Does anyone know who makes malachite green paint or how to mix it up,I need to paint the interior of a Japanese Zero.Thanks
G’day,
Xtra Colour, make both the blue and green interior primer’s for the Japanese aircraft, the only on line place that lists this is hannants in the U.K if you can’t purchase the colour’s, you can mix the green by using aluminium and clear green on a 10 to 1 paint mix. The same would work for the blue colour, the xtra colour paints are a gloss finish, the clain to thin with white spirit’s, [which takes days to cure], I use this brand of paint for a good 70% of my builds and I thin it with lacquer thinner which dries in hours.
Rob.
what are white spirits…happy ghost’s??
Jeff, are you pulling my gullible leg about turpentine? We have to cut Rob some slack, him bein one o’ them Aussies on the other side of the world. They got that mineral spirits thing from those Brits and their high blown use of the language. I loved Xtracolor when you could still find it here. They deliberately made commonly flat colors glossy to cut out a step before decal application. At least, that’s what they advertised when the brand first appeared. They matched colors beautifully to specs, for that new-plane look, or as a start for heavy weathering. And, they had impossible to find colors, like WW II Soviet, etc. But, as the man said, particularly if you live in a humid climate, they take literally weeks to cure sometimes. I have the same problem, though, with MM glosses, especially whites. I dread having to paint anything white with any brand of paint, though.
tom
Here is the most complete section on WW II Japanese colors I have found.
http://j-aircraft.com/research/colormix.htm
This one is especially useful.
http://j-aircraft.com/research/joerncolor.htm
Hope this helps.
Me??? Pull your leg??? maybe [;)]. Actually I had a few aussie acquiantences and knew what he meant ( I had a bottle of that brown icky stuff you aussie slap on toast, how can you stand it?!?).