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Japanese blast bags were standard off-white canvas. The canvas quickly darkened. I have seen a lot of illustrations and models with light tan colored blast bags. Blast bags on USN battleships and cruisers were rubberized canvas and painted black. Canvas on USN ships (boat covers, etc) was usually dyed the same dark blue as the decks.

Thank you very much for this list!

Take care,

Chris

You are very welcome!

Just 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, plus a mix for Boeing Gray.

The file name is the same so the links to the http://Box.com document don't break. But you can find the version date of June 24, 2023 on page 25.

https://app.box.com/s/istm0needbufr1micfa71wvcgyfppi0a

Time for a greatly revised document. Vallejo 'upgraded' their Model Color line in the fall of 2024. In the process they removed about 30 colors and added about the same number of new colors. As bad luck would have it, about 40 of my color mixes used Model Color colors that were cancelled. So I have had to go back and work out entirely new mixes for those colors. In the process I also saw opportunities with the new colors that Vallejo added to improve some other mixes either by creating a closer match and/or using simpler mixes. So there are 73 mixes that have been replaced and I also added two new colors (USAAF colors). The new mixes are in bold font.

Note that I did not match the new mixes to my old mixes. I went back to my original references, paint chips, etc to make the new mixes from scratch.

Let me know if you find a mix that doesn't make sense. As many times as I proofed this, it is so easy to transcribe a number or make a 'copy and paste' error. And if you think you have a better mix please let me know and I will give it a try.

Let's hope I don't have to do this again! I hope you enjoy it.

Links are the same so the file name is still for 2019, but the date on the document at the end of the references section is 2025.

https://app.box.com/s/istm0needbufr1micfa71wvcgyfppi0a