What is this color? I thought it was a flat overcoat, but it wasn’t… its like a cream color or something.
What is it used for? Just normal color but named wrong?
Just an additive to convert a gloss colour to flat. I’m not 100% sure of the mix ratio though…I’ve never used it.
I am not sure if that number is correct tho… XF-21 is a color called Flat Sky.
But that right about the Flat Base…
Good point naplak … didn’t even pick up on the number. Now I’ll have to dig my handy dandy Tamiya colour chart out.
And the survey says XF-21 = sky X-21 = Flat Base
Tamiya’s Flat Base is, indeed, an additive to make gloss colors flat. I found this out the hard way when the Tamiya paints first came out.
I was about 12-14, somewhere in there, and I built a beautiful Monogram 48th P-47D in far east RAF colors (it was beautiful to a 12-year old, anyway!). I needed to tone down the decals and the gloss I had used under them. I was still brushing paint at this stage and I laid on a nice thick coat of Flat Base over the entire model.
Came back the next day and the whole thing had turned a rather inconsistent white, with some of the paint and markings barely showing thru! You live and you learn, but it gave me an idea which I have yet to try to this day. Perhaps someday in the near future I shall build a Bf 109 in temporary winter camo…
Fade to Black…
Yep, it’s an additive for other paints to make them flat. You can add X-21 flat base to Future (about 10-20%) in varying amoungs and create a flat or semi-gloss coat out of it. My experiments showed that going above about 20% resulted in more of a ‘cloudy’ clear coat rather than a ‘flat’ clear coat.
M.