M48A2 Patton Tank - Revell/Monogram by Loracs

[Loracs]

Greetings, after nearly 2 years building the Revenge, I needed a change of pace: something different, something fast building, something to paint.  Here it is, a good old model tank.  This is a first for me ... and an excuse to get something I have had my eye set upon for quite a while now (well!  a couple of months), and a quality airbrush.

 

Decided to start a new build for a simple reason.  Not really for the build, which can be done in a day or two, but mostly for trying a few approaches to painting and weathering.  You will be having a front seat to my mistakes!!!

 

Let me start with the culprits: the kit and the airbrush.

 

Edited 6 hours ago by Loracs

[Loracs]

The second essential is the paints.  I already have a fair amount of Liquitex ink and paint.  I like them because of their pigment load and their vibrancy.  The ink can be used as-is for airbrushing and the paint can be thinned down with airbrush media.  The nice part is that Liquitex has a number of media available to change consistency, gloss and even transparency.  This is quite useful.

 

Despite the fair selection of colors... you still want to mix them to the final choice.  I found on another forum someone that works on reproducing accurate colors for WW2, either armors or planes.  He produced "recipes" for some paint brands.  I tried a few and they were quite good.  Here the links, so the author gets full recognition.

 

RLM color mixes for Tamiya Acrylics, Tamiya Lacquers, Golden Fluid Acrylics and Liquitex Basic Fluid paints - Paint - Britmodeller.com

 

British Aviation Colours of World War Two book insert - Spectrophtometer readouts and sample recipes using Tamiya, Liquitex and Golden Fluid Acrylics - Paint - Britmodeller.com

 

 

Edited 5 hours ago by Loracs

[kgstakes]

Nice kit!  And thank you regarding paint recipes.

 

i use masters touch artist paints and have had good results when painting cars and trucks 1900-1930’s.  Just love those style of automoblies. 
 

sometimes I’ll use hobby paints but for the money and ease of use with both brush and airbrush I find the artist colors do quite well for me anyway.

 

 Again thanks for info on the “recipes”.  I’ll look them up and see what I can do too.

[Dave_E]

I’m in. 🥤🍿😀

[Loracs]

@kgstakes, indeed you should be able to get very similar results with Master Touch Artist paint.  As a reference, you could always look up the pigment composition between the brands... that should help establish equivalence.

[realworkingsailor]

15 minutes ago, kgstakes said:

Nice kit!  And thank you regarding paint recipes.

 

i use masters touch artist paints and have had good results when painting cars and trucks 1900-1930’s.  Just love those style of automoblies. 
 

sometimes I’ll use hobby paints but for the money and ease of use with both brush and airbrush I find the artist colors do quite well for me anyway.

 

 Again thanks for info on the “recipes”.  I’ll look them up and see what I can do too.

If I’m not mistaken the “Casey” who posted the colour mixes on Britmodeller worked with Alex Mann (Mann’s Model Moments on YouTube), to create a whole plethora of (relatively) simple mixes using ICMs Acrylic paints for WW2 subjects.  The videos Alex made are worth checking out as he covers everything in detail: https://m.youtube.com/@MannsModelMoments

 

 

Andy

[Loracs]

@Dave_E, thanks...  I'm sorting thru a stack of pictures.  I should be able to post more by tomorrow.  Like I said, I'm likely to be doing quite some mistakes... but HEY!  this is the purpose of a log.  

[Loracs]

@realworkingsailor,  A thousand thanks... will certainly look it up.