"Lifecolor paint for British tanks" Topic
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| John Secker | 02 Oct 2012 4:32 p.m. PST |
I like to use Lifecolor acrylics for airbrushing my 1/300 WW2 miniatures. I am not a painting fiend, just a wargamer who enjoys the modelling and painting side, so I am quite happy to have my hand held when it comes to getting the right shades for various uses. Lifecolor do handy sets – for example Russian Army colours, a double set for German vehicles, you can even get a whole set for US Olive Drab. But they don't seem to do a basic British set for the core post D-Day period. They do an early war British, and a Desert British (there's even a German tank interiors set) but nothing for the Normandy period. So I am looking for the closest match in their range for the green/khaki that I need as the base for my Shermans/Churchills/Cromwells. Can anyone suggest the right shade? |
| Cerdic | 02 Oct 2012 11:14 p.m. PST |
Was the paint standardised across the Allied armies by D-Day? The markings were – white star on vehicles for example. Maybe you can just use the US colours? |
| John Secker | 03 Oct 2012 2:50 a.m. PST |
I believe that the Shermans may have been painted US colours (Olive Drab?) but that other tanks like the Churchills were not. Certainly what pictures I have managed to find suggest that UK tanks were in different shades, but as I said I am not an expert and if someone can tell me definitively that they were all in US colours (colors?) that would save me a lot of searching. |
slugbalancer  | 03 Oct 2012 7:23 a.m. PST |
British built AFVs would have been, mostly, in SCC15 which is the British version of Olive Drab. It's similar when fresh but the whilst the U.S. version goes browner when aged SCC15 goes greener.
No one appears to do this shade in acrylics but there are mixes for it. This from Mike Starmer
Tamiya SCC No.15 Olive Drab
Mix. 5 prts XF81 +1 prt XF58 + 1 prt 71.
This is a fraction lighter than the standard which makes life a little easier for many no doubt |
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