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AFV Painting & Weathering
Answers to questions about the right paint scheme or tips for the right effect.
Tamiya XF-61 Dark green
UpperCanadian
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Posted: Saturday, August 15, 2020 - 09:08 AM UTC
What is the best way to lighten this colour?

I'm using it for camo. But out of the bottle it looks way too dark for how the vehicle appears (on the box art).

Dan.
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Posted: Saturday, August 15, 2020 - 09:18 AM UTC
XF-3 yellow
XF-4 yellow green
(both these will keep it pretty green but make it lighter)
XF-? buff
XF-? deck tan
(these will grey it out a bit)

UpperCanadian
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Posted: Saturday, August 15, 2020 - 09:35 AM UTC

Quoted Text

XF-3 yellow
XF-4 yellow green
(both these will keep it pretty green but make it lighter)
XF-? buff
XF-? deck tan
(these will grey it out a bit)




I have dark yellow, but no yellow. Also have flat white.
phil2015
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Posted: Saturday, August 15, 2020 - 09:54 AM UTC
Flat white will push it towards grey, but the dark yellow should work.
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Posted: Saturday, August 15, 2020 - 09:57 AM UTC

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Flat white will push it towards grey, but the dark yellow should work.



Thanks Phil.
iwatajim
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Posted: Saturday, August 15, 2020 - 10:02 AM UTC
I would use yellow green. I did exactly that on my Churchill build and it worked out fine. In fact I have used yellow green to highlight olive drab, olive green, nato green, etc. You can see the result here;

https://armorama.kitmaker.net/forums/271890

Remember, the weathering completely changes the finished colour, so you can go a lot lighter than you think initially, usually. Good luck!

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Posted: Saturday, August 15, 2020 - 10:42 AM UTC
XF-15 Flesh works well with the green shades too.

Olivier
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