| Windward | 17 Sep 2010 10:57 a.m. PST |
I'm going to be painting up some Mirage IIIs, Sky Hawks, Phantoms in IAF colors. Any suggestions on what paints to use? They seem to all be roughly the same paints on these planes. |
| Top Gun Ace | 17 Sep 2010 12:32 p.m. PST |
Hmmm, sorry, can't help with Vallejo colors. I printed out some aircraft photos in color at home, and then took them to the local craft's store, and paint-matched in the aisle. Surreptitiously and carefully unscrewing the caps to match to the correct colors, since that is hard to do through their opaque bottles. I then added a bit of white to them, to get the faded look desired. Worked very well. |
| Sundance | 17 Sep 2010 12:55 p.m. PST |
Off the top of my head, I think the chocolate brown would work well. Can't think of any of the yellowy tan colors and I'm drawing a blank on the greens too, as you want an olivey color with a touch of grey. |
| CAG 19 | 17 Sep 2010 2:10 p.m. PST |
IIRC I used Iraqi Sand as the base coat on my post 1970 Mirages. I looked on some of the scale model galleries until I found something that looked okay and tried to match it by adding ivory to reflective green and chocolate brown (as per Sundance's suggestion). I work on the TLAR (that looks about right) basis anyway so I don't qualify on the exact hue community. Si |
| Top Gun Ace | 17 Sep 2010 4:08 p.m. PST |
I think I may have used Iraqi Sand, or a similar sand color from Vallejo for some of my jets. Can't recall if it was for Israeli or Arab jets. I used craft paints for the browns and greens, and a nice tan color as well on at least some of them. |
miscmini  | 17 Sep 2010 6:50 p.m. PST |
Here's what I used:
A-4 has 124 Iraqi Sand, 081 Medium Green, 134 US Tan picture picture
Mystere has 124 Iraqi Sand, 081 Medium Green 143 Earth picture picture I'm going to paint some more using colors slightly off from the ones above just to add some variety. 123 Dark Sand is one of the colors. I haven't gotten around to selecting the other greens or browns. I use the TLAR technique CAG 19 mentioned. Kevin |
| CAG 19 | 18 Sep 2010 12:01 a.m. PST |
Miscmini those are pretty impressive for 1/200th scale For some reason I can't edit my own post to put the link on to the Mirage IIIs in 1/600th which I am not too sure about the decals on. I tried the next size down and they didn't look right but now I am not too sure about these. Oh well, the beauty of 1/600th is that you have plenty of spares to practise on link But I think for Winward's Question, it is at least Iraqi Sand for the base colour! Top Gun Ace is quite right craft paints can give you some good shades, I don't think I have used them on aircraft but have used them to do target hexes etc Si |
| Sundance | 19 Sep 2010 5:50 p.m. PST |
miscmini, those are nice and seeing them painted, I'd say your color choice is excellent. |
| Windward | 15 Dec 2010 10:17 a.m. PST |
Is the underside white or light gray, its hard to tell from the prints? |
| miscmini | 17 Dec 2010 4:56 p.m. PST |
If gone with both light gray (mostly) and light blue(some). I've had trouble telling if it's one or the other depending on the website or the book. |
| Windward | 07 Apr 2011 6:09 p.m. PST |
Well I'll post some pictures, but I went with Iraqi Sand, Brown Sand, and Olive Green cut with white to lighten it up. For the underside I uses Silvergray. |
| Windward | 09 Apr 2011 10:41 a.m. PST |
Here are my results with Tumbling Dice 1/600th planes: link F-4 link A-4 link Mirage III |
