Colors for u-boat

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I;m building a u-boat for the first time and I;m not sure of the proper colors to use.Can somebody point me in the right direction. I;m going to use MM acrylics.
Thank you John

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Well JCB3,I would use MM netural gray and also a med.gray for camo effect.If you can go to a book store or libaray you can look up several paint schemes the Germans did to there u-boats.Some where painted with red bottoms with the black stripe with a gray top-MM med.gull gray comes close to it.Others where around gray-MM netural gray with med.stripes for camo.Then others where just plain gray,once again MM netural gray comes close to it.Digger

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Thanks Digger. I noticed the weathering (rust) was done to most of the u-boats what color are they using. I read on some of the posts that Tamiya had the best color for rust? Thanks John

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John,MM makes a rust color in there paints,but from what I have reid must use pastels for weathering.You can get this at any hobby store that sells oil paints for canvas.They come in pencil shape or in sticks,just use a knife and scrap into a bowl.Take scrapings and apply with brush.This ought to help you out,also when you look for pastels get a range of colors in the brown and amber to the black and grays.They will help you out in shading,rusting,panel lines and drit effects.Digger

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Thanks Digger. I always used my airbrush for the weathering but sometimes the results were not to my liking. I thought about using pastels a few times but this time I will get them and use them. Thanks for the help. John

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Thanks guys! I am about to build a u-boat also, and wondered the samething about the colors. Good info.

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Wander over to the Squadron web site and take a look under publications - They’ve go a couple of good books (profiles) on U-boats.