Afternoon All,
Just picked up my first American Figure Sets from Dragon (Advance to the Rhine ones)
Ok, now on the back there's the ol' Gunze and Testors paints to use. I've looked on the site here at the site and looked at Bryan Gray's(sorry to mention that name ) conversion charts. Everything's good, but does not have what I'm looking for.
I need a conversion list for either:
Testors to Tamiya or
Gunze to Tamiya...
so far, searches on the net have not got the results I need, can anyone help?
thanks
Kelly
AFV Painting & Weathering
Answers to questions about the right paint scheme or tips for the right effect.
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KellyZak
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Posted: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 - 01:37 AM UTC
jlmurc
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Posted: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 - 02:31 AM UTC
Have a look through this site and you will find some fabulous paint conversion charts. Also if you let us all know the colours you need converting I am sure that somebody will assist you.
http://www.airmodel.sk/english/topcolor.html
http://www.ipmsstockholm.org/colorcharts/stuff_eng_colorcharts_gunze.htm
John
http://www.airmodel.sk/english/topcolor.html
http://www.ipmsstockholm.org/colorcharts/stuff_eng_colorcharts_gunze.htm
John
AJLaFleche
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Posted: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 - 02:41 AM UTC
Unfortunately for the modeler, Tamiya is matched to no standard colors and with a very limited selection of colors you're left to alchemic mixtures of 40% this, 25% that, 20% something else and 5% the last color while the paint is drying in the mixing cup in the hopes of accurately replicating a given shade.
KellyZak
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Posted: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 - 02:57 AM UTC
Thanks John, I think the IPMS one will work..the areomaster one, clicking any of the paint colours, and a weird cannot find sql thing... :-)
That's what I didn't want to hear Al, I hate mixing paints..hahahaha :-)
That's what I didn't want to hear Al, I hate mixing paints..hahahaha :-)
pod123
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Posted: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 - 05:17 AM UTC
thanks john excellant conversion chart i,ve been suffering the same conversion problems as kelly zak for my ardennes fallschirmjager
secondly i also finally learnt what the numbers in the differant boxes mean as i could never understand why they dont always match and was to ashamed to ask :-) :-) :-) :-)
secondly i also finally learnt what the numbers in the differant boxes mean as i could never understand why they dont always match and was to ashamed to ask :-) :-) :-) :-)