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Offline GlennCauley

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Kriegsmarine Paints from LifeColor
« on: 11 Dec , 2014, 09:22 »
With the demise of WEM ColourCoats paints  <sigh>  I had thought that we would not be able to get German Kriegsmarine WWII paints any more.

Well... there is some GOOD NEWS.

LifeColor has 2 paint sets for German Kriegsmarine WWII, for surface ships and also U-boats:

Set 1 (surface vessels) has the following 6 colours (22mL bottles):
  • UA 601 Hellgrau/Silbergrau DKM 50
  • UA 602 Dunkelgrau Hull DKM 51
  • UA 603 Hellgrau DKM 50 var
  • UA 604 Mittelgrau DKM 51 var
  • UA 605 Dunkelgrau
  • UA 606 Schiffsbodenfarbe Rot 5

Set 2 (U-boats) has the following 6 colours (22mL bottles):
  • UA 607 Schiffsbodenfarbe III Grau DKM 23
  • UA 608 Schlickgrau 58
  • UA 609 Blaugrau 58-1
  • UA 610 Dunkelgrau 52
  • UA 611 Dunkelgrau 53
  • UA 612 Teerfirnis TF 99 Faded
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Re: Kriegsmarine Paints from LifeColor
« Reply #1 on: 11 Dec , 2014, 13:25 »

Hi Glenn,


I purchased the Uboat Lifecolor Set a few years ago. IMO you have to dilute these colors because of the scale effect otherwise the colors are to dark because they match the original 1:1 scale colors. AFAIK for a 1:72 U boat the rule of thumb is 75% color and 15% thinner (and certainly 100% of a good beer for the airbrush operator).


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Re: Kriegsmarine Paints from LifeColor
« Reply #2 on: 11 Dec , 2014, 13:26 »
Good to know!   :D

Cheers <clink>
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Re: Kriegsmarine Paints from LifeColor
« Reply #3 on: 11 Dec , 2014, 17:15 »
i have also used the Lifecolor U-Boat colors and they are nice.  I was not aware of the WEM paints being discontinued, any ideas why?  I still have a small stockpile of them, I hope they haven't dried up!
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Re: Kriegsmarine Paints from LifeColor
« Reply #4 on: 12 Dec , 2014, 07:56 »
WEM closed on Nov-28
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Re: Kriegsmarine Paints from LifeColor
« Reply #5 on: 12 Dec , 2014, 07:59 »
I purchased the Uboat Lifecolor Set a few years ago. IMO you have to dilute these colors because of the scale effect otherwise the colors are to dark because they match the original 1:1 scale colors. AFAIK for a 1:72 U boat the rule of thumb is 75% color and 15% thinner (and certainly 100% of a good beer for the airbrush operator).

I'm confused... how will adding more thinner lighten the colours?    Wouldn't you need to add white paint instead, to lighten up the colours?
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Re: Kriegsmarine Paints from LifeColor
« Reply #6 on: 12 Dec , 2014, 12:48 »
Hi Glenn,

please follow this link, IMO a very good article about the scale effect. And according to this article you have to add white, sorry for my unprecise words in the post before.

http://www.cybermodeler.com/color/scale_effect.shtml

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Re: Kriegsmarine Paints from LifeColor
« Reply #7 on: 14 Dec , 2014, 23:24 »
That's a good article, thanks for that. I used to have a bit of freeware for the PC that calculated for you.
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Re: Kriegsmarine Paints from LifeColor
« Reply #8 on: 01 Jan , 2015, 06:54 »
 :)Good stuff!
Something to think about because of my work in 1/72scale.
Thanks! Dan