I’m going through my paint stock and have come across quite a stockpile of Yamiya XF-57 Buff. I can’t for the life of me remember what I bought all of this color for. Can someone help a forghetful old fart out and give me some ideas where this color is called out?
And while we’re on the subject of paint, boy has this been an eye opening experience. I have so many multiple bottles of paint I could be called a borderline hoarder. Re the Buff, I have 10 full 23 ml bottles of the stuff. I also have 6 full bottles of Tamiya red brown and I haven’t built any German WWII armor in years. All kinds of blues and yellows and reds and orange. Not just regular orange, I also have red-orange and clear orange. Where in the hell would you use red-orange in modeling, or in life in general for that matter?
It’s a good base color for wood decks on ships. If you were building the big 1/96 USS Constitution or USS Kearsarge, Cutty Sark, Thermopylae, or CSS Alabama you would want three or four bottles of it.
I use Buff for a lot of US aircraft applications like seat belts and lightening camo colors to get that faded effect. It’s good for a base color for natural wood effects as well.
Before I posted here, I did a Google search for buff color hoping that I would find a post somewhere that linked it to a use. All I found had people using it for dust and little bits and pieces. I was hoping to find some use that would have called for a lot of paint, just to justify why I would have bought ten bottles.
US Navy pilot uniforms from WW2, British tropical pilot uniforms. I think I orininally bought my bottle for the “gators” on US army soldiers. Tamiya called it out in the instructions, anyway.
Wow, sound like me buying four bottles flat white acrylic when just need one for weathering work.
Near decade ago bought whole bunch of Humbrol enamels for my Regia Aeronautica Italia builds, including 10 bottles of 125 Satin U.S. Dark Gray approximating Grigio Azzurro Scuro 3 (Dark Blue Gray) for wartime seaplanes, gave 6 away to Viking Hobby in Sacramento last summer, won’t be building many of them finished in this color.
When I buy paint for a project, I normally buy an extra bottle, just so I don’t run out. In the case of the buff, I have two seperate bottle and then theres two boxes of four bottles each. So I think I must have bought them at the same time, meaning I thought I was going to need A LOT of buff. Ha, I don’t know!
I don’t need all of these extra bottles of paint that I’m finding. I think I might try checking with a person that I donated a bunch of kits to a while back. It be a shame to just throw it all away, and I know that I won’t use it if I live another fifty years.
Buff was a popular color for warships in late 19th and early 20th century. If you build, for instance, Revell’s SMS Emden (WW1 cruiser) in its pre-war livery, you’ll use a lot of buff. Civil ships used to use it a lot for stacks and other above deck areas (i.e, Titanic).
When you say buff I’m thinking of Elfenbein, a soft creamy light ivory color used inside some German WWII tanks. MM enamel 2104 is called Panzer Interior Buff and is an excellent match.
Ah yes, Elfenbein. That’s what I was trying to re-create. I was doing mainly German WWII armor at one time. That’s what I bought the the Buff for. Thank you, plasticjunkie, and everyone else, for your help.
You are welcome cw and it’s better to have several of the the same than none at all! That just hapenned to me a couple of days ago thinking I had a particular color, only to discover I was out of it after returning from the lhs! [bnghead]
I’m finding a need right now for a “buff” color for two ship models, but tan just doesn’t do it- too low a saturation. I am going my normal route of mixing radome tan and flat yellow till I get the color I want.
Back a while ago, I was planning to build a 1/350 Scharnhorst; the one sunk at the Battle of The Falkland Islands.
I bought three jars each of Far East Squadron white and buff. Still have them as I haven’t built the kit. Funny how those paint stocks become a stash of their own.
I recently bought a kit of the Model Shipways Taurus tug that I found on a high shelf in a shop, for full retail. When I opened it to check for parts, there was a baggie with six Humbrol paint jars in it, no doubt bought for the kit.
You can pick up that Revell kit of the SMS Emden to use your white and buff for. I built mine as the pre-war livery. It was a pretty good kit, and good PE available. I picked up several trophies for that build. Some minor problems with main turrets but all in all a fine build.