Working on my first model since I was about 15 (10 years ago) and I selected Tamiya’s He-219 A-7 Uhu. I’m building it straight out of the box and getting used to using an airbrush. I painted the cockpit last night and after some research chose to paint the interior of the office in RLM 66 as typical of late war German Aircraft. I sprayed her with Pollyscale Scale Black (RLM 66) and now looking at it after it’s good and dry the paint seems to be entirely too dark. Is this the correct color? I’ll post some photos later tonight for reference. I’m planning on building the two tone Uhu with the black lower surface and 75 over 76 mottling on the upper surfaces, however, I was planning on using the scale black (RLM 66) for the lower surfaces. That’s what makes me think the color is too dark in the cockpit.
Mark, welcome back to modeling. I’ve never used Pollyscale paints. I use Model Masters enamel RLM66 ( schwarzgrau ) which I’m happy with. Is one darker than the other , I don’t know. I have a site you may want to save: http://ipmsstockholm.org/colorcharts/colorcharts.asp Look around this site ,its got a lot of info. The Uhu kit is a good one. Good luck & good day [:D] [8D] [:D] ART
That actually looks to be the same color I used last night. I was expecting it to be more gray than black but she turned out more black than I was expecting and that scared me a little. I’ve already detailed most of the cockpit and I’ll post some photos later.
If whatever color they say that is, is dark enough to be called anything close to a “black” it is too dark. RLM66 is a dark grey but I would say closer to a battleship gray than a black… even a faded black on a weathered aircraft underside.
Looking on the IPMS stockholm color charts, the color I sprayed looks very similar to RLM 66. Perhaps the lighting is too faded where I’m painting and that’s making it look black. The color looks approximately like this…
This is Model Master enamel straight from the bottle and it is even reasonably close to the pre-painted Edaurd cockit PE stuff. the 190 pic is a little dark and the He111 interior has been washed but you can see it still isn’t that dark
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