Khaki Green?

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I’m about to start working on my 1:72 Hasegawa F-15C Agressor. The paints list includes khaki green (H80 GSI Creo’s). I’ve searched the net for the paint but I can’t find it at hobby sites and the search turns up either olive drab or olive green. Is khaki green just a different term or will I have to mix paints to get that color?

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I know for fact Tamiya has the color Khaki green you’re looking for. Go to Tamiyausa.com, click on paints, Tamiya Color Mini Flat Acrylic and find XF-49.

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You won’t find Gunze H series(water based) paints in the U.S. You’ll have to cross it to another brand.

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Thanks guys.

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Tamiya Khaki, XF-49, is nothing like Gunze H80 Khaki Green. They are two completely different colors. I have both. Not is Tamiya Khaki Drab XF-51 close either. Do some research on the scheme itself and ost likely you will find that it is a more common US Federal Standard color used on other Aggressor schemes, and made by other paint makers that you can access.

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For H80 “Khaki Green” for US aircraft, give a look at FS 30118 Field Drab,I use LifeColor UA016 30118 Brown for this

I only have this because it is a Phantom seat back color for Hasegawa USN jets

Rex

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H80 is a rich dark olive green. Field Drab 30118 is a medium brown with a hint of green to it. Two completely different colors, but if H80 is the call out for the seat color, I would look for something else. Do some image searches for that particular type of ejection seat and make your own best educated choice.

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And I did. I started a deeper search and looked at photos of the seat of that particular aircraft and compared the color to an XF-49 swatch. I wasn’t happy. I did happen to find a shop across the pond (luckymodel.com) carrying Gunze H80 but their supply is quite low, and I’m betting Gunze no longer makes that color. I then searched for FS and found khaki green at cybermodeler.com under Color/Paints in their Color-Guides tab. The color is listed as FS34257 in the FS 595b link. I also found it listed here (FS# only): http://www.ipmsstockholm.org/colorcharts/stuff_eng_colorcharts_fs.htm

Here’s the thing though: CyberModeler gives a mixing scheme (using Humbrol) as 3 drops #34 White Matt, 2 drops #80 Grass Green Matt (enamel, no acrylic), 6 drops #83 Ochre Matt, and 2 drops #154 Insignia Yellow Matt.

IMPS’ scheme replaces #154 with 1 drop #99 Lemon Matt. I feel an experiment coming on, although I feel the differences is so slight it wouldn’t matter.

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That 34257 swatch (on colorserver.net) looks similar to Humbrol Khaki Drab, 159. Not a bad choice for Ejection Seat cushions. Or Humbrol Olive Drab 155 is good choice as well. Forest Green, 150 is a plausible choice as well.

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Yeah stik, I’ve used the Humbrol 159 and155 to paint seat cushions. Both, either one, looked pretty good to me.

Gary

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Thanks Stik

One of the benefits of having multiple people respond to a thread is that if I make a mistake,someone else comes along and corrects the info, helping both the OP and myself

I pulled the wrong index card out, one made in the earliest days of Hasegawa kit making,and after reading that it should be more 34257ish,I peeked into some cockpits on the shelf

I don’t know what I painted in there before,but, from now on it will be 34257 or at the very least the Faded Olive Drab that LifeColor has in their Olive Drab 6-color set. For anyone that wants to experiment a bit,LifeColor does have two different “almost 34257” paints in their range UA239 and UA240

Rex

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Youre welcome Rex. I have so many different Olive Drabs in my paint inventory that it is very easy to find a suitable shade for my bang seat cushions.