Hi all.
Im working on my 109 for Duel,and its the first time Ive used Xtra Acrylics RLM colours.
This is the wing,sprayed with RLM 70 and 71,,,dark green and black green.
I was expecting more of a contrast between the two colours,but they are very similar in tone.
Is this correct?,,although I doubt it.
If not,,(just for future reference, Im not going to respray it at this stage), which colour is the "wrong" shade?


Comments welcome but lets not start an "olive drab" style debate about this guys
Nige

Lampie

IMO it's the black-green. Definately needs more black in there.

IAN

That doesn't look too far of to me - Have you 'scaled' the paint? (I.E. Lightened it for the scale effect). Xtracolor and Xtracrylix are matched directly to paint chips and are therefore 1:1

Here is a link for colour samples - http://www.xs4all.nl/~rhorta/jgrlm.htm

An article on 'scaling' paint (towards the bottom) - http://www.xs4all.nl/~rhorta/jgrlm.htm

Lee

Hi Nige

it is ok. There are some photos which show that little contrast...

BUT remember the 70 colour was also used on prop blades, where it looks much darker. In general RLM 70 has some kind of "blueish" hue (read less yellow and thus less olive) ... 71 IS some kind of olive drab ....

I would leave it as it is! It looks good

As I suggested some days ago: if you really want to dig into that area ..get yourself the 2 vol. Luftwaffe camouflage and markings by Kenneth A. Merrick (try amazon.com as they seem to have a lot (enough) market power to "persuade" ian Allen to lower prices .. I got both for 50 Pound each from the publisher (plus p&p) which hit my budget seriously...

Another good book is Luftwaffe Colours by Michael Ullman (with colour chips too) .. if you can get one for a good price ... it is long OOP (I could not get it, but I have a German edition with much less photos)

HTH

cheers

Steffen

Hi guys.
Thanks for the comments and advice.
2:1 in favour of it being ok,,so Im happy to take that advice and stick with it.
Its not very often I build any Luftwaffe subjects and I was just a bit surprised how close in tone the two colours were.
Thanks for the links Lee.
The difference is a bit more noticable today in natural light so its onwards on upwards with the build and I can get down to the serious business of blasting Jean Lucs Potez from the skies over France :-)
Thanks again
Nige