color reference needed

QUOTE: Originally posted by NEPTUN hi Have u tried ipms stocholm? they have very good color charts

Thank you, I use it often.... they have great reports

hi
Have u tried ipms stocholm?
they have very good color charts

I have a page with some info as well...

http://www.naplak.com/modeling/tips/color_guide.htm

It shows several different brands of paints, and some mixing inof for Tamiya paints.

The IPMS Color Cross-Reference Guide lists extra dark sea grey as FS36118 with the comment "exact match". This is a very dark bluish gray, very similar to the Luftwaffe interior black-gray (schwarzgrau), but slightly lighter.

Don't forget to lighten slightly for scale. Good luck.

Pete

As far as I can tell, the colour should be; Extra dark sea grey. The same shade as Xtracolor X5 or humbrol No 27. It's a dark blue/grey colour, if that helps.
The underside would probably be RAF sky. (Xtracolor X7/Humbrol No 90)
If you cannot get hold of paint charts for those makers, do you have any old model magazines where models may have been built in those colours?, that may give you an idea of how to procede.
The paint on a WW2 aircraft would probably fade anyway, so a shade or two out may not matter too much.