What is this color used for?

I use that colour for German aircraft seat belts and its good for replicating dust on armour when sprayed thin.

It's a good base color for wood decks on ships. If you were building the big 1/96 USS Constitution or USS Kearsarge, Cutty Sark, Thermopylae, or CSS Alabama you would want three or four bottles of it.

Tamiya's buff was the color of choice for the sand "squiggles" in 1980s era US Army MERDC paint schemes.

The red brown makes a good hull red, the red orange can be used on car bodies. Clear orange on lenses.

I use Buff for a lot of US aircraft applications like seat belts and lightening camo colors to get that faded effect. It's good for a base color for natural wood effects as well.

Before I posted here, I did a Google search for buff color hoping that I would find a post somewhere that linked it to a use. All I found had people using it for dust and little bits and pieces. I was hoping to find some use that would have called for a lot of paint, just to justify why I would have bought ten bottles. 

US Navy pilot uniforms from WW2, British tropical pilot uniforms.  I think I orininally bought my bottle for the "gators" on US army soldiers.  Tamiya called it out in the instructions, anyway.

When I buy paint for a project, I normally buy an extra bottle, just so I don't run out. In the case of the buff, I have two seperate bottle and then theres two boxes of four bottles each. So I think I must have bought them at the same time, meaning I thought I was going to need A LOT of buff. Ha, I don't know! 

I don't need all of these extra bottles of paint that I'm finding. I think I might try checking with a person that I donated a bunch of kits to a while back. It be a shame to just throw it all away, and I know that I won't use it if I live another fifty years. 

Buff was a popular color for warships in late 19th and early 20th century.  If you build, for instance, Revell's SMS Emden (WW1 cruiser) in its pre-war livery, you'll use a lot of buff.  Civil ships used to use it a lot for stacks and other above deck areas (i.e, Titanic).

When you say buff I'm thinking of Elfenbein, a soft creamy light ivory color used inside some German WWII tanks. MM enamel 2104 is called Panzer Interior Buff and is an excellent match.

plasticjunkie

When you say buff I'm thinking of Elfenbein, a soft creamy light ivory color used inside some German WWII tanks. MM enamel 2104 is called Panzer Interior Buff and is an excellent match.

 

Ah yes, Elfenbein. That's what I was trying to re-create. I was doing mainly German WWII armor at one time. That's what I bought the the Buff for. Thank you, plasticjunkie, and everyone else, for your help.

cwalker3

 

plasticjunkie

When you say buff I'm thinking of Elfenbein, a soft creamy light ivory color used inside some German WWII tanks. MM enamel 2104 is called Panzer Interior Buff and is an excellent match.

 

 

 

 

Ah yes, Elfenbein. That's what I was trying to re-create. I was doing mainly German WWII armor at one time. That's what I bought the the Buff for. Thank you, plasticjunkie, and everyone else, for your help.

 

 

You are welcome cw and it's better to have several of the the same than none at all! That just hapenned to me a couple of days ago thinking I had a particular color, only to discover I was out of it after returning from the lhs!

Radome color for F-18s and S-3s

seastallion53

Radome color for F-18s and S-3s

 

You are right Radome tan (FS33613) is a VERY close match that can do in a pinch.

I'm finding a need right now for a "buff" color for two ship models, but tan just doesn't do it- too low a saturation.  I am going my normal route of mixing radome tan and flat yellow till I get the color I want.

Back a while ago, I was planning to build a 1/350 Scharnhorst; the one sunk at the Battle of The Falkland Islands.

I bought three jars each of Far East Squadron white and buff. Still have them as I haven't built the kit. Funny how those paint stocks become a stash of their own.

I recently bought a kit of the Model Shipways Taurus tug that I found on a high shelf in a shop, for full retail. When I opened it to check for parts, there was a baggie with six Humbrol paint jars in it, no doubt bought for the kit.

GMorrison

Back a while ago, I was planning to build a 1/350 Scharnhorst; the one sunk at the Battle of The Falkland Islands.

I bought three jars each of Far East Squadron white and buff. Still have them as I haven't built the kit. Funny how those paint stocks become a stash of their own.

I recently bought a kit of the Model Shipways Taurus tug that I found on a high shelf in a shop, for full retail. When I opened it to check for parts, there was a baggie with six Humbrol paint jars in it, no doubt bought for the kit.

 

 

You can pick up that Revell kit of the SMS Emden to use your white and buff for.  I built mine as the pre-war livery.  It was a pretty good kit, and good PE available.  I picked up several trophies for that build.  Some minor problems with main turrets but all in all a fine build.

Yes I have seen your build and it’s is a winner. I built that model in the gray she was painted at the end.

That’s a special kit, it also can be built as the Dresden by substituting the section of the hull from two screws to four.

Both came in one box for a time.