Olive Drab Mixing Table in Finescale?

I have a guide to Pantone piants.  That really helps me to get my colors close.  I don't really paint too exact specs... Just what looks good to me

For some builds, yes, I want matched colors. For ones that I'm building to depict as well weathered or aged, close enough works. And sometimes I just prefer a particular brand's take on a particular color. Personally I prefer enamels most of the time, and Humbrol at that. As far as acrylics go, I'm finding myself becoming a big fan of the AK Real Colors line. Mission Models acrylics are pretty good also in my experience. 

Cafguy

I find it interesting that you want to find the perfect paint color for your model Its all a question of who you are building for . If you want perfect match ANA colors than their is only one producer and that is vallejo their are some pretty close customers such as Tamaya( My Favorite paint). If you want you be scale authentic then you have to pretty much mix your own colors to your liking

 

I'd say that the great gift of the online community is that all opinions are, well, out there to read.

For instance, I think Tamiya OD pretty much sucks on airplanes but looks OK on armor. as it should. Or, Testors Haze Gray looks ok on big models, but the color is not great on smaller ones where I like White Ensign. The point is if you want to be accurate; good luck. There are folks like Snapdragon who have color chips deemed to be accurate for a certain factory at a certain time painting a certain block of armor, or myself who ran around twenty five years ago scraping paint from the non-exposed sides of railroad stations to build a chip library of a certain railroads common standard stations.

Beyond those immediately limited collectors, it really is pretty subjective. And fresh out of the can, so to speak.

 

Bill

I find it interesting that you want to find the perfect paint color for your model Its all a question of who you are building for . If you want perfect match ANA colors than their is only one producer and that is vallejo their are some pretty close customers such as Tamaya( My Favorite paint). If you want you be scale authentic then you have to pretty much mix your own colors to your liking

Cafguy

If you really want to mix your own colors there are a wide verity of mixing guides on line but there are a number of paint manufactuers that mix these piants for you .  TAmiya and valleho are some that produce very acurate colors. 

 

Most Tamiya colors are quite generic and not matched to any particular paint standard such as ANA, FS, RAL, RLM, BSC, etc. Any exact matches in most cases is mostly co incidental.

If you really want to mix your own colors there are a wide verity of mixing guides on line but there are a number of paint manufactuers that mix these piants for you .  TAmiya and valleho are some that produce very acurate colors.