Azure blue mix.

Tools, Techniques, and Reference Materials Painting and airbrushing
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Hi folks,

Looking at a future project I’m after some Azure blue, was hoping to use Gunze Aqueous but I cant find it anywhere, not even one of the sets they do. Anyone know a mix using other gunze colours, failing that maybe tamiya acrylic, I know a few other makes do the colour but I was hoping to avoid buying yet another brand [bnghead].

Cheers,

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From the internets, no idea if accurate, but seems like it would be:

Tamiya…

XF-2 Flat White - 10

XF-18 Medium Blue - 5

X-16 Purple - 2

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Thanks Doogs,

Think I’ll substitute the white and blue with gunze and just get myself some of the tamiya purple.

Cheers…

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the tamiya mix comes out to purple. only azure i use is MM enamel.

i compared the tamiya mix,gunze,and MM enamel. gunze and tamiya is way to purple.

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Agreed. One of the things I hate about having to order Gunze online is that I can’t eyeball the paint beforehand. Some colors (Olive Drab) are beautiful, others (Azure) are a mess. MM Azure for me all the way…

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Gunze’s only Azure Blue comes in their acrylic lacquer range, and is only available in their RAF color set 2. I have the set and have used the Azure blue and it doesn’t look near as purple once sprayed on the model. I think I just added a little white for scale effect. But yes, it is a hard color to pin down. Not sure if I’ve ever seen a good wartime color photo of Azure blue to see which brand is more accurate.