What the heck is blue-green? I can’t find a FS number for it, and I want my Spitfire to be the right colors, it wants this for the cockpit… (Unless Revell is wrong on this? )
Save me?
And also, feild brown, I have a Tamiya flat brown, but it looks like it’s too dark…
I know someone out there has had to do a Spit before, so, if you remember what paints you used, TELL ME!!! Or I shall hurt you 
Then again, maybe all the color names are wrong shrugs Help me anyway
Well, if it is a Spitfire I doubt there is an FS color for it since it’s a British plane. My guess would be try Humbrol colors and try to find a match through various conversion charts you can find on the web by doing a search. I’ll look myself for some of this and get back to you.
I left a post on LEM giving you some guidance. Hope it helps.
Regards, Rick
I saw
I did mine with model master RAF Interior green.
Looks good to me - but I’m not picky
Boss man has it right, also Floquil has the color too, it’s accually called British Interior Green or RAF Interior Green ( in Testors MM lingo ) I think Humbrol now has the color too. but Aero Master accually ran the color first and now they went the way of the Do-Do
I sure miss those Aeromaster paints. And I can’t wait to try the new Xtracrylics the Brits are putting out these days. However, they are gonna be rare as hen’s teeth anywhere near where I live, and I’m not ready to go get an international money order and get the stuff from Hannant’s.
But, to the topic, what kind of Spitfire kit could conceivably call out a shade called “blue-green” and, though not quite as bizarre, “field brown” when obviously they mean “dark earth.” What he’s got there is a standard early-war, Battle of Britain-type “sand-and-spinach” scheme, and the colors are normally called out as “dark green” and “dark earth.” I may be wrong on the green, but I don’t think so. What are they asking you to paint the belly? “Overcast Type S”?
Tom
Sharky, I’m a girl, for one
And the kit in question is the Revell 1/48 (Copyright dates are 94 on it, if that narrows it down… Dunno if they made any other Spits )
Hi there
Ex RAF here,
British interior green is quite a common colour in the model paint lines.
Humbrol 78
Model Master Acryl is 4850
Dark Earth (ANA 617) is :
Humbrol 26
Model Master Acryl 4846
Dark Green is
Humbrol 30
Model Master Acyrl 4849
Sky Type S (ANA 610) is
Humbrol 90
Model master Acryl 4840
Hope this helps some
Here is a pic of my Spitfire Mk I
Did you notice that you all spelled Colour wrong? except for “leitch”
Sorry for being a smartass…
Sharkskin, if you would like to get those Xtracrylics, they are available from TwoBobs at www.twobobs.net.
Well, Sgt. Andy shares a surname with the legendary Donovan, so he’s okay in my book. He makes a darned nice looking Spit, too. Thanks for putting that classic color scheme in coherent form for (forgive my sexism – I’m really not like that, Akuma, I promise) the enquiring modeler, though I’m still intrigued by what kind of Hurricane Revell would have been putting out in '94, unless it is a reboxing of the Hasegawa one I was blithering on about above. There’s a pretty sure way to tell. Is the nose separate from the fuselage, and are the connecting places these sort of odd protruding slots that fit inside the nose section? That’s how the Hasegawa Hurricane goes together, and it’s a rather unusual construction that I think I’ve only seen Hasegawa use. I mean, the ProModeller Blue Angels A-4 is a reboxed Hasegawa A-4F kit, and it sure doesn’t look like anything original Revell-ish I ever saw.
In fact, really old guys like me, who started modeling as mere tykes in the 60s, can remember when you could tell a Revell model just by smelling it. I swear this is true. I can still remember that divine plastic smell when you opened a brand new Revell kit and there before you were revealed the magical parts, in some bizarre color that vaguely matched the real color of the airplane, since back then, they didn’t even call out the color of the fuselage or wings. They just had these little flags by the tires that said “black” and next to the gear legs the flag would say “silver,” and the pilot figure, who was a really important gut because his presence under the canopy hid the fact that there was not cockpit, well, this little plastic fellow got lots of little flags next to him, including one that said “flesh.” Yes, this was back in the days when it was assumed that everyone who had flesh had the same color flesh and that was the color Testor’s sold in those little bottles. Aw, heck, I’m babbling again…nurse, can you bring an old man his pills, please…
Tom
Those of us who are older than dirt ( we had to break rocks up to make dirt to play in AND walk two miles to school uphill etc) annd started in the 50’s, took a looong hiatus for the service and raising kids and have gotten back decades later have really been amazed by all the changes…we loved the pilot thingie in place of the cockpit…there was a list of parts in with every mosdel that you could check off missing or damaged parts on ( QC? WHAT’sQC), mail to the company and get replacements (read extras & spares) in the return mail…& yes the smell was special
Bruce