Hi chaps.
Following on from my Luftwaffe Paint Colours Revisited post
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Here is two photos of my 109 E3 painted in the Early Battle of Britain colous of RLM02/70/65 with RLM04 ID colours. These are 100% shade matched to genuine unfaded period chips as detailed in my luftwaffe post.
The Arado I built over the 2010/11 Christmas - New Year period purely as a test of the colours I had matched at that point and is the standard seaplane colours of RLM72/73/65V.1
I don’t profess to be a professional modeller - I still use a bog standard brush to slap paint on, but using my Nikon D700 and 24-70 2.8 lens and my MUNSELL and PANTONE colour matching standards in Photoshop CS5 Here are a couple of pics of my effort.
Trumpeter ME 109 E3
Revell Arado 196 Seaplane
I welcome comments and also build for fun!!!
James
James I don’t want you to think I’m stalking you but I managed to track you to here from your Luftwaffe Colors Thread & if I needed any convincing about the accuracy of your info, these have surely won me over, I’ve just discovered I need another Ar196.[;)] I’m not going to muddy the waters with discussion of scale effect .
As for being just a brush painter, I’d put these up against the best airbrush painted models, I could only hope to emulate your efforts.[:)]
Steve.
James, absolutely fantastic! Reading a book now about the BoB and since having a real like for 109’s, your’s is smashing. [B] I also like the Arado, may have to pick that one up.
Awesome builds…love the paint job on them
Thanks for the comments chaps
If I may comment on the scale colour conversion:
I have two schools of thought on this. the first one is that a colour is a colour no matter what scale you are painting. THe second one is that there may me some merit to this, but to keep consistancy and historical accuracy you do need the genuine shade to begin with and that is what the two aircraft are painted in.
I also realise and acknowledge the fadeing of colours when the aircraft are in use. You still need the original shades to start with though and this is what I am providing the community with.
I have just started Revells 1/32 JU-88 and will be painting it up as follows
INTERIOR
RLM 02 overall with control panels in RLM66. Eduards interior set will also be used.
EXTERIOR
RLM 70 / 71 / 65v.1 as per BoB splinter camouflage.
Look out for another thread soon
James
modellers that use only paint brush are in extinction… i’m another hand brusher.
cannot speak about the match of color but to me seems good both planes.
general finish is really good i like it [Y]
me too need an arado!!!
As far a scale effect is concerned I admit to a foot in both camps, I like a model to look smart & factory fresh, but this might be just a sop to my lack of skills regarding fading & weathering. I think it also depends on the scheme being portrayed, some, such as Bob, Western Europe & many maritime schemes look better factory fresh to my mind, mainly I think because aircraft often didn’t get a chance to grow old & the envoronment wasn’t particularly harsh on finishs. Desert schemes, Eastern Front schemes & Pacific/Far East schemes I think do repay at least a bit of fading, they were harsh environments & often used semi prepared strips so a factory fresh scheme looks a bit out of place. There are of course exceptions to all of this.
Cybermodeller seems to say the scale effect lessens the larger the scale, I’ve not tried it but your 1/32 scale aircraft shouldn’t need much James & to my eye looks spot on. Your point about the correct shades to begin with is well made & now easier with your matching of the RLM - Vallejo colors, its a happy thing that they’re so nice to use & I have a convenient supply of them.[:)]
I’ll be looking forward to your Ju 88 James.
Steve.