Tamiya Paints

Jason,
The Earth Red is a MM Acryl color #4707. Sometimes I mix a little of the darker brown in it cause it's red.

That would be great. The Tamiya's worked pretty well (aside from the needle build up I always seem to get when spraying at a lower pressure)

I usually spray the Red Brown lightened with a little white as well for scale. I have also added about 10% of XF-9 Hull Red to the mixture to give it a slightly redder shade. In my opinion, Tamiya Acrylics are very airbrush friendly, very easy to control, and very easy to mix to acquire the right shade of base coat or camo pattern. I very rarely spray them right out of the bottle. I almost always add a few different colors to it to get the shade I am looking for. Like I said, adding a touch of Tamiya Buff lightens the Dark Yellow just enough that it doesn't fade it out. Hull Red can take a little of the brown out of the the Red Brown. I have a chart that I have written down on different color combinations that I have either read about or done myself over the years, I can post them later on tonight when I get home from work JWest.

Cheers

Mo

Moses, do you do anything with their red-brown?

I use Tamiya Acrylics almost exclusively in my airbrush and I find thier Dark Yellow to be a very close match to the actual RAL. Of course I always add others colors to it so All my German Armor with Dunkelgeld does not all look the same. I almost always add a small amount of Buff to the mixture as well as a little white for scale effect.

Cheers

Mo

Maybe the Tamiya paints I have sat in the LHS for too long or something. I was thinking about lightening them up some and re-shooting it. I haven't seen the new MM German camop paint set. Are they enamels?

QUOTE: you are tempting me to open the 'scale effect' can of worms! :-) i will just say that there is reason to believe that the same paint looks 'darker' the smaller the scale of the subject. some folks lighten the colors to compensate. other folks say 'hogwash'!

Well, I'm going to repaint it anyway, so i'll try lightening the colors. I'll try the paints as they are on a larger practice piece and see what happens. Then we'll know. Thanks for the tip.

buff,
you are tempting me to open the 'scale effect' can of worms!
:-)
i will just say that there is reason to believe that the same paint looks 'darker'
the smaller the scale of the subject.
some folks lighten the colors to compensate.
other folks say 'hogwash'!

I've never had any problems painting with the Tamiyas. They've always gone on well and adhered well. They are also very easy to clean up. I painted my MTD Tiger in the three tone with Dark Green, Dark Yellow and Red Brown, and to me they all looked too dark. I didn't preshade either.

just for the record, i use the same Tamiya trio as Dwight.
it looks good to my inexpert eye, and i find the Tamiya paints to adhere well,
and behave themselves in my airbrush.

The problem with Tamiya is they strictly use their own paints in the instruction guide and frankly their line of paint is not that broad as in the other brands like Humbrol, Gunze, Model Master. Everytime I use their recommended paints for their armor kit it just does not look right. Am grateful for them releasing their 3-tone Nato colors (XF-67, XF-68, XF-69) and hope that they release more specific colors in the future.

For now I suggest that you don't follow the instruction guides and use the corresponding colors from the other brands.

There is a new thing out from the MM company, it's a paint set for WWII mid warGerman armor. It has 6 colors, Schwarzgrau '39-43, Panzer Dunkelgelb, Schokoladenbraun, Panzer Olivgrun, Afrika Grunbraun, Track Brown. Why they threw that last one in there beats me, but anyway. The nice thing is that it comes in a tin box. When you're organizationally-challenged like me, it helps keep the camo colors seperate from the other colors. Good luck

I have used Polly Scale for years, the previous Polly S for decades. They work fine for me, and the judges at the shows think so too.

Jason,

Well, what I do is shoot about two coats of Dark Yellow on the model after assembly. Then I proceed to the Dark Green and Dark Brown combination.

But I don't use any other basecoat.

Is the Earth Red a MM acryl? I don't remember that one from my LHS

I use MM Acryl Dunkelgelb, Panzer Olivgrun, and earth red. I don't care for their chocolate brown, it's too dark a brown for my taste. I've noticed the green tint in the dark yellow, but once the other colors are on it seems to go away and looks just fine, IMHO.

Jwest,

I work strictly in enamels and use MM Dunkelgelb, Olivgrun, and Schokoladedbrun for my three-tone schemes. I've never used the MM acrylics but the enamel dunkelgelb doesn't have a greenish tint, at least not that I can tell.

Do you use a base coat? Maybe that is the problem?

That's strange. I have been using Tamiya Acrylic eversince and I haven't experienced that.

I use Dark Yellow, Dark Green and Red Brown for German camo.