Hasegawa 1/32 P-12E, Part Something or Other: The Search for Olive Drab
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- čas přidán 1. 06. 2024
- Onward and upward with the Hasegawa 1/32 scale Boeing P-12E kit. The lower wings are on and the Olive Drab painting can commence, as soon as I find that elusive shade of Drab.
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This P-12 is gonna be a beauty when she's done.
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The correct Olive is Olive 22. Currently available from AK. RC023 For 1/32 scale, maybe a 5-10% tint with white will give you a great scale effect. The Yellow is Yellow 4. The best match is "Grabber Yellow", a Ford car color from the 1970's. Again, add 5-10% white tint to it. Model Master use to have it, or try Model Car World out of North Carolina. They have a great line of Military colors as well.
The Monogram Books, short of the original Munsell Ceramic chips, is the best you will find anywhere.
ANA colors were developed after WWII started. US Pre-war aircraft would not have carried them
Many thanks for the info. Olive Drab 22 is what the Monogram book I've been using states and that's the paint chip I used as a reference. Good to know it is available from AK, though my chances of getting anything from that range in this neck of the woods are slim to none! I'm happy with the mix I came up with. Similarly, it is next to impossible to obtain any enamel paints by mail order these days. Model Car World won't ship paints outside of the US to the best of my knowledge. As I mentioned in the video though, Model Master Chrome Yellow is pretty much a spot-on match for the Orange/Yellow chip in the Monogram book. Yellow 4 was renamed Orange/Yellow when the ANA paint standards came into effect (the two colours are pretty much identical).
As for "scale effect", I am not a proponent of that methodology! In fact, I will be doing a video at some point on that very subject and why I think it's a flawed concept. I wrote an article on Scale Colour which is on my Warped Plastic website.
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Like the t-shirt and the movie.....
Oh....and the video! (I knew that I forgot something!)
Thank you, much appreciated! It is a great film for sure.
Hello there mate 👍 greetings from the UK great video monkey and all happy modelling everyone 😀🍺
Thank you!
So many colors of olive drab depending on when and what was painted. Liked the video by the way ❤❤❤
Absolutely, there really is no "definitive" Olive Drab, it could vary greatly. Many thanks for the comments and glad you liked the video!
Oh and I have a correction on a previous comment I made on your last video I incorrectly stated that on pre-World war 2 by planes they would add aluminum oxide to the paint to protect the fabric turns out after some research, I was wrong! it was not aluminum oxide but rather finally ground aluminum (by the way various countries and manufacturers used different compositions The French used 42% aluminum powder by weight to ratio to the dope so there was quite a bit of aluminum in that dope) into a powder and it did give a reflective quality to the paint later on I'll post the link and the article on the website that I found that goes into great detail about the process and why it was done My research also shows that it was a lot like metal flake paint in fact if you took a sample of this dope paint and put it under a microscope you could actually see the individual aluminum flakes in the different layers very interesting article another interesting side effect of having this aluminum flakes applied to the dope is that depending on the time of day and the angle of light when they photograph the plain it could change the overall color or hue of the paint which would explain why a lot of times aircraft from this time period, There's so many conflicting opinions about what color things were because the photograph was partially reflecting back these light from the aluminum.
The old olive drab poser. Been there. I was trying to match it for a Ford Mutt. I got a book on them by Squadron Signal and they had a table listing the FS colours so it was just a case of matching the code to the paint. On planes I always used to use 155. Even if you did get the wrong shade, you could call it weathering! Nice to see your kit really taking shape.
Yep, it can be a puzzler! I console myself with the fact that there were probably countless variations on the real items anyway so if I get it a bit wrong who's to say?! Many thanks for the comments.
@@warpedplastic Yeah, you build them for you, not for the rivet counters.
Your thumbnail got you the like, because it actually made me laugh out loud! Now I will watch your video and if I don't like it, you can keep the like😂😂😂😂
Well, I hope you do like it, but I'll happily take the like regardless! 😀
Haha, your Canadian Tax Service can't be as bad as the US IRS. Enjoy the battle !
I think the taxman is universally a pain in the ass no matter where you live! HMRC in the UK is just as bad.
Please tell us again the title of the book you are using as your painting referance. Thanks
It's "The Official Monogram US Army Air Service & Air Corps Aircraft Color Guide, Vol 1. 1908-1941". A very long title, but a great book if you can find a copy!
Olive drive is a sticky subject I'll give you a perfect example The Douglass world cruisers are technically considered to be painted Olive drab but when you look at one in real life it becomes very obvious that they are a dark chocolate color so olive drab meant different things at different times and with different nations
Similar to British PC10, the colour can vary greatly. Museum examples aren't always the best for determining colours as they change and can darken with time. Many thanks for the comments.