Matching paint

Tools, Techniques, and Reference Materials Painting and airbrushing
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I am going to be doing an A-10 Warthog soon. On previous models I havent worried about matching paint to the actual color of the aircraft, if its a camo green I get close, but I dont try to get the real thing exactly, but I would like to try. How do I go about matching the paint to the plane? I dont even know what paint scheme I will be doing yet, leaning towards a gray scheme…Acrylics is my paint of choice fyi

Also, I recently did pre-shading, along the panel lines and then went over it with light shades of green for a P-38 I’m working on…turned out brilliantly! I will definitly be doing it again, when I do the preshading with black, can I just brush that on? My airbrush skills arent very tidy. Thanks guys!

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start with something like this chart set and profiles on Cybermodeler, that will give you the color numbers for your chosen paint scheme

www.cybermodeler.com/resource8.shtml

then, if you want some different recommendations for model paint matches, give this site a look

www.paint4models.com/…/paintconversionchart20100101d.htm

that will let you possibly use your favorite paint line, or try a new one

once you know the colors you want, then you can “do your own thing” with scale effect, shading, etc to get what you want

have fun

Rex