carr wrote:
redoctober27 wrote:
Hello what brand and colors of paint are you using?
Thanks for stopping by! Unfortunately, you're not going to like my answer. I don't worry much about colors and trying to match to "correct" colors. My view (many, many modellers would disagree!) is that the effects of scale distance, weathering, and other factors render the attempt to match paint a pointless exercise. So, I just eyeball match an approximate color, lighten it about 20%, and call it good enough. With the accuracy bar set that low, I just use whatever colors and brands I happen to have on hand and mix my own shades as needed. I don't even record my own mixes. If I have to make another batch and it happens to be a bit different in shade, that's fine. Real ships are not uniform unless they're fresh from drydock.
The best I can offer is that for this build, FS36320 has been the base of my grays and I tend to use Model Master Acryl paint more often than not.
Sorry! I know that's not the answer you were hoping for.
Regards,
Bob
Hi Bob,
out of 25 years experience in modelling -most of it with 1/35 military, since 1.5 years shifted to ships- I totally agree with your comment and point of view!
No offence against anyone using correct RAL/RLM, FS or whatever standard colour ... but if not building a clean model without any weathering, rust streaks etc., my opinion was and is always that the so called scale effect (as smaller the model, as more lighten is the original colour) and the weathering effect too are an important point in painting.
So out of this I work same way as you with mixing my colours and rarely using the named standard colour only. Every 1 colour shade is also at least made of 3 - 4 different colours to match these effects + lightning and darkening effect by dry brushing and using oil colours.
So good to read and see that someone has same opinions as I have
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