Faded Olive Drab???

Tools, Techniques, and Reference Materials Painting and airbrushing
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Hi, i just found a Model Master´s paint named Faded Olive Drab, i dont have the bottle handy so i dont know the number code, but anyway my question is, how would you mix this paint?? lets say you are building a B-24 and you want to use this paint, so you will have a faded upper sides and you will need a non so faded surface, this not so faded surface… what paint would you use??[:D]

do you know what i mean?[:I]

thanks in advance
[:D]

regards
Hector.

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I guess you’d need the faded OD for the top and regular OD for the bottom. You could probably darken the faded OD by adding some dark gray or dark green to it, but you’d have to play with it to get the color you want.

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I have not seen the MM faded OD. Thier regualr OD is very faded compared to Tamiya’s OD which to me is to dark, but I do lean towards the faded look any way. Will have to look out for that faded od and give it a try.

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Hi Hector,

I’ve used Model Master faded olive drab before, and MusicCity is right-you want to use Model Master regular olive drab for the non-faded surfaces. The results look pretty good. You can achieve the same effect of faded paint by putting a few drops of white into the regular olive drab, but Model Master is basically doing the same thing for you with their faded olive drab. Hope this helps.

Mark

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If you use Faded OD over regular OD, you need to blend it in. Otherwise it looks more like a two tone camo & not very realistic. You can blend by spraying a very thin coat of faded over the regular or by mixing some faded & regular together & overspraying with a thin coat.

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aeormaster did an olive drab and a faded olive drab in their acrylic line and it was great…
Y not spray the whole aircraft olive drab…then from straight above…spray down on the wings, fuselage and horizontal stabs…the faded olive drab…
doesn’t the sun and weather cause fading of aircraft paint ?
good luck to ya[:)]

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Thanks for your kind responses fellas, i will try to make my own faded OD and i am gonna look fo the regular MM OD, make some experimentation and then will paint it with the best and more realistic colors, thanks once more and sorry for the delay…

Regards
Hector.