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Tamiya Colours, British Camo
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Alberta, Canada
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Posted: Thursday, April 14, 2005 - 05:23 PM UTC
Can any one recomend the 3 colours for this camo. Perfer Tamiya colours
Thanks
MrRoo
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Posted: Thursday, April 14, 2005 - 06:31 PM UTC
There are no exact Tamiya colors for this cammo scheme.
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Goteborgs och Bohus, Sweden
Joined: April 12, 2005
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Posted: Thursday, April 14, 2005 - 06:39 PM UTC
I've found that the yellow corresponds quite well to Tamiya's XF-60 (Now, that was the easy part)...

The "light blue" would be a mix (about 50/50) of their Medium blue (XF-18, I think, somewhere around that, anyway) and XF-19 Sky Grey. As for the dark blue, I would probably recommend a mix of XF-24 dark grey and XF-18 (or whatever it was )
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Provincia de Lugo, Spain / Espaņa
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Posted: Thursday, April 14, 2005 - 09:03 PM UTC

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The "light blue" would be a mix (about 50/50) of their Medium blue (XF-18),



The 'light-blue' of he three-tone scheme, is sadly little more than the military equivalent of an 'urban legend'. The light-blue color has been discredited after considerable research. The correct color would come close to a light green... Perhap's others could expand on this?..Jim
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Posted: Thursday, April 14, 2005 - 09:11 PM UTC
as jim says the light blue is incorrect,

from what ive seen in colour plates etc it would be something like a lightened version of tamiyas field grey (grey green colour)

regards

joe
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Quebec, Canada
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Posted: Friday, April 15, 2005 - 05:46 AM UTC
Here's a picture of my honey that I built a few years ago ...

I researched my colors using the MAFVA site and was congratulated by Mark Bannerman for using the correct colors on my kit..(great praise if you know Mark)..
So here is a link to check out ..I know they are for humbrol paints but ...
http://www.mafva.org/index.asp

hope this helps
Rick
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Alberta, Canada
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Posted: Friday, April 15, 2005 - 01:38 PM UTC
Thanks for the replies guys, funny how these ideas of colours can get so wrong, I guess B/w photos are the main cause. Thats a great link Richard, along with a site I found regarding a famous M3 "the Bellman" it does seem to put an end to my Idea of using Blue as part of My Camo.
Great looking honey you got there specially the custom made headlight guards :-) :-) . I hope my camo turns out as well.

Bruce
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