discussion Desert colours?

[Adrian "Marvel" Reynolds]

I'm looking to do some desert camo on an A-10 the colours that I want to do are

Light F.S 23617

Med F.S 30257

Dark F.S 30118

I have all the Tamiya range as that's what I prefer to paint in and don't plan to buy any other range of colours, so I was thinking that perhaps

XF55 for the Light

XF 59 for the Med

XF 52 + XF 51 for the dark?

Would this be close to the F.S colours?

Here's an idea of what I'm trying to achieve

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Thanks in advance for any guidance

Adrian

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[Alan 45]

Adrian if you were talking humbrol and revell I could help you out best I can say is those colours are close to dark earth , light tan and beige but I couldn't give you the exact numbers for tamiya paints sorry

 

[Ian M]

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[Adrian "Marvel" Reynolds]

www.paint4models.com

Tried there, it never has any matching ones in Tamiya, well it seems to miss a lot of the ones I always look for

Adrian

 

[Guest]

Looking at the picture, I'd say the light colour is closest to XF-57 Buff, and the other two as you've already said Adrian.

Cheers

Patrick

 

[Adrian "Marvel" Reynolds]

I tried the Buff and I'm not too keen on the outcome, though it may alter slightly once the darkest colour is added I guess, would welcome so feedback and suggestions hopefully without having to respray it

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The colours shown are Tamiya XF 57 Buff and XF 59 Desert Yellow.

Adrian

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[Alan 45]

It's looking good Adrian maybe a slightly more brown wash might get you the colour your after

 

[Guest]

These are the colours or at least 2 of the conversion to Tamiya I used on the MH-60 XF59 or XF57 for the sand colour XF52 for the earth colour and Valejo which I could not convert 983 for the other brown.

I guess you could use XF-57 Buff, XF-52 Flat Earth and XF-68. That would give a nice three tone desert camo. I dont think it would be to far off what you are after Adrian.

The last three I am currently employing to get a desert camo dpm and it looks good.