I'm just a new guy to the modeling hobby. Getting ready to build my first Tamiya kit which is a 1/48 F4F Wildcat. When checking out paint scheme suggestions it will have:
XF-3:2
+XF-5:1
for a particular area. I know the 'XF' designates 'flat paint' and the numbers corolate to specific colors. What, though, do the 'colons' and the '+' sign mean? Does it constitute a ratio?
Any help would be appreciated so I can find some other way to mess up the construction of this fine kit.