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Autoblinda 43 - Italian police red colour?
melbar16
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Dublin, Ireland
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Posted: Monday, January 12, 2015 - 11:57 PM UTC
Hello all
The Italeri Autoblinda 43 has a nice scheme option for an Italian Police version in the 1950's with an overall scheme, labelled in the instructions as 'Gloss Dark Red'.
They don't give a Modelmaster colour for this like they usually do.
What is your opinion of the shade of red? I can't find any pics online of this scheme. I'm thinking a 3:1 mix of Red Brown:Red but this is just a speculative guess on my part
Have any of you talented bunch build this little darling?
Maybe someone can advise on the shade of red.
THANK YOU ALL AGAIN!
DG
pseudorealityx
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Posted: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 - 01:18 AM UTC
If you do a google image search for

"Red italian police car", you'll get some results of vehicles that look like they were around in the 1950's in a dark red gloss color.

That would be my starting point.

Like this:

melbar16
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Posted: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 - 02:53 AM UTC
Thanks Jesse
That sure is a sweet looking motor in the pic that you attached! Really nice stuff Looks more a maroon colour than a deep red but hard to tell really
Thanks again mate
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