Colors for B-24 Strawberry Beach

"Desert Pink" is what you're looking for for "Strawberry Bi tch", I think... My source says it was ANA 616 Sand (AKA Desert Sand). "Air Force Colors, Vol. 2, ETO & MTO 1942-45" (Dana Bell) The FS number 30279 is called out with the comment, "good match, 616 is slightly darker than 30279". This color was later changed to "ANA 26 Sand" and lists the equivalent FS number as 30279 with the following comment "#26 is slightly darker and pinker"...  Looks pretty close to the Desert Pink used by the Brit LRDG for their trucks...

Most B-24s sent to North Africa were painted Sand and Neutral Gray,  however the 98th BG Libs were Sand and Azure Blue (from RAF stocks). Check Polyscale for the colors you need... Tamiya may also have the "LRDG Desert Pink", although I'm not sure about that...

Thanks for your prompt reply Hans. Some sources (prior to posting my question here) mentioned the Humbrol #250 matt TAN. I've got a tinlet from my local store (last one in stock) and brought it home. Compared to my MM Acryl and Tamiya sand shades I have at hand, the Humbrol 250 looks to me kind of dark. Yes, the Humbrol does look kind of pink, but I find it myself dark. Due to the nature of my work, my monitors are calibrated with PANTONE and defintely #250 is way off. Thanks a lot for your time and suggestion, I will drive today to this hobby shop I didn't know existed and will take a look at the Polly Paints rack they have. I always use Tamiya and Model Master, preferably acryl but there is always a 1st time

To error on the lighter side of the hue would be accurate for a scale effect. Should build up into a impressive model given your obvious skills El Taino.

Instead of mixing the color ot trying to match it straight from the bottle/tin, you might try just spraying a "faded" Sand color on, then tinting the topcoat with a heavily thinned pink...  I've done this with some good results with the early Olive Drab the USAAF used that had a tendancy to color-shift almost to a purple... 

I just used Testor's MM OD enamel and then oversprayed a misty/thinned purple color I mixed up m'self from Testor's Gloss Blue and Gloss Red enamel (I'm an enamel guy.  For me, enamels atomize finer than acrylics in the AB)... About the same technique you'd use to "sun-fade" a regular "factory-color"...  It's an old technique, but I think someone just read about it, did it, liked it, and then changed the name to "filtering" and claimed it a "new technique"...

Definately want to test that on a paint hulk though...