a 50% mix usually covers well.make sure the gun has an adjustable tip so you can control the atomization. I think the minimum mix for house paint is a quart. Which should be plenty to do your entire tank

so I would probably mix about a pint of diluted paint.you should get four perhaps six cups The cup on this will do about one maybe two complete passes on your tank. I read somewhere that thining large batches doesnt work so well or something?ĭoes anyone know the colour code for Tamiya Soviet green? They seem to sell many greensĪt the scale you are modelling your Kv.I would say get yourself a touch up gun Lposter wrote:Well heres a question.when you are thinning your paints to go in the airbrush.do you thin down a batch and then just keep filling your brush or do you have to make the mix fresh each time you fill? Get a clean old bottle, put x amount of pain and y amount of thinner, shake well, then put into the air brush and top up as needed. Putting a direct copy of the original colour on a scale tank will look completely off.Īs for thinning with an airbrush, I use a pipette to measure it out. Also remember the scale of the tank affects how dark or light the colour is you need, the smaller the tank, the lighter the colour. AK interactive and Mig Ammo brands actually do scale variations on 4BO green if you want an acrylic. The thing about Soviet 4BO Green is it was used as the primer as well as the main colour, it was lighter when off the production line but actually goes darker in sunlight so there is a variation you can play with. Some people use a mix of Tamiya Field Grey and Olive Drab, others go straight for Olive drab, Light green or a mix (these are the names of the actual colours in the range). Tamiya doesn't really have a direct colour for Soviet 4BO Green.

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