WWII RN colors and acrylics

[mister me]

Hi

Having changed to acrylics since a few years, and after having made a lot of researches, I still did not found anything really accurate to match WWII RN paints.
Please don't talk me about WEM colorcoat range, because they are not acrylics.

So I would like to know if someone uses Lifecolor paints for WWII RN paints.
And if yes, what are the (if possible) straight out of the bottle colors used.

After extensive research using munsell and a lot of various RGB tables and ressources I myself found this as a potential starting base :

- UA109 for 507a
- UA145 for 507b
- UA604 for 507c
- UA610 for MS1
- UA508 for MS2
- dont know what to use for MS3 (perhaps UA403 or UA608 ? or even UA120 ?)
- UA071 for G20
- UA020 for G45
- MS4 shall be a 50/50 mix of G20 and G45 ? being halfway between both in RGB range...
- WA green shall be something like UA60 lightened with white ?

Other ideas or even disagreements ?

[Timmy C]

Another option is to use Vallejo acrylics, for which matches have been done as seen in this PDF chart: http://www.ipmsswamp.com/files/VallejoW ... alents.pdf

[mister me]

yes but I disagree with this table :

for example, it is told that vallejo 900 is "** Exact match (or so close I can't tell the difference)" with :

- 507b
- Kure grey
- flight deck stain #21

and I dont think this is correct.

also, it is told (once again one example amongst others) that deck blue 20B and revised deck blue 20B are both 867, being in fact the same color... and being same as G10 that is itself normally less "blueish" than 20B

what else ? :

816 seems to be also :
- 507 A (1920 standard pre-war dark grey)
- #20 Standard Deck Gray (Pre war)
- 5N Navy Blue
- Norfolk 250N Flight Deck Stain (this one being normally practically same as deck blue 20B)
- Grigio Scuro (Dark Grey)
- Sasebo Naval Arsenal gray

I am not a rivet counter but it seems strange that so many colors are considered identical.
If true, WEM colorcoats should then sell 3 or 4 times less different references !!

and (but I didn't told it in my first post) : I want to use Lifecolor paints because they work pretty well with me. Really like those !