Hi folks! [:)]
This is my first post here in the forums and I want to thank you all for the great tips and help that let me build more decent models and make this hobby a lot more fun and enjoyable for me!! I really learn a LOT about this hobby in the forums.
Now, I need your help on the next matter:
Does anybody knows ratios and colors necessary to achieve the RAF SKY for the spinner and fuselage band for an Spitfire?
Actually I´m building the Tamiya 1/48 Spitfire Mk Vb. And I realize that I don´t have that color, so I´m on a dead end cause I cant´t find it in my country.[xx(]
It seems like a lot of white and a little pale green with a drop of blue but I can´t figure it out, I´m working with Model Master enamels.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Tanks in advance.
Feli250
First, welcome to the forum !
Model Master produces an RAF “Sky Type S” color in enamel. Their stock # is 2049. This color is also listed as “ANA 610”
Hope this helps.
hey, HEY, hey!! welcome to the forum my friend!! only watch it, posting can become addictive as well!! hmmmmm…i wonder how many models i could’ve built if had used the time i have invested in posting!! seems that the pix is right on time and has your question all figured out for ya. again welcome. later.
There are two possibilities. One sky blue, which is simply a pale blue colour. The other, which is what it sounds like you are describing, is known as Sky Type S, which is more a sort of duck egg blue/green colour. I can’t find a reference for Model Master, but Humbrol HB05 or Xtracolor X7 are equivalents, or Aeromaster 9114. If you go to www.hannants.co.uk you should be able to find them
Thanks Pix!!
But the problem is that I cant´t get that color in my country and I can´t get it from the US because we have problems with our local customs…so I have to work with the stock of paints that I have…
Feli -
I use MM paints too - and I could try to figure out a ratio of other colors to mix to get Sky S and then compare it to the MM Sky-S that I have - but I don’t know what colors YOU have to work with.
Keep in mind that the following sentances are written by a complete amateur …
If I was in that situation - I would look at color photos of real planes or of models from this and other sites, and try to mix up my own. If you’re looking for super accuracy - you’d have to get a paint chip / color swatch type thing to compare your mix to. For me… I would just “eyeball it”.
You’re right on track as far as starting out with alot of white. It takes very little blue or green or yellow to make it TOO colorful. The way I usually start out is to use twenty or so drops of white (metered from a dropper) then add color in very small amounts - like one drop of blue. I mix it with a toothpick and see if it’s close to what I think the “blueness” should be. Then add more blue or more white to get the appropriate shade. But whatever you do - keep track of the ratio of colors ! Then I would add yellow - not green. I try to stick with the more basic colors. (When you add green - you’re really adding blue and yellow - maybe not in a ratio you need) I’m not really sure - but I would keep some gray on hand in case I needed to tone the color down a bit.
Once you come up with the proper ratio of color drops, you can multiply or divide the recipie to come up with an appropriate batch size. Another thing to keep in mind is that colors sometimes get slightly darker or lighter when they dry. Once I come up with a ratio I think is good - I brush some on a test piece and let it dry then adjust (usually by adding white).
I have run into the same situation with a different color - I will probably just wind up using the method described above to come up with the color of plain light tan/gray “linen” that was used on a Sopwith Snipe biplane. I don’t know of anyone that bottles that color.
Good Luck.
This formula is using Pactra paints, which are no longer made, but some of them are basic, and paint colors actually used varied by time, and batch any way
20 parts flat white
1 part flat yellow a dark yellow, identification yellow
2 parts chromate green apple green
1 part battleship gray kind of like dark gull gray
4 parts flesh a pink tone
I have never used this particular mix before, so I can’t swear by it. And I don’t know what colors you can get to match the ones I listed. Hope this helps. Good luck.
feli
Welcome aboard it would be helpful to us if you tell us were you are from and what paints you have at your disposal. I cannot personally help you but someone with more knowledge would be able to assist you more with more information.
saltydog Downboy.
Thank you so much for the answers guys!!!
I think I will try the procedures and the mixes suggested…
By the way I´m from Costa Rica (Central America)
Feli
let us know how this works. Do you have a FS color chip set? if you need to get an idea of what the color looks like, and don’t have one, go to www.squadron.com and do a search for testors sky blue. A color chip will come up that will give you an approximation of the color you are looking for.
Welcome, Feli!!! [#welcome]
You didn’t mention it, but what other paint brands are available in your country? May make it easier for us to suggest better color mixes and combinations…