Tamiya XF-60 good dunkel gelb example?

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About ready to start painting my Brummbar. Never used Vallejo paints so I bought some and thought I’d try them out. Have their Model Air German brown and green. But I bought Model Color desert yellow for some reason. Rommel didn’t have any Brummbars so it won’t do. I do have some Tamiya Dark Yellow (XF-60) and if it’s a good match for gelb I think I could put a little Vallejo green into desert yellow and it would work pretty well. Problem is that I’ve never painted anything dunkel gelb so I’m not really sure what color I’m looking for. I’ve read that some armor gurus think XF-60 is a little too dark and could use a hint of green. Anyway it would be helpful to know what color I’m shooting for. XF-60 a good bench mark? (BTW: anyone ever looked at Pollyscale “UP Armor Yellow”? Looks pretty dunkel to me although I can’t imagine what Union Pacific would have been doing painting German tanks.)

Eric

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I like a mix of 50/50 Tamiya XF-60 Dark Yellow and XF-55 Deck Tan.

Everyone has their own personal preferences.

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XF-60 is a good match,but if you are going to filter or wash it.It will definitly be too dark.So as Phil says you need to lighten it for sure.

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I use Model Master Dark Yellow straight from a rattle-can… Looks good enough to me and nobody has ever said it was “wrong”… Plus, when you’re doing an overall single-color, it beats the airbrush hands down… After washes, drybrushing, and pastels, you can’t tell the difference anyway…

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Here’s my Dunkel Gelb mix:

One empty Tamiya paint bottle, half fill with XF-60, then fill the rest with XF-55 Deck Tan (about 40%) and add a touch of white (10% in my case but the white is optional).

A straight 50/50 mix of dark yellow and deck tan is just fine. Do NOT use XF-60 straight from the bottle for painting a tank - it will be waaaay too green (thanks to Phil h for giving me this recipe when I first started modelling last year).

Another good colour is Gunze ‘Sand Gelb’ straight from the bottle but well thinned with their own Lacquer Thinner.

This is what the Tamiya XF-60/XF-55 looks like:

I hope this helps. Remember to experiment and lighten up some yellows and darken some too - you don’t want a fleet of builds painted exactly the same shade!

ATVB

Ben [H]

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I hate to disagree with a master, but I have never noticed any problem when using it straight from the bottle.

IMO< It looks just fine; I used it on my Humvee. No one told me it was “too green” and I don’t see it as such.

Although, that Hetzer does look pretty good…

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Yeah, I learned a hard lesson on that one. Worked well when I never used to weather. LOL

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Humbrol 94. Humbrol, best paint ever.

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Actually, I use Tamiya’s Buff instead of the Dark Yellow. I think it gives it that faded/weathered look and is more realistic to my eye, but that is me. I think the Dark Yellow is a bit too bold…

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That ain’t a bad Idea, Hutch… I’ve gotta give that a try, since the bottle of Buff I got hasn’t been used much except GI web gear…