I've just spent some time painting my Dragon Wagon until the first bit of paint dried completly.
I used the Huimbrol 66, following some conversion table I'd find here.

It looks blue!

OK I take it back maybe it is not that blue after all...

The plastic of the sprue is very green, so I think that this is what makes the OD look blue, in contrast

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Ropi, Sounds like you tried to paint the OD right on the plastic kit color..Always best to prime first before the initial color..I use gray. :-)

it will certanly stand out in blue but i am with john on this one
i think you need a primer/basecoat first

Why will it stand out in blue?
Now that I've already applied a layer, I guess I just have to put on a second one?

yes, but I do recommend a bit of 83 ochre mixed into it.....

Humbrol OD 66 is normally too blueish grey...

hth

I have posted a bit of a rant about this subject here. It's the naming of the humbroll paints. They have to colors called "olive drab". 66 and 155. I have them both. 66 is olive grey while 155 is the classic OD.

To make things even more harder to figure out, there are errors in the paint chart as well (at least in my copy, I don't if they have fixed it already) Take a look the paint names in different languages. In german the two paints have different names. "Olivegrün" (olive green) for 66 and "olivegau" (olive grey) for 155.

(and with vallejo, OD is called "brown violet" while their "olive drab" is actually a much darker color)

So do you mean to say that the correct Olive Drab to use is the 155???

I think I will follow another members advice : paint manufacturers in the 30s 40s had poor quality assurance, so the paint must have looked very different from one issue to the other...

that is correct, there was a standard, but that standard was rarely attained, and in the end, exposure to elements and such could make 2 tanks which rolled of the assembly line right behind eachother look entirily different.

Just go with whatever gives you a nice result

Besides, when you are done with filter, wash, dust, highlight, mud, gear etc ... nobody can recognise the original color :-)

:-) :-) :-) :-)


good one