XF‑8.
OR
XF-11 – J.N. GREEN: 3
XF-58 – OLIVE GREEN: 2

FS 36081 Euro I Gray

Air­craft: Unit­ed States From: Mod­el Art 236 – (F‑15)
XF-24 – DARK GREY: 9
XF‑1 – FLAT BLACK: 8
XF‑3 – FLAT YELLOW: 3

FS 34102 Medium Green

Mil­i­tary: Unit­ed States
To one pot of XF-67 add 45 drops of XF‑3 yel­low.
OR
XF-62 – OLIVE DRAB: 1
X4 – BLUE: 1

FS 35622 Israeli blue/Duck Egg Blue

Mil­i­tary: Unit­ed States
To one 10Ml pot of flat white, add 15 drops of X‑23 clear blue and 6 drops of X‑25
clear green

FS 35450 Air Superiority Blue

Air­craft: Unit­ed States
XF‑2 – FLAT WHITE: 85
X3 – ROYAL BLUE: 9
XF‑1 – FLAT BLACK: 5
XF‑9 – HULL RED: 1

FS 36231 Dark Gull Gray

Air­craft: Unit­ed States
XF-24 – DARK GREY:11
XF-20 – MEDIUM GREY: 9

FS 36440 Light Gull Grey

Aircraft: United States From: Tamiya Kit 61034: F4F Wildcat FS36440, ANA 620, or BS495.

Used on low­er sur­faces of all USN/USMC air­craft 1940-
1942. Ref: Offi­cial Mono­gram US Navy & Marine Corps Air­craft Colour Guide.
XF-19 – SKY GREY: 2 XF‑2 – FLAT WHITE: 1

FS 36320 Dark Ghost Gray

Air­craft: Unit­ed States
XF-66 – LIGHT GREY: 11
XF‑2 – FLAT WHITE: 7
XF-24 – DARK GREY: 2

FS 36375 Light Ghost Gray

Air­craft: Unit­ed States
XF‑2 – FLAT WHITE: 15
XF-24 – DARK GREY: 3
XF-66 – LIGHT GREY: 2

FS 30109 Roundel Red

Air­craft: Unit­ed King­dom From: Spit­fire Vb
colour used in British insignias from 1941 to 1946
XF‑7 – FLAT RED: 10
XF‑9 – HULL RED: 1

FS 35189 Non-Specular Blue-Grey

FS35189 or BS (British Stan­dard) 485 used on upper sur­faces of USN/USMC air­craft from 1941–1942. Ref: Offi­cial Mono­gram US Navy & Marine Corps Air­craft Colour Guide.
XF-18 MEDIUM BLUE: 3
XF‑2 – FLAT WHITE: 1

F‑15 Avionics Bay

Air­craft: Unit­ed States
XF-16 – FLAT ALUMINUM: 5
X23 – CLEAR BLUE: 3
X24 – CLEAR YELLOW: 2

