JMac
cut. glue. paint. repeat.
Thanks guys, I appreciate the positive comments.
It's a high-vis paint scheme :
Well ShutterAce that's a bit of a story. The instructions called for FS 15050 (MM 1772), but I'm not fond of the MM paints and I like to use Tamiya or Vallejo paints. I checked with Vallejos equivalencies (http://www.acrylicosvallejo.com/pdf_web/CC073_rev03.pdf) but that did not seem to have a good match. So I checked the Scale model paint data base (http://scalemodeldb.com/paint) and the closest Vallejo paint to the FS 15050 according to the database was MC70930-Dark Blue. I went out to my LHS and picked up a bottle. When I painted it over a black primer coat, and it looked way light. Back to the LHS, and I picked up the next darker shade of blue. Back home and the paint still looked too light after the second coat. I started to look at Tamiyas paint, the Tamiya kit calls for a colour from the spray can, but its too cold for that here right now. So I settled on good old XF-8 Flat blue. Truth be told it looks darker on my desk right now than it did in the picture, I think the flash from the camera bleached it a bit. Still it's a lot lighter than the picture Norm posted, but fairly close to the box art.
Live and learn. Next time, there is always next time...
Jason (JMac)
ShutterAce said:
It's a high-vis paint scheme :
Well ShutterAce that's a bit of a story. The instructions called for FS 15050 (MM 1772), but I'm not fond of the MM paints and I like to use Tamiya or Vallejo paints. I checked with Vallejos equivalencies (http://www.acrylicosvallejo.com/pdf_web/CC073_rev03.pdf) but that did not seem to have a good match. So I checked the Scale model paint data base (http://scalemodeldb.com/paint) and the closest Vallejo paint to the FS 15050 according to the database was MC70930-Dark Blue. I went out to my LHS and picked up a bottle. When I painted it over a black primer coat, and it looked way light. Back to the LHS, and I picked up the next darker shade of blue. Back home and the paint still looked too light after the second coat. I started to look at Tamiyas paint, the Tamiya kit calls for a colour from the spray can, but its too cold for that here right now. So I settled on good old XF-8 Flat blue. Truth be told it looks darker on my desk right now than it did in the picture, I think the flash from the camera bleached it a bit. Still it's a lot lighter than the picture Norm posted, but fairly close to the box art.
Live and learn. Next time, there is always next time...
Jason (JMac)
Did you paint the stripes or are they decals? Hard to say through pictures what blue you have there but in a small scale, lighter colour is good! Great corsair JMac!!
