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AH-1W colour help
wizard179
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Posted: Friday, November 26, 2010 - 09:19 PM UTC
Hi All

I'm looking at building the Revell 1/72 AH-1W Super Cobra and one of the options for colour schemes appears to be sand and blue-grey.Being Revell, the mian colours are mixes; 1:1 matt grey:matt sky blue, and sand 1:2 matt white:matt sand yellow.

The instructions use the same colour code for the blue-grey as in the green/black/grey scheme on the box. Can anyone help me with the proper FS codes? I assume the blue-grey is FS35237 from some research on the internet and I guess maybe 33303 for the sand (although the mix makes me think it might be lighter than this)

Thanks in advance
Damian.
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Posted: Saturday, November 27, 2010 - 09:50 PM UTC
Damian,
Mate if you havent already, have a look on cybermodeler.com. They might have what your after.
Nick.
wizard179
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Posted: Saturday, November 27, 2010 - 11:54 PM UTC
Thanks Nick,

Unfortunately I had checked there but they only had two schemes. That was where I got the reference to FS33303 but even there it is called dark sand.

Thanks for the suggestion though.
Cheers
Damian
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wizard179
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Posted: Sunday, November 28, 2010 - 12:18 AM UTC
found a photo on the net

HeavyArty
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Posted: Monday, November 29, 2010 - 08:56 AM UTC
The three colors for the tri-color scheme are as follows:

37038 Flat Black
35237 Blue Gray
34095 Field Green

I would assume the gray on the Sand/Gray helos is the same. I would use FS 33531 Sand for the sand color.
wizard179
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Posted: Monday, November 29, 2010 - 09:19 PM UTC
Excellent! Thanks Gino for the response.

Cheers
Damian
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