Apologies if this has been covered before. I am in need of a reddish-orange color for my current build, and was thinking of combining Tamiya X-7 Gloss Red with Tamiya XF-3 Flat Yellow (both of which I already have on my bench) to accomplish this. I'll of course need to experiment with how much yellow to add in order to get the correct shade.
A few questions:
1) Can Tamiya gloss and flat paints be mixed in this way, or are the formulations incompatible? I would think it would be fine.
2) When mixing gloss and flat paint, for example at a 50/50 ratio, does this result in a semi-gloss finish? And for ratios other than 50/50, can I expect the amount of gloss in the finish to diminish on a roughly linear scale according to the ratio of flat paint in the mix?
-Kizzy