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Ralph Haus
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The Vallejo tube, as I understand it is the same as is in the bottle. Tends to shrink with deep applications. Great for touchups.
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The Vallejo tube, as I understand it is the same as is in the bottle. Tends to shrink with deep applications. Great for touchups.Hate shrinkage from solvent putty that's any thicker than a skim coat. So I got pretty used to the green stuff epoxy that shapes really well with a bit of water. For the Vallejo putty, is that the tube or the thick stuff from the bottle?
That gap did look bigger though: putty may just work. Been more a fan of Gunze white, since Squadron White is no more
Vallejo RLM 71. I did a white balance correction on images, see below, but there is still a heavy brown weight to the color. Darn computers!! But to be fair these were cell phone images.Looking good. But is the brown colour the primer?
Eyesite getting better not worseI see. Just asked because the RLM71 was a quite dark grey green paint. Are you sure you used the correct number of the Vallejo paint? IMHO it looks like you used the RLM81 or something like that.
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the source: the net.
Eyesite getting better not worseUnless someone mislabeled the bottle or filled a correctly labeled one with the wrong color, I'm sure I have it correct. After the RLM 70 goes on. to give some contrast, it may look better. It may not look right solo.
A technical challenge to say the least. Never one to disappoint, here is another stab at color correction. You should approve ofOK. No problem. Just the colour looks quite strange.
A technical challenge to say the least. Never one to disappoint, here is another stab at color correction. You should approve of
this one? I'll be more mindful in the future, always a mistake to rely on the computer to do what is correct.
You really have touched on a good point though. Many times I have reviewed postings of builds and commented to myself "what the heck color is that?". Maybe an incorrect choice by the builder OR that darn computer again? I myself will try and post with 'acceptable' color renditions in the future.
Thanks. You are always good for a nudge in the right direction.
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Overwhelming. Certainly for the purist, say looking for museum level builds, this is something that would need to be considered. But for me, if I'm close within the color spectrum's, then I'm good. Just need to be sure that I publish the correct colors; as painted and as seen on the screen.That's fine. The Vallejo colours aren't too accurate in their tinge often. They seem to be darker than these should be. IMHO it is because of the suggested techinique the paints are going to be applied with. The web is full of many different scans of the colour released by the different manufactures. Here is the scanned chip of the MIG paint that is quite close to the RLM71 tone.
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However the RLM71 was identified as a colour of a couple of tones. The FS 34083, 34079, 34102. As you may notice the Vallejo samples found in the net look almost the same.
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The LW colours from the L.Dv. 521/1 instruction released in 1938.
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the source: RLM 83: il colore misterioso della Luftwaffe - Verde9.com
and here the addtion to the L.Dv. 521/1 from 1941
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the source: RLM: i colori della Luftwaffe - lista completa - Verde9.com
and the next one ..
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the source: the net.