Thescalemodelhangar on Mad dogs and Englishmen Thescalemodelhangar on FELIX RULES! The ScaleModelHan… Thescalemodelhangar on Malta’s 1000th-Spitfire… Join 1,334 other subscribers Recent Posts Now to my eye it looks pretty good, but you be the judge when you see the finished model. That’s it! That’s exactly what I used on my model. Thinning ratio: 60% paint to 40% thinners. Tamiya acrylics XF-24 Dark Grey and XF-56 Metallic Grey mixed 50:50 However, in this particular case it was a simple formula that was easy to remember! So here it is: This is just how I roll people! No smoke and mirrors, I just forget to write it all down! I know that many modellers find my colour mixing technique annoying has I never write down which paint brand, which colours or ratios I used. When it comes to mixing paint for my models, I have all the gear and no idea! I just throw some colours together in the mixing pot that I think will work and keep playing with the colour shade by adding more of this and that to darken or lighten the shade to my my own eye’s satisfaction. So out came the reference photos and experiments with paint! I had a theory in my mind very early on that a colour mix of Tamiya XF-24 Dark Grey and XF-56 Metallic Grey would hit the sweet spot. “If you want something done right- Do it yourself!” It was too light, and the metallic flakes were like glitter sprinkles! I wasn’t happy and came to the age old conclusion…. It was interesting stuff!Īfter purchasing some Have Glass V paint from AK Interactive, I tested it on a paint mule and it just didn’t look right to my eye. I enjoyed seeing what other modellers had come up with and discussion was abound with colour theory and paint mixing ratios. Let’s face it-It’s a tricky scheme to get right and much debate has been broadcast across the inter webs of our styrene fuelled hobby. Some quite spectacular and others a bit, well meh… I had seen other modellers tackle this Dark Viper scheme with varying degrees of results. Just before Christmas of last year I had an itch I needed to scratch-I had some reference photos on my phone of one of coolest paint schemes I have seen in a long time, the USAF’s F-16 in Have Glass V paint!

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