Do you all think that the MM line of RAL colors is accurate? The local shop carries them and I like them for not having to mix and match ten different shades of paint but are the reasonably accurate?

Hello there Hellbent11

I personally love the Model master line of colors esp the enamals.

Yes they smell a bit and you should wear a painters respirator when you airbrush them..

anyways to continue my testamoinal.. I like em cause the local shops carry them.. It also seems like they have the widest range of colors with many variations and shades of many.

now heres an excert from the model master tech reference.. (I know its them tooting their own colors so you be the judge)

"WWII German Panzer Colors

....... Matched to RAL standards these colors are designated in the original german names"...


I also think they airbrush very well myself after proper thinning..

I use Model Master enamal, Testers, Tamiya Acrylics, Polyscale acrylics, floquil and Humbrol enamals. and of all the brands about 80% of my paint is Model Master.

My Model website

on my site I try to list what paints I use for each model if you want to take a look. some of the photo's aren't that good. and as you will see I'm still working on a lot of my techniques, learning as I go..

Im not sure about the accuracy, But I want to comment on there version on dark yellow for armor, Dunkelgelb 1945 I bielve they call it, seem kinda to much green in it. MY 2 cents

Delbert, Thanks for the link to your gallery. You have a lot of nice, nice work! That's another thing that I like about MM is the wide range of colors and they do airbrush well. I wonder how they come up with the exact shades they do? Maybe old WWII paint formulas?

thanks Hellbent11

I have no idea how they come up with the colors, but I know I like em.

I personally am in the hobby to build models not get furstrated over whether or not I have the exact shade.

And anyways in wartime with supplies being hit or miss, getting the paints themselves the exact correct shade was prob not a top worry.

one of the discussions that just keeps popping up on here is

"what is the correct shade of Olive Drab"... for some reason this question never dies.........

lol. later...