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Title: Acrylic paints for the green and purple on the wings of an Albatros
Post by: bluemax on January 08, 2015, 06:50:20 AM

Hi all, I am currently building a WNW Albatros DV and need help in selecting the wing colours as the instructions don't appear to be correct? I use and have access to Tamiya or Gunze/Mr Hobby Acrylic paints.

Any help appreciated.

Cheers

Anthony

Title: Re: Acrylic paints for the green and purple on the wings of an Albatros
Post by: lcarroll on January 08, 2015, 09:46:32 AM

Anthony,
    I used Tamiya on my last Albatros DV Build as follows:
Purple - 4 parts X16 Purple to 1 part X4 Blue and;
Green - XF67 Nato Green straight out of the bottle.
   The colours seemed to match the profiles I had in several publications. Here's the results for reference......

(http://i1141.photobucket.com/albums/n583/lcarroll1/IMG_1716.jpg) (http://s1141.photobucket.com/user/lcarroll1/media/IMG_1716.jpg.html)

(http://i1141.photobucket.com/albums/n583/lcarroll1/IMG_1735.jpg) (http://s1141.photobucket.com/user/lcarroll1/media/IMG_1735.jpg.html)

    Hope this is of some help, not the perfect solution but to my eyes pretty likely!
Cheers,
Lance

Title: Re: Acrylic paints for the green and purple on the wings of an Albatros
Post by: RAGIII on January 08, 2015, 09:55:05 AM

Mister kit makes pre mixed acrylic colors that are decent. Also if you can find them Polyscale did a German Mauve and Green. Otherwise I think WNW gives Mixtures for the colors using Tamiya Acrylics.
RAGIII

Title: Re: Acrylic paints for the green and purple on the wings of an Albatros
Post by: kornbeef on January 09, 2015, 03:44:31 AM

Check out Citadel range from games workshop. They changed the colours and names recently so I'm not sure what one would work but I really like their paints. (some good colours for personal markings too)

Keith

Title: Re: Acrylic paints for the green and purple on the wings of an Albatros
Post by: bluemax on January 11, 2015, 06:32:52 AM

thanks guys. Lance I like the look of your colours and may run with them

Cheers

Anthony

Title: Re: Acrylic paints for the green and purple on the wings of an Albatros
Post by: drdave on January 11, 2015, 06:36:52 AM

I like that too Lance. Very effective. The mister kit mauve is a bit insipid for my taste.

Title: Re: Acrylic paints for the green and purple on the wings of an Albatros
Post by: lcarroll on January 11, 2015, 09:29:42 AM

    On my monitor the purple shows quite "bluish" certainly more towards blue then in actual appearance. The green section shows "bang on". I recall when I finished the model I thought a slightly lighter shade of purple may have been closer, might be worth mixing a bit and trying it on a test piece?
Cheers,
Lance

Title: Re: Acrylic paints for the green and purple on the wings of an Albatros
Post by: ALBATROS1234 on January 11, 2015, 04:59:09 PM

my favorite out of the bottle is the pollyscale german mauve. misterkit is too violet. its more of a pinkish violet thats why its called mauve i spose. i used model master napoleonic violet mixed with british crimson to taste and that was ok before i was able to get the pollyscale bottles. they are out of production though.