Just been lucky enough to get my hands on the new 1:24 Airfix Hellcat.
My small problem is that the colour callouts are obviously all Humbrol, but I only have Tamiya acrylics and don’t have funds to splash out on a whole bunch of Humbrol ones.
Can anyone give me close enough tamiya comparrisons (or mixes) to the following Humbol colours:
226 Interior Green (Interior photos seem to show a totally different green than this 226?!)
Grummen would have used MAP Standard paints - not British made, but very close match. For interiors, I imagine the factory would have carried on with American specificied colours, whatever that may been at that time. Could explain the mismatch of interior greens you noticed?
Exactly. Under Lend Lease agreements, aircraft made for other nations would use the closest US ANA paint equivalent for exterior colors, and interiors would be in the standard US production colors.
I thought the same thing. I don’t know what the actual Humbrol color looks like but the color on the instructions looks more like a khaki drab or faded od to me. I can’t say if it’s right or wrong but I decided to go with a green that’s much closer to the firewall color in the first link you show. I used a medium green from Model Master and lightened it a little. I’m sure you can get there with Tamiya. I didn’t reply earlier because I’m building the US version and didn’t know if your version would be the same.
