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Aircraft Modeling / Re: RLM v hobby paint comparison charts
« on: May 25, 2011, 11:17:35 AM »
Jicehem,
Thank you for your information and comments  :).
Is this "extra issue of AĆ©ro-Journal" available to buy yet?

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: RLM v hobby paint comparison charts
« on: May 25, 2011, 07:31:24 AM »
No.1 What book was that? I do seem to remember that you worked on a book but can't remember which one!
Your digital colours look very good. Did the book include these as a chart?
Unfortunetly the scanned in paints charts on the computer screen don't appear as bright or clear as they do on the page in front of me. A 300Dpi on umcompressed TIF format however is 38Mb a chart!!

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Aircraft Modeling / RLM v hobby paint comparison charts
« on: May 25, 2011, 12:22:08 AM »
I have compiled a colour chart of RLM paint chips taken from Merrick's book (Luftwaffe Camouflage and Markings 1933-1945 Vol.2 2005) along with a couple from the Kookaburra book by J. Smith (The Modeller's Luftwaffe Painting Guide 1979) and their claimed hobby paint equivalents from Testor's Model Master enamels and acryl range, Humbrol Enamels, Tamiya acrylics, WEM enamels, Life color arcylics, Vallejo Model Air and Model Color acrylics, Polly Scale acrylic and JPS acrylic paints.

The small notations under some paint matches(2:34, 5:116) is firstly the ratio and secondly the paint number (for Tamiya and Humbrol mixes).

'HCS' refers to a mix as per the old Humbrol Colour Systems book.

JPS paint was included as Mr. Popp, who makes this paint in Germany, worked in conjunction with Mr. J. Kiroff, who was the paint technology advisor in Merrick's book, to make the JPS range of paints.

You will note a couple of alternate colour chips (2005 Merrick versus 1979 Smith) for RLM79 and 83 and that different manufacturers have made their matches to one colour but not the other (IE Model Master to the 1979 Smith version for RLM79 and 83 and JPS to the 2005 Merrick darker RLM83 colour).

I am missing the JPS RLM79 paint (can anyone point me to a bottle?).

Some of the information may be out of date as the sources I have used may not be current.
Please note that the Humbrol site makes NO claim that the names on their tins represent the same colour as the names of the camouflage used on the planes we are modelling (ie RLM colours)!!

You can download them from my site in the links section: http://www.petersplanes.com/links.htm

I have also produced a Excel sheet for Tamiya, Humbrol and other paint equivalents for (most) RLM, French, Italian, RAF/FAA and USA colours. This is available from my website for downloading in the links section http://www.petersplanes.com/RLM%20colour%20chart.xls (http://www.petersplanes.com/links.htm)

It now has 16 references of suggestions for various mixes to achieve (supposedly) a match to the actual WW2 colours.

Remember these are other peoples suggestions as to what they thought was a best match and I have only compiled them into this one spot.

I have added some notes about some of the paint suggestions and mixes in the RLM section as to what I have tried against the Merrick colour chips (some are way off!).

My aim was to include as many paint mixes from varied sources in ONE spot as I could so that a quick and easy comparison can be done. And allow you to see the variety that other people think is a good match and decide for yourself. Also RGB and CMYK numbers are given to allow you to do correct colours on computer generated images or even to take it to the local paint shop and get them to mix up a batch in acrylic or enamel paints!

For example looking at RLM 83 there are at least 8 'recipes' most of them different from each other.


I hope you find these useful and that it will allow you to decide what paint is the better match for your Luftwaffe paint schemes.

http://img807.imageshack.us/img807/2777/rlmcomparisonchart1.jpg

and
http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/4121/rlmcomparisonchart2.jpg


Peter H

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Spitfire Mk.XIVe
« on: July 17, 2010, 05:25:11 AM »
Bigger pictures as requested.
These planes will be available from me to buy when the decals are ready (there are some more choices being added).
See my website for when available: www.petersplanes.com

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Aircraft Modeling / Spitfire Mk.XIVe
« on: July 16, 2010, 04:02:19 AM »
Hi all,
long time since I posted here!
Here are some pictures of two Spitfires I make in 1/144 resin.
The Silver one (2Sqn, 2nd TAF) is by a very talented modeller called Roberto Masukawa from Brazil and the camouflaged one is my effort at showing a plane of 453 Sqn (RAAF).
Hope you like them. They are part of my new 'GOLD' series of highly accurate and detailed 1/144 resin planes I am starting tomake. The master was CAD designed and CnC milled in the Ukraine and I made the molds and castings.


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Forums Works / Re: May I introduce...
« on: December 10, 2009, 11:55:23 PM »
Hi Edwin,
welcome.
We discussed the little 1/144 G-1 I make out of resin a year or so ago. I must say it is still a bit of a favourite of mine.
anyway lots of interesting stuff in here that you will enjoy.

regards
Peter
www.petersplanes.com

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Combat Warplanes / Re: Fokker G.1
« on: June 04, 2008, 03:44:16 AM »
Leo,
Hi.
I think the Fokker G-1 was debut at the Paris air show in 1936 and predates the Fw189 and P-38. I do not know if they were influenced by it's design?
Certainly the Germans captured a number of G-1s in Holland in May 1940 and flew them in their evaluation units. I am unaware of any German G-1 being used in any form of operational activities.
Unfortunetly for the Fokker G-1 (and the Dutch) the war came about 6 months too early and the 30 or so G-1 that had been built were not even armed at the start of the war although a number were (in a few days only) and did succeed in shooting down a number of German aircraft.
A G-1 escaped to Britain after the Germans had over run Holland and it managed to evade the escort me-109 that it had whilst it was being test flown by 2 Dutch pilots.
As usual the story leads to a great 'what if?'. What if there were 30 armed G-1s at the start of the war? What if Spain, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland had managed to buy them them as they had planned on doing?

Peter

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: My models
« on: May 13, 2008, 01:38:55 PM »
Thank you all for your kind words.
I will post pictures of planes and any refinements/changes as I do them.

regards
Peter

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: My models
« on: May 12, 2008, 01:47:19 PM »
Current project is a French Loire 130-M.
awaiting decals and final further painting.

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: My models
« on: May 12, 2008, 11:52:43 AM »
a newer casting of the Arado.

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: My models
« on: May 12, 2008, 11:01:46 AM »
more pictures:

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Combat Warplanes / Re: Fokker G.1
« on: May 12, 2008, 10:37:38 AM »
My little 'Reaper'!

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Combat Warplanes / Re: Fokker G.1
« on: May 12, 2008, 08:29:07 AM »
Hi all,
 I have just built a 1/144 scale version of this plane and will post some pictures later tonight.

Peter H
Australia

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: My models
« on: February 12, 2008, 12:59:00 PM »
Samuraj77,
I need to practise with the cheap airbrush I have!! AND yes only the Kingfisher has a Satin coat on it the others need a final protective matt layer. I have redone the decals a number of times to get them right and so these have had a few put on and taken off!

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: My models
« on: February 12, 2008, 11:57:14 AM »
they are 1/144.
made in resin from wooden masters by me.
I originally did the decals as inkjet ones but have since found a local source of ALPS decals (can print white).

Peter H

PS: anyone else into 1/144?

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