I’m going to paint a Jagdpanzer with tamiya Dark Yellow TS-3. It kinda looks like Dunkleglelb. I don’t have an airbrush so no custom mixing. I have two options for the base coat: Tamiya German grey TS-4 or Light sand TS-46. I want to do a “salt mask” to resemble chipping/wear showing through. Would either of of the two colors look right? I was thinking that maybe under the German Dunklegelb they might have done a base coat of plain gray primer? So then I would see the chips reflected as the gray (after I brush the salt off).
If y’all got an opinion or advice, I’d truly appreciate it. Tanx much.
TJ
TJ,
The Jagdpanzer IV was a late-war design and so wouldn’t have ever been sprayed with panzer gray. The underlying primer coat would be Red Oxide and so any wear/chipping that would expose the primer color would show that color or oxidized bare metal if it chipped that far. Tamiya produces a Hull Red that some say is a close match to Red Oxide but if you do the salt method it’s probably going to make your model look like it had a very bad case of the measles. The salt method is usually best reserved for heavy chipping/wear like you would see on a white wash finish or similar “raggedy” looking schemes. Just my [2c].
[#ditto] Bill beat me to it!
Dear Leviathan:
I am no armour modeler, but I have done certain things. Dunkel gelb means dark yellow in german. A friend of mine, expert in all kind of models, Profr. Enrique Massagué, told us once that dark yellow was also a primer, so many vehicles had it like a base. I asked him if I shuld paint the inner surfaces of a kubelwagen in German grey, and he told me not to do so. He told me to spray Dark yellow directly. With tanks I understand it’s different. Inner surfaces I know were white (ask someone else, 'cause I’m new to it). About the chipping, usually steel oxidizes, so maybe grey is not the main, or at least the only choice. Perhaps rust color or something like it, and you will also need special effects.
Greetings from Mexico,
Polikarpov Mesteño