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Hand painting Danish Catalina - looking for flat day-glo orange and dark red acrylic

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  • Member since
    February 2015
Hand painting Danish Catalina - looking for flat day-glo orange and dark red acrylic
Posted by MontrealMatt on Thursday, July 27, 2017 5:25 PM

Howdy all,

  I just picked up a sweet old Revell 1/72 Catalina Black Cat (1969!) from a thrift shop, but I wanted to paint it up with something a bit more exciting than all black.  Denmark applied a fairly interesting livery to their Cats - if you google "Danish PBY Catalina", you'll see their Cats tipped in a striking day-glo orange, with a dark red (crimson?) upperwing.  

  I usually use Tamiya acrylics, but it seems Tamiya doesn't make a flat orange or flat dark red, and I'm having trouble turning up anything else.  Does anyone have any suggestions for where I can find these colors in acrylic?

Cheers,

Matt

  • Member since
    November 2009
  • From: Twin Cities of Minnesota
Posted by Don Stauffer on Friday, July 28, 2017 11:30 AM

Haven't found a day glow orange in years.  For the dark red, when I need an acrylic (I don't use acrylic often, though) that is not available in hobby shop paints, I go to my local Michaels store and look in their store brand acrylic paint line- an awesome selection of colors (except for day glows).

Don Stauffer in Minnesota

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