I am fairly new to model building and purchased my first Minicraft Piper Cherokee 140. I was surprised to see that it is one step up from a snap-together kit. Anyway I’ll build it because I like private aircraft.
The instructions list the paint colors as C, F, H, I, J, K and L, but does not include a conversion chart. What colors do these represent and how would I convert them over to Tamiya acrylic?
I’m not sure. I’ve never seen a minicraft kit without a color key. Welcome By the way.
I’ll try to figure that out for you. Welcome to the forum!! By the way I like your quote and your animation.
Thank you for the complements AJACKETSFAN.
Both the wife and myself checked the box, in the box, and the instructions, there is no color key. I am not familiar with Minicraft so I don’t know it this is normal or not. Thank you for any help.
I just checked my minicraft Bonanza kit directions, and it shows the same thing!!! I never even noticed!! I work on General aviation planes (Pipers, Bonanzas, Cessna, etc), so I used personal photo references. I would just do a google search, and check out some real images for your color references, as I can not for the life of me figure out their codes either!!
What are those codes like? Can you post them here, might be able to help.
I contacted the Minicraft Customer Service and was told that they are “phasing out the color schemes on all their private aviation models”. The reason I was told was because there was too many different colored aircraft no two were alike and no standard could be found. The instructions are showing what needs to be painted but it is up to the modeler to decide which colors to use.
I was also told this change just started recently and because older models have not cycled through color keys are still in some kits.
Well at least you have some artistic license now… not that you didn’t before. The sky’s the limit.