I am going to build my first car! And I want it to be plaid!

Modeling Subjects Autos
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I bought a williams f1 team bmw fw24, and I wanted to paint it in an interesting scheme. The scheme I am thinking about is burberry plaid. In order to do this without ordering too many kinds of paint I need some advice on what colors I should buy without buying too much( I just got into the hobby). I plan on buying 9 colors. The plaid appears to have 5 colors on it. The ones I were going to use were:
-X-31 Titanium Gold
-X-18 Semi Gloss Black
-X-21 Flat Base
-X-7 Red
-XF-59 Desert Yellow

What other 4 colors should I get to paint all the other pieces? Do you think I can replicate the plaid with better colors? Is this idea too crazy?

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I ordered the paint already. The paint I finally decided to use was some vallejo acyrlics.

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That’s going to look Soooooooo COOL.

You have to post some pics when you are done.

Bud

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I’m interested to see how this turns out, be sure to post pix as you go along.

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Sure thing fellas, I just got my airbrush in yesterday and so I just have to wait on the paint.

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pics will be up soon

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Sorry about the wait but work was complicating things a bit. I am going to have to buy some better tape because the low tack stuff doesn’t seem to work to well for the model paint. Other than that tell me what you guys think.

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Cool so for keep it up

Bud

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Can’t wait to see the finish

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I started adding more lines to the car last night but I ended screwing some things up do to my airbrush. Stupid thing keeps on sputtering for some reason.

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pictures of the damage [:(]


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What kind ofairbrush do you have? Make sure everything is clean and your paint is free of “boogers” and is properly thinned (milk thickness) and correct pressure depending on the thickness of the paint this can be anything from 5-60 PSi. Hope this helps.