"Your Modern Ship Palette Colors? " Topic
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| Cold Warrior | 12 Aug 2016 7:45 a.m. PST |
Wanted to see what specific grey colors people are using for their various modern fleets. While my Soviet/Russian fleet is nearly finished, soon need to start on US, UK and other NATO states, Japan the PRC & Taiwan among others, so would be interested in the color choices used by others. |
dragon6  | 12 Aug 2016 3:34 p.m. PST |
US hulls Testors MM Aggressor Gray lightened with a little white
US decks charcoal grey lightened a bit TLAR
US all flight decks – black USSR hulls Testors Polly-S light topside gray
USSR decks Tamiya leather brown – shading red UK hulls Testors MM Camouflage Gray
UK decks same as US deck but lighter Japanese
hull JNSDF Tamiya XF12 J.N. Gray
deck JNSDF Tamiya XF12 J.N. Gray |
| SteveZodiac | 13 Aug 2016 4:02 a.m. PST |
Any idea what color to use for the Philippine Navy? |
| whenimaginationfails | 13 Aug 2016 7:09 a.m. PST |
Unfortunately, dragon6, Testors phased out their Floquil/Polly Scale/Polly-S paints a few years back. That was a sad day since I still think they were the best paints for miniatures. Thankfully, adding a bit of water keeps my bottles from drying out at least. I put this color map together a few years back from the paints I had when I started painting modern naval miniatures:
I found this color comparison as well: microscale.com/Floquil%20Color%20Chart.pdf |
| colkitto | 13 Aug 2016 12:09 p.m. PST |
I've been using Humbrol 147 (with a Klear/black wash) for my 1/3000 Chinese. And I have done some Argentine stuff in H127 (but that's a random guess). |
| Cold Warrior | 16 Aug 2016 3:04 p.m. PST |
Thanks gents, lots of good suggestions. Pericles, I paint chip my colors as well in organized charts. |
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