I have been looking for a good red color for my titanic model, i bought some cheap paint, color name was English Red. which was pretty dark, but i thought id give it a try, i have this very small lego titanic model where i tested the paint on, but it turned out way to dark. What could you suggest? maybe even just buy normal red and making it a little darker? And what would be the best way to make it darker?
I like this combination: Model Master Insignia Red 170608, 60%,
Model Master Rust 1785, 40%. Mixture.
If you head over to Titanic-model.com , in their reference section you’ll find a “recommended paint” list. What is recommended is Rustoleum Red Primer, but since Rustoleum is scarce in that color, I and most everyone else use Krylon Red Primer.
The reason they recommend THAT color is to take into account “scale effect”. There is no reason you couldn’t use whatever color you like, though. It’s purely modelers choice. whatever “floats your boat”.
Which kit are you building?
I like the Rustoleum stuff. It’s usually on the shelf at Ace. The Ace house brand is useful too, but it’s pretty bright. Here I used Rustoleum on the hull and Ace for the topsides.
More Rustoleum:
Other good options are anything in the railroad colors called “Boxcar Red”.
Im building the 1:700 from academy, multi colored pieces, since i am a beginner to this, but the propellor shafts are black for some reason, but i dont want it to look off from the hull itself so im gonna repaint the whole lower hull, so its one solid red color, not 2 different shades of red, im also making a small model from wood atm, almost done and going to paint it soon, ill test around with red on that model, then go back to the kit.
Tnx for your help 
I like this mixture: 60% Model Master Insignia Red and 40% Model Master Rust (1785).
It may be the same stuff you are talking about, but I use a dark, low saturation red called British Crimson (Model Master).
White Ensign WEMCC US14 for WWII Norfolk 65A antifouling red, and WEMCC M06 modern US Navy antifouling red works well too.
EJ
Hi:
this is what I did with my Titanic . I used a mix of 50% Model Master Rust and 50 % model Master Regular Flat Red . The color looks good because it looks newish without looking silly bright . You Never want a ship bottom to look to bright .Call it scale effect if you want to . T.B.