help with tank colors

[peterairfix]

I am making the tamiya mk5 chieftain but i have use the colors reccomended on the box but i doesnt look right so if any one can reccomend the best colors i will be most gratful but i cant post any pics as mr computer is dead

 

[CDW]

I always just mix my own on the premise that if it looks right ..... it's close enough

If you take the original colour and paint a model with it most of the time it doesn't look realistic, you'll have read on here that people adjust colours to "scale them down".

as an example if you look at the model cars painted with the rattlecans of actual carpaint, they always seem to look darker and a fuller colour.

There's a difference in colours coming from the factory too, i've noticed colour differences in lines of military vehicles waiting to be deployed.

at the end of the day i dont think it matters a great deal to be honest.

 

[rememal]

You should ignore the Green on Green camo in the instructions.

The most common colours were Green with large Black stripes, in no particular pattern.

Or you could do the BATUS scheme of Green and Sand stripes.

Very early Chieffies came in Deep Bronze Green all over.

I won`t mention the Berlin Urban Camo Scheme.

Malc.

 

[peterairfix]

Cheers chaps for your help when i have my computer running again i will put some pics up i might even try a dio

peter