RLM – Luftwaffe colours

RLM 02

XF-22 – RLM GREY: 1
XF-49 – KHAKI: 1
XF‑2 – FLAT WHITE: 1

RLM 02 – Grau

XF-22 – RLM GREY: 60
XF-52 – FLAT EARTH: 30
XF‑2 – FLAT WHITE: 10

RLM 70 – Schwarzgrun

XF-11 – J.N. GREEN: 90
XF‑1 – FLAT BLACK: 10

RLM 71 – Dunkelgrun

XF-11 – J.N. GREEN: 70
XF-60 – DARK YELLOW: 25
XF-10 – FLAT BROWN: 5

RLM 74

XF‑2 – FLAT WHITE: 2
XF-24 – DARK GREY: 2
XF-27 – BLACK GREEN: 1

RLM 75

XF‑2 – FLAT WHITE: 15
XF-24 – DARK GREY: 5
X27 – CLEAR RED: 1

RLM 76

XF‑2 – FLAT WHITE: 19
XF-19 – SKY GREY: 6
XF-23 – LIGHT BLUE: 3
X23 – CLEAR BLUE: 1

RLM 76 – Lichtblau

XF-19 – SKY GREY: 55
XF-23 – LIGHT BLUE: 30
XF‑2 – FLAT WHITE: 15

RLM 81 Braun-Violett

XF-61 – DARK GREEN: 7
XF-64 – RED BROWN: 3
XF‑2 – FLAT WHITE: 1

RLM 82 Hellgrun

XF-26 – DEEP GREEN: 8
XF-61 – DARK GREEN: 1
XF‑2 – FLAT WHITE: 1

RLM 82 Hellgrun

XF-26 – DEEP GREEN: 8
XF-61 – DARK GREEN: 1

WWII Allied Aircraft Colours

Azure

Air­craft: Unit­ed King­dom
XF-16 FLAT ALUMINUM: 2
XF‑2 FLAT WHITE: 10
XF-18 MEDIUM BLUE

WWII French Light Blue-Gray

Air­craft: France
XF‑2 – FLAT WHITE: 1
XF-25 – LIGHT SEA GREY: 2
OR
Air­craft: France
XF-18 MEDIUM BLUE: 1
XF-53 – NEUTRAL GREY: 2
XF‑2 – FLAT WHITE: 1

WWII French: French Kaki (Khaki)

Air­craft: France
XF-26 – DEEP GREEN:
OR
XF‑5 – FLAT GREEN: 1
XF-49 – KHAKI: 1

WWII French Interior

Air­craft: France
XF-18 MEDIUM BLUE: 1

Dark Earth

Air­craft: Unit­ed King­dom
XF-52 – FLAT EARTH: 1
XF-64 – RED BROWN: 1

Dark Green

Air­craft: Unit­ed King­dom
XF-58 – OLIVE GREEN: 1
XF-62 – OLIVE DRAB: 5

Fuel Tank Red

Air­craft: Unit­ed King­dom
XF‑7 – FLAT RED: 5
XF‑9 – HULL RED: 1

Interior Green (Navy)

Air­craft: Unit­ed States
XF‑3 – FLAT YELLOW: 1
XF‑5 – FLAT GREEN: 1

Japanese interior green

Air­craft: Japan
XF‑3 – FLAT YELLOW: 1
XF-21 – SKY: 1
XF-58 – OLIVE GREEN: 1

Mediterranean Dk Sea Blue

Air­craft: Unit­ed King­dom
X3 – ROYAL BLUE: 10
XF‑2 – FLAT WHITE: 1
X21 – FLAT BASE: 2
XF-19 – SKY GREY: 1

Mediterranean Lt Sea Blue

Air­craft: Unit­ed King­dom
XF-18 MEDIUM BLUE: 10
XF‑2 – FLAT WHITE: 1

Middle Stone

Air­craft: Unit­ed King­dom
XF-59 – DESERT YELLOW: 1
XF-60 – DARK YELLOW: 1

Non-Specular Blue-Grey

Air­craft: Unit­ed States
FS35189 or BS(British Standard)485 used on upper sur­faces of USN/USMC air­craft
from 1941–1942. Ref: Offi­cial Mono­gram US Navy & Marine Corps Air­craft colour.
XF-18 MEDIUM BLUE: 3
XF‑2 – FLAT WHITE: 1

Non-Specular Sea Blue

Air­craft: Unit­ed States

FS 35042 (Non-Spec­u­lar Sea Blue) is, of course, the colour of the top fuse­lage
sur­faces of USN air­craft after 1942.
XF-17 (Sea Blue) is a pret­ty good approx­i­ma­tion of this colour, but to my eye, it looks
a lit­tle too green, and maybe a lit­tle too dark.
XF-17 : 6
XF‑8 : 6
XF-53 : 1 (Maybe as much as 2 parts, but cer­tain­ly no more)

Fur­ther to this, the same colour, albeit in a glossy fin­ish, (Glossy Sea Blue, FS15042)
was used as the over­all colour of USN air­craft after 1943. I believe that the same fin­ish
could be achieved by using the above mix, and clear-coat­ing after­wards.
XF-17 – SEA BLUE: 6
XF‑8 – FLAT BLUE: 6
XF-53 – NEUTRAL GREY: 1

Cockpit colour (Nakajima)

XF-62 – OLIVE DRAB: 3
XF‑4 – YELLOW GREEN: 1

Spitfire interior
Military: United Kingdom

XF‑5 – FLAT GREEN: 1
XF-21 – SKY: 3
XF-65 – FIELD GREY: 1

Zinc Chromate

Air­craft: Unit­ed States
Approx­i­mate FS33481
XF‑3 – FLAT YELLOW: 2
XF‑5 – FLAT GREEN: 1

