Paint Manufactures

QUOTE: Originally posted by jpfracer Hello all. How do you convert one company's paint color to another company's...i.e, I am building a Tamiya A10-A and I will be using PollyScale paint. The instructions call for Tamiya color ' Lemon Yellow ' PollyScale does not have this color...at least not in their list of military colors. Thanks. Great website, great forum. I have learned alot. P.S Can you airbrush Citadel paint and if so, what should it be thinned with? Thanks again

airbrushing Citadel

Thinning soluiton: 50/50 windshield fluid and water.
Then 60% thinner to 40% paint.

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I found the above on the web on another forum.

ngc7293, when you say windshield fluid, could you use Windex? I tried airbrushing some Citadel metallics last week but I thinned with alcohol and my airbrush gummed up severely and took ages to clean out. In fact it created one hell of a mess.
I really like the way their metallic colours look (nice fine pigment), so I'm tempted to try again with your thinner recipe. does it clean up OK without gunking up in your brush? Thanks.

Cheers...Snowy.

At the time, I did use Windex, I just decided to write what I found. I didn't use metallic paints, so I don't know if there is a different mixture. From what I have read here and other places, paints react differently to different solutions. The Windex and water formula might have been the solution (no pun) for thinning as opposed to straight alchohol.

Yeah, having checked more carefuly I notice the Citadel paints don't have any kind of alcohol smell to them in the jar (as opposed to say, Tamiya acrylics). It seems like they may work better thinned with water and probably a little of something to break the surface tension (like the Windex in your recipe). I'll give them another go, I'd really like to get them to work thru my airbrush as they are real nice paints. It's a pity the company that makes them doesn,t cater for airbrush users (I don,t think they even market a thinner). Thanks mate.

Cheers...Snowy.

Thanks for the help on the Citadel paints. Can anyone help me with my first question on converting one company's paint color to another? Thanks.

jpfracer, try www.ipmsstockholm.org for some paint conversion charts. Hope this helps.

Cheers...Snowy.

Here is what I tried and I got close. Convert Tamiya to Humbrol and then Humbrol to Polly S
Here is the first link
http://www.rlm.at/start_e.htm
The second link is on the same site as above:
http://www.ipmsstockholm.org/colorcharts/colorcharts.asp

Humbrol 69 = Tamiya X8, but I did not see a Polly S version. But maybe you can.

I went through a question something like this and found Tamiya's color combination was the same as Testor's Interior Green.

I'm trying to imagine an A10 in yellow, so I'm guessing the lemon Yellow is for bomb tips? Maybe a bottle of something else will work?

Thanks for your help.