Gigatron
Sr Member
Hey gang,
Been working on some Fine Molds models and I'm working on a TIE right now. I need to come up with an Imperial blue/greay color. I came up with a way that's passable, but there has to be something easier. FM just says spray the model with gunze sangyo 338 (which works out to tamiya x-63, light gray), but we all know the original models had a light blue tinge to them.
So what I've been doing is mixing a base of 95% white and 5% medium blue. After that's dry, I make up a batch of very thin medium blue (about 80% thinner to 20% blue). I spray this on top of the base in a very light coat. This has resulted in a color very close to the filming models. But there has to be an easier, more reproduceable way to get the correct color.
Does anyone here know of a readily available color (preferably tamiya acrylic) that will work? Or a simple color combination?
How about for the x-wing base color? It' something off-white, but not quite gray.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
-Fred
Been working on some Fine Molds models and I'm working on a TIE right now. I need to come up with an Imperial blue/greay color. I came up with a way that's passable, but there has to be something easier. FM just says spray the model with gunze sangyo 338 (which works out to tamiya x-63, light gray), but we all know the original models had a light blue tinge to them.
So what I've been doing is mixing a base of 95% white and 5% medium blue. After that's dry, I make up a batch of very thin medium blue (about 80% thinner to 20% blue). I spray this on top of the base in a very light coat. This has resulted in a color very close to the filming models. But there has to be an easier, more reproduceable way to get the correct color.
Does anyone here know of a readily available color (preferably tamiya acrylic) that will work? Or a simple color combination?
How about for the x-wing base color? It' something off-white, but not quite gray.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
-Fred
