[cliff]

Originally Posted by Mike Cecil

Cliff,

I had forgotten all that! How many years ago was that? I don't remember actually coming up with a Humbrol-based formula, but I certainly remember having done a lot of work on paint colour matching back in the early-mid 90s when I was given a copy of the Standards Assoc booklet (very much pre-AWM days, by the way). Mike Starmer (UK) and I had quite a deal of communication about it at the time.

Actually, we should probably thank my long-suffering artist wife, Krystii Melaine for the matching: I'm hopeless at it.

I'll qualify all this by saying that, despite the reference to Khaki Green this, or Light Earth that, the actual shades of these varied, due to manufacturer/batch differences, 'treatment' (how much thinner or matting agent is used, how well it was mixed pre-application, etc) and use, including sun/weather, dust, mud exposure, etc. Hence, there is never anything definitive about the shades of the colours once applied.

But in the absence of anything else ..... it makes a fine starting point.

Mike C

Mike dare I say it you must be getting old . Yes these paint formula came from you a long time ago. I will in the near future try and match the different colours with acrylic based paint for my models but the initial work definately came from you.