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Lightening OD Paint
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Posted: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 - 03:51 AM UTC
Silly question time everyone.. Im thinking of lightening some OD paint.. Is yellow the colour to use? Im almost sure Ive seen it here at some point..Thanks

Dave
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Posted: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 - 04:33 AM UTC
Hi Dave,

You can try yellow, or try adding a touch of white to the OD, or a slightly lighter shade of the OD. With so many paints available, there has to be some which will give you the needed range to preshade.

Experiment on the bottom of the tank, nobody will see it..... (you should see the bottom of my finished pieces, they tend to look like avant-garde paint ball targets!

Frank
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Posted: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 - 04:59 AM UTC
I added some khaki color to it, and wasnt dissapointed with the results
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Posted: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 - 05:27 AM UTC

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Hi Dave,
(you should see the bottom of my finished pieces, they tend to look like avant-garde paint ball targets!

Frank



:-) :-) :-)

Thanks for the advice guys.. I do have some lifecolour acrylic weathered OD.. But I dont like the way it sprays..Every so often, it spits a little blob of paint out.. Really rather frustrating..

Dave
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Posted: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 - 05:41 AM UTC
Dave,

I wish you would of said you use Lifecolour paints earlier, I'm sure I'll get beat up over this, but I would reconsider the choice of paints. This stuff has the consistency of porridge,.... not the best of paints! Do yourself a huge favour, and switch over to Tamiya, Gunze or Polly Scale, anything is better than that tobacco spit. Nobody I know (shy of you) uses the stuff...for a good reason.

Frank
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Posted: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 - 07:39 AM UTC
Well thats good to know. I was going to give Lifecolour a try.

Think I will just stick with the tried and tested stuff.

Dave,

I used Dark Yellow to lighten some OD. Seemed to work pretty good.


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Experiment on the bottom of the tank, nobody will see it..... (you should see the bottom of my finished pieces, they tend to look like avant-garde paint ball targets!



Glad I am not the only one to do this!
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Posted: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 - 09:22 AM UTC
I use flesh to lighten OD and OG. I use Revell enamels.
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Posted: Thursday, January 05, 2006 - 12:11 AM UTC

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Im thinking of lightening some OD paint.. Is yellow the colour to use? Im almost sure Ive seen it here at some point..



WW II US OD is a combination of yellow ochre and black and not a blue and yellow, like most most greens. Because of this, if you lighten mostly with yellow, your tone stays green. If you lighten mostly with white, yuor tone tends to go grey instead. Depending upon what I look am going for I use both, but generally do my main lightening with yellow ochre (panzer yellow, usually) with a bit of white to grey the tone for scale effect or to simulate a bright sunlit environment.

HTH

Paul
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Posted: Thursday, January 05, 2006 - 05:30 AM UTC

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Dave,

I wish you would of said you use Lifecolour paints earlier, I'm sure I'll get beat up over this, but I would reconsider the choice of paints. This stuff has the consistency of porridge,.... not the best of paints! Do yourself a huge favour, and switch over to Tamiya, Gunze or Polly Scale, anything is better than that tobacco spit. Nobody I know (shy of you) uses the stuff...for a good reason.

Frank



Not to worry Frank, I switched to Tamyia some time ago.. You are right about the porridge thing.. Unfortunate because they really had some decent colours..


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Posted: Sunday, January 08, 2006 - 03:35 AM UTC
I use a color from Polly Scale called 'aged white' that works very well as a lightening agent for most colors. It tends toward the warm side.
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