"Painting Russo-Japanese ships in 1/6000" Topic

I have the Russo-Japanese fleet packs from Hallmark.

Would welcome suggestions on giving these a reasonable paint job to get them on the table, without super-detailing, preferably using Vallejo acrylics.

Thanks,

Alan

And here is probably the best available: link

Although aimed at their 1:2400 scale ships, the colors and instructions should work with your 1:6000 scale ships.

I used their suggested colors (modified for acrylic craft paints) on my Panzerschiffe 1:2400 pre-dreadnoughts. link

Jim

Go a few shades lighter for 1/6000 scale ships. For my WWI vessels, I used medium gray as "dark", light gray as "medium", and a light-medium gray base with a lot of grayish off-white as "light gray".

Exception: black is still black, in every scale. :-)
(However, I still recommend saving actual black for holes, and using a dark gray with a black wash for "black" things like ship sides.)

- Ix

I've painted both and as Yellow Admiral says, going lighter helps. I also agree that at that scale, a black wash helps followed by a drybrush back up to pop detail.

Many thanks