Weathering Mixes

Burnt steel

X11 – CHROME SILVER: 4
X12 – GOLD LEAF: 4
XF-64 – RED BROWN: 2

Brake Dust

XF‑1 – FLAT BLACK: 4
XF‑7 – FLAT RED: 5
X21 – FLAT BASE: 1

Cordite Stain

XF‑2 – FLAT WHITE: 6
XF-63 – GERMAN GREY: 2
X21 – FLAT BASE: 1

Fresh Blood

X27 – CLEAR RED: 8
X25 – CLEAR GREEN: 1
X7 – RED: 1

Normandy Dust

XF-52 – FLAT EARTH: 5
XF‑2 – FLAT WHITE: 3
XF-64 – RED BROWN: 2

Petrol Stain

X22 – CLEAR: 6
X24 – CLEAR YELLOW: 2
X19 – SMOKE: 2

Road Dirt

XF-52 – FLAT EARTH: 6
XF‑1 – FLAT BLACK: 3
X21 – FLAT BASE: 1

Tank Track Colour

XF-64 – RED BROWN: 5
XF‑2 – FLAT WHITE: 3
XF-52 – FLAT EARTH: 1
X21 – FLAT BASE: 1

Tire Black

XF‑1 – FLAT BLACK: 1
XF-63 – GERMAN GREY: 1
XF-64 – RED BROWN: 1
X21 – FLAT BASE: 1

Vietnam Red Dust

XF-52 – FLAT EARTH: 5
XF‑7 – FLAT RED: 4
X21 – FLAT BASE: 1

Various Military Colours

Can­vas

Gen­er­al: Unit­ed States From:
XF-49 – KHAKI: 1
XF-65 – FIELD GREY: 1

Olive Drab

Mil­i­tary: Unit­ed States
World War II US Army Olive Drab. Scale effect for 1/35th scale.
XF-51 – KHAKI DRAB: 45
XF-62 – OLIVE DRAB: 45
XF‑2 – FLAT WHITE: 10

Periscope Green

Paint Periscope first with Flat alu­minum, then give three coats of the fol­low­ing mix,
allow­ing time to dry for each coat:
X23 – CLEAR BLUE: 1
X25 – CLEAR GREEN: 2

Soviet Olive Green (Modern)

Mil­i­tary: Rus­sia From: Cus­tom Mix
XF-58 – OLIVE GREEN: 10
XF‑2 – FLAT WHITE: 2
XF‑3 – FLAT YELLOW: 1

Armour Inte­ri­or Green

From: Tamiya M2 Bradley
XF‑5 – FLAT GREEN: 4
XF‑2 – FLAT WHITE: 1

MERDEC Colours – US Army Camo from the 1980s

MERDC Brown

Mil­i­tary: Unit­ed States
XF‑2 – FLAT WHITE: 1
XF-64 – RED BROWN: 1

MERDC Dark Green

Mil­i­tary: Unit­ed States
XF‑5 – FLAT GREEN: 1
XF-11 – J.N. GREEN: 1

MERDC Forest Green

Mil­i­tary: Unit­ed States
XF‑5 – FLAT GREEN: 1
XF-13 – J.A. GREEN: 1

MERDC Light Sand

Mil­i­tary: Unit­ed States
XF‑2 – FLAT WHITE: 1
XF-57 – BUFF: 1

MERDC Loam Green

Mil­i­tary: Unit­ed States
XF‑5 – FLAT GREEN: 1
XF-57 – BUFF: 3

MERDC Pale Brown

Mil­i­tary: Unit­ed States
XF-52 – FLAT EARTH: 1
XF-57 – BUFF: 8

MERDC Pale Green

Mil­i­tary: Unit­ed States
XF-65 – FIELD GREY: 1

MERDC Sand

Mil­i­tary: Unit­ed States
XF‑2 – FLAT WHITE: 1
XF-57 – BUFF: 1

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Inclement Weather Cancellation
Club Meeting scheduled for today, Dec 15, 2022 is cancelled due to adverse weather and travelling conditions.