Kriegsmarine Paints from LifeColor

[GlennCauley]

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:

• LC-CS09 Kriegsmarine :: German Navy WWII Set 1 (Surface Vessels)
• LC-CS12 German U-bootwaffe  : German Navy WWII Set 2

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

[falo]

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).


Regards
Falo

[GlennCauley]

Good to know!   

Cheers <clink>

[VonStigler]

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!
Regards,
Brian

[GlennCauley]

WEM closed on Nov-28

[GlennCauley]

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?

[falo]

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

Regards
Falo

[Rokket]

That's a good article, thanks for that. I used to have a bit of freeware for the PC that calculated for you.

[dbauer]

 :)Good stuff!
Something to think about because of my work in 1/72scale.
Thanks! Dan