Questions for WWII Luftwaffe experts!

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[:)] Hi all,

I have never built or painted any german WWII aircraft before and I now have 5 kits begging for my attention[8D]

So here’s my questions:

  1. Anyone know the Humbrol enamel equivelents for RLM Nos?

  2. Do any of you have an unwanted decal sheet for a JU 88C-6? My kit is a winter scheme and I’d like to do a grey camo scheme instead. I’ve tried loads of sites, but all the sheets I like are out of print[V] Any help on this one would be much appreciated[;)]

  3. How do you paint your mottle paint schemes? Freehand or masking?

  4. Any good reference sites/books I might find useful?

Does this guy want you to build the kit for him too?[:D] Nope. I know it’s a lot to ask for, but any help on one or more of the above would be of great help[:I]

Many thanks,

Darren.[;)]

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Hello Darren,

Answer 1 : I don’t heve the equivalent of the RLM numbers, but I do have chart to find the Humbroll equivalent of the paintnumbers you find on your instruction (what manufaterer is it ?) You can find the chart on my website…

Answer 2 : nope, no decalsheet…
Answer 3 : normally, it shouldn’t be a problem to do the mottle freehand when using a fine airbrush, there are photo-etched “masks” on the market to do this, but that is a bit of overkill I think.
Answer 4 : this in the Internet, man, just type the name of the aircraft your interested in, and do a google on it, you’ll find plenty of usefull sites.
Answer4bis : if you have a program called e-mule, do a search on squadron, you will be amazed what you can download.

Oh, by the way, I’m not an expert [:)]

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Thanks Dan,

The kits I have are a mix of Revell/Monogram/Dragon and as I use Humbrol their paint Nos are a little difficult to compare with mine! I’ll check out your site, thanks for your help,

Darren.

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try this site:

www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/portland/971/reference/humbrol.htm

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Oh, forgot to mention : the reference chart is under “Projects” (yeah, I know, I have to do some cleaning up on my site)

The refencechart that DJ just gave, is better, go for that one.

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Dan, now you can update your list. If only a little!

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Dan,
that’s a great site you have there, the paint chart is just what I needed-a thousand thank-you’s sir!

Darren.

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Domi,
a thousand and one thank-you’s for the link! Now I can compare the lists to all my kit instructions and sort out all the colours that I’ll need. I’m gonna be buying a lot of little tins…