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Help painting my USS Springfield

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  • Member since
    August 2005
  • From: Mansfield, TX
Posted by EdGrune on Thursday, November 13, 2008 7:57 AM

In enamels, the best, most accurate choice is the Colourcoat line of paints from White Ensign Models.    http://www.whiteensignmodels.com/  They make a correct Modern Haze Gray (not to be confused with WWII 5-H Haze Gray),  modern deck gray, and antifoulding red.

Using MM enamels,  the specification for modern haze gray is 26270.   MM Neutral Gray is 36270 - satin vs flat.  Use that as flat looks better on the small scales.   Gunship Gray is close enough for modern deck gray.   No out-of-the-bottle solution for hull red in enamels.   Insignia Red is too red.  Rust is too brown.   A 1:1 mix may be close,  but I prefer American Tradition Rusty Red primer in the jumbo rattlecan from Lowes.

In acrylics -- you can go with the same MM colors as their enamels,  but for the hull red go to the model railroad side of the hobby shop and look at the PollyScale railroad colors (red label stuff).   The red zinc chromate is spot on.   Check too their Mineral Red box car color.

Other brands -- not an out-of-the-bottle solution.

Go to the Springfield entry at NAVSOURCE for some photos of her during her career as a guided missile cruiser http://www.navsource.org/archives/04/066/04066.htm

  • Member since
    November 2008
Help painting my USS Springfield
Posted by 3rdlav on Wednesday, November 12, 2008 8:38 PM
I have a Revell USS springfield kit #5007. I started it 20 + years ago
and now would like to finish it. My problem is I build armor. I am not
sure what colors to use. The directions say to use light brown on the
deck and red for the lower hull. It does not say what colors to use for
the upper hull or superstructure. It looks like revell took a WWII
model CL-66 and converted it. They removed the rear turrets and added
missles and a helicopter to make CLG-7. My version of this ship was in
service from 1960 thru 1975. Any help with colors would be
appreciciated.

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