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AFV Painting & Weathering
Answers to questions about the right paint scheme or tips for the right effect.
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Italian Gray Green
long_tom
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Illinois, United States
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Posted: Saturday, December 06, 2014 - 05:36 PM UTC
According to this website:

http://www.paint4models.com/#

Model Master SAC Bomber Green matches, or at least is close to, the WW2 Italian Gray Green of Italian armor. I haven't been able to find any color pictures of Italian armor in that color, but I assume my references are correct?
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Posted: Wednesday, December 31, 2014 - 04:54 AM UTC
Tom, not sure if this helps, but I painted this M13/40 in that scheme, and used the picture in the background of this shot to produce the color on the model.



I tried to match the colour by mixing Tamiya XF-61 Dark Green and XF-69 NATO Black, with a small amount of X-3 Royal Blue; not too sure about the proportions, but the resulting colour was actually very similar to Revell enamel 40.
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Posted: Thursday, January 01, 2015 - 02:27 AM UTC
Have you tried Tamiya Field Grey XF-65 over a light primer it looks the part to me
just a thought
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