I am now going to paint the overall color of the waiste gunning positions in the Lady Be Good, and I need to know how to make Interior Green using Tamiya Paints. I am hoping to get some answers by the end of today so the basic color can be painted on, and I can begin weathering it.
Thanks, I know you guys will come throught for me.
Vintage Aircraft[:D]
I was reading an article over at the stokholm ipms website. Basically, it boils down to taking a chrome yellow and adding black to it to formulate the green tint.
I know it’s not Tamiya paint specific, but in theory it shouldn’t matter.
Hope this helps
How do you make chrome Yellow?
Is Tamiya the only paint line you have available to you? If it is, that sucks. Tamiya has probably the smallest and most useless line of colors available from any of the manufacturers. They don’t correspond to any FS or RLM numbers. If having to use acrylics is mandatory for you, I would look into Polly Scale, Model Master, Vallejo or Color of Eagles paints. They have the colors you are looking for right off the shelf.
Vintage Aircraft;
Here’s a couple of “recipes.” The first one is from a Tamiya Wildcat using Tamiya colors. 2 parts flat yellow to 1 part flat green.
The second one is from a Hasagawa Val using Gunze-Sangyo Aqueous Hobby Color or Mr. Color paints. 70% yellow, 15% green and 15% brown. Have used both and they look pretty similar to my eye.
I would suppose either formula would work with any paint provided they were compatible.
Good Luck,
Steve
Vintage, you’d be better off using MM aneamels or acrylics, since both types are readily available almost anywhere.
Tamiya recommend XF-5 but its way to dark. So I’d add a fair bit of yellow to it, to brighten it up. The best way to do it is just to keep adding yellow until it looks right to you. There wasn’t really a standard for interior green, so anything in the ballpark should do.
Another thing is, the chrome yellow with black mentioned by wibhi2 doesn’t work. I tried it once and it just gives you a darker yellow. It may have worked with the Zinc chromate and Lamp black during the war but Tamiya paints are formulated much differently.
Tamiya paints are very limited in the range of colours available, so maybe if they are available near you, try another brand that has specific FS colours. Gunze acrylics are good, so are Modelmaster. I only ever use the basic tamiya colours now and use Gunze Acrylics for all FS and RLM colours.
Hope this helps.
I’d say if you want to play around with yellow Tamiya, I’d try adding flat sea blue until you get a green. It still might not blend to dark green. Just because a standard color blending chart says something will work, that’s only if you are mixing colored light, not real-world pigment, to get another color. In other words, it’s abstract, like math. Paint pigments used by all these manufacturers don’t behave like color mixing charts say they will. Trial and error is the only way I’ve ever gotten anywhere mixing for a specific shade. Why don’t you but some interior green in the closest shade you can find to the one you want and add black or white until you’re happy with it? I mean, there’s at least a half-dozen interior greens I could name off the top of my head.
TOM
I’ve used the recipe that Steve mentioned on my Tamiya Wildcat – 2 parts XF-3 to 1 part XF-5, and it matches real well to the pics I have of the Wildcat. Of course, that being said, I’m not sure if the interior of the Wildcat was painted “interior green”.
-Jonathan
Personally, I use the MM "interior green when necessary or a slightly darker green zinc chromate. I know that pastels and powdered oil color base will mix in a very similar fashion as to what was suggested in the article.
I dunno about acrylics.
You can also try Grunze-Sanyo and Humbrol lines if they are available. You may (if fully motivated) may want to check out the color selections of tube paint at your local art supply store. The ranges of color are phenominal.
Hope this isn’t too late. Our cable service was down almost all of last night.
I posted this formula for “USN Interior Green” using Tamiya acrylics some time back. The feed back I got was “a touch of black” helped.
XF3 - Flat Yellow (2 parts) + XF5 - Flat Green (1 part).
Here’s a link to a Tamiya paint chart:
http://www.ipmsstockholm.org/colorcharts/stuff_eng_colorcharts_tamiya.htm
Vintage,
if you are still thinking, the Tamiya ‘recipe’ given by jridge, Steve & jblittle is a good one.
here it is on my Wildcat interior.
probably some ‘color shift’ due to my lame photo skills, but pretty close
i cant tell you the exact ratio, but i used to mix in a little green with yellow and add a touch of gray as well. i use to use tamiya acrylics quite often til’ i got tired of mixing every color i needed for a project. later.
Vintage;
My mistake; thought you wanted interior green instead of the yellow.
Sorry,
Steve
Wow thanks for all of the help, I have printed off the page and am going to start experimanting with the mixtures. Also to answer the question why I only have and use Tamiya paint, the answer is because I do alot of my own color mixing and never use anything out if the bottle, due to the fact that nothing I build will have that nice factory fresh look to it, infact I hate that factory fresh look, it is so idealistick, i mean combat aircraft never look like that. So making my own colors based on pictures works just fine for me. And another reason is they dont give me headaches, the other paints fumes do. And it is easy to clean the brushes, no thinner required.
Again thanks for the help you guys.
Vintage Aircraft