 miserable old git wrote: |
| originaly posted this in armour, then found ships, gawd knows where it was hiding to start with, anyway. just getting to the painting bit of Italeri's PT boat. Can not find the closest coliours to use. can any one give me a clue? My easiest scource is the Tamyia range. Not too concerned about it beeing 100%. There seem to be three colors used. Green 2, Green 3, and deck Green, as well as a Dull Black. Also, could anybody give me a idiots guide to fading and weathering her? thanks Colin |
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Those color callouts are for WWII Naval Colors and they have absolutely no corresponding reference in the modern Fed-Std system -- and only marginal refernce to the ANA system in place during WWII. First thing you must do is forget anything you learned about either of these systems.
Testors used to make a set of US Navy WWII colors in their Acryl II Marine line of paints. These are out of production, but may still be found in some shops or ordered directly from Testors. They made the Greens as well as #4 Brown.
Your best and most accurate choice for colors is the Colourcoat line of paints from White Ensign Models. They are enamels. They have all the greens, the browns, plus some of the specialty torpedo boat greens which were home-brewed using locally available paint stocks. John Snyder of WEM is a paint conservator by training and vocation -- he married into the model business. He knows what he is talking about.
There are no other out of the bottle solutions for you.
Don't want to go with the Colourcoats -- WEM also sells a series of naval paint chips. These were originally done by John Snyder (of WEM) and Randy Short (of shipcamouflage.com). Use these chips as your color standard when mixing your own.
Dull Black -- for that use aircraft interior black.
As far as weathering a ship -- the best armor modeler I know woke me early one Saturday morning. He had just finished painting a ship model for a group project. "Weathering a ship is just like weathering a tank, except you leave off the mud!" To that I will add, weathering a PT Boat is just like weathering a tank, except you leave off the rust. They were made of plywood.
It is my opinion that modeling and painting large scale ships and subs (1:72 and larger) is more akin to armor modeling than it is to ship modeling. Most of the techniques are similar and you don't have any of the techniques of the traditional smaller scales of ship modeling (rails, folding PE, etc.). Apply what you know from armor as far as shading seams, highlighting panels, and washing details to the Italieri PT boat (or Revell's PT-109 or big subs).