"Star Trek Universe - Painting Schemes" Topic
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| Bravo Six | 24 Jan 2016 3:54 p.m. PST |
Lads, I'm looking for some base color ideas for Star Trek minis. Since I don't have access to an airbrush, I'm looking for ideas/suggestions for colors out of a can. I thinking Testors, Krylon, Tremclad, etc. More specifically, I'm looking for base colors for the following: Federation: The Original Series era; The Motion Picture Era; Star Trek Nemesis era (think Sovereign Class Enterprise) Klingon: All Eras. Looking for a "grey" that I can use cross eras. Romulans: Again, all eras. Looking for that glowing "green" seen in TNG. Any help is appreciated. -B6 |
| rbmgl2814 | 24 Jan 2016 4:01 p.m. PST |
original series feds base color is pretty close to a cement gray movie-era, white for TMP the 1701-D is a duck egg blue |
| Garand | 24 Jan 2016 4:23 p.m. PST |
IIRC the TOS Enterprise was spraypainted Ford Engine Grey. I use GW's Fortress Grey, or whatever its new equivalent is. Damon. |
| Oddball | 24 Jan 2016 4:52 p.m. PST |
I thought the Klingon ships were green and Romulans were white. |
| Cosmic Reset | 24 Jan 2016 4:57 p.m. PST |
I've been trying to figure out what color to paint my TOS federation ships in particular, and found this link to be useful: link I've been looking for a quick and easy spray paint (though don't know if I will go that route yet) and am considering the following… For TOS Federation. I think Liquitex spray Chromium Oxide Green is a pretty close match, but I worry that it is too dark to look right in miniature scale. Additionally, I am relying on online color charts to this point. I've also considered Montana Black spray 6310 Olymp, which I think is lighter and maybe too green, but might look better in scale. Dick Blick art supply is one source for these. I haven't gotten around to matching bottled paints yet. |
| Col Durnford | 25 Jan 2016 10:08 a.m. PST |
Way back I found this for TOS: PAINT SELECTED
(ALL MODEL MASTER – 2 PART FLAT WHITE (F) 769
2 PART LIGHT GRAY (IK) 4765
1 PART DUCK EGG BLUE 4748 Looks good to my eye. |
| Bravo Six | 25 Jan 2016 1:50 p.m. PST |
Thanks guys. Vince, I wanted to stay away from mixing paint and gooping it on with a brush. Since I don't have an airbrush, I'm trying to find spray can colors as I find spraying gives me more uniformity. I found an old note I made from a post at the SCN Forums which stated: For TMP and TOS Feds – Testors Light Sea Grey Klingon Grey (Battlecruisers) – Testors Flat Gull Grey Or maybe it was the other way around. Trial and error sounds like it's the order of the day. -B6 |
| Keifer113 | 19 Feb 2016 12:30 a.m. PST |
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