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Panzer Dark Yellow
Posted by DiscoStu on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 3:59 PM

Hey all.  Need some painting advice.  I primarily do aircraft, but decided to venture out of my comfort zone and tackle the AFV 1/35 Tiger 1.  I'm closing in on the painting stage and need to know what dark yellow would be recommended.  I'd prefer a Tamiya call out since that's what I have the most of and may have it already, but if it's something I need to order I'd like to know what the right color is.  I'd prefer either MM enamels or gunze Mr. Color.

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Posted by Bish on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 4:22 PM

For Tamiya, XF-60 would be the one tamiya recomends and is a good option. Not sure about the other 2.

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Posted by Tojo72 on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 4:37 PM

Tamiya XF-60 lightened with Tamiya Buff 90-10  I found that filtering washing and weathering darkens the XF-60 too much

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Posted by DiscoStu on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 4:42 PM

Groovy!  Got several bottles of XF-60.  Thanks for the tip!

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Posted by Phil_H on Thursday, April 25, 2013 9:04 AM

My favourite Tamiya mix for Dark Yellow is 50/50 XF-60 (Dark Yellow) and XF-55 (Deck Tan).

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Posted by DiscoStu on Thursday, April 25, 2013 2:14 PM

Sprayed last night using Tojo's advice on the Yellow/Buff combo and couldn't have been happier with the result.  Sprayed beautifully and looked spot on (Well, spot on to a wingnut.  I'm sure the armor guys would tell me it's too light/dark/yellow/white/plaid/ for this particular tank since during October 1943 a line worker named Hans spilled his sauerbraten into the vat of paint)Big Smile

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  • From: Douglas AZ
Posted by littletimmy on Thursday, April 25, 2013 2:19 PM

Does that mean we now have a prototype for "scratch and sniff" camo ???

 Dont worry about the thumbprint, paint it Rust , and call it "Battle Damage"

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Posted by Tojo72 on Thursday, April 25, 2013 4:51 PM

Glad it worked out Stu

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Posted by tigerman on Friday, April 26, 2013 2:04 AM

Of course we need to evaluate it. Wink

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  • From: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Posted by Bish on Friday, April 26, 2013 2:28 AM

DiscoStu

Sprayed last night using Tojo's advice on the Yellow/Buff combo and couldn't have been happier with the result.  Sprayed beautifully and looked spot on (Well, spot on to a wingnut.  I'm sure the armor guys would tell me it's too light/dark/yellow/white/plaid/ for this particular tank since during October 1943 a line worker named Hans spilled his sauerbraten into the vat of paint)Big Smile

I don't think you will have any issue with that mix. One thing i forgot about when i suggested straight XF-60 is that the last time i used it, and i don't use tamiya often, was also the first time i did any sort of wash. And the end result was way to dark.

However, you might want to send that suggestion to Dragon. I don't think they have done a tank from that period yet. Big Smile

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On the bench: Airfix 1/72nd Harrier GR.3/Fujimi 1/72nd Ju 87D-3

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