Early RAF Hercules colour question.

[cardiff guy]

Hi All

 

A question to the wise ?

Could anyone point me in the right direction, I am looking for a colour call for the lighter shade of beige on the early beige/brown Hercules.

I have Xtra colour RAF light stone and middle stone would either of these be right.

 

Thanks in advance Glenn.

[Graham Boak]

Light Stone BS381C:361 is the correct colour.  As mentioned in Colin Ovens recent book Airlift Force: RAF Transport Command 1948-1967.   Which I would strongly recommend.

 

What the relationship is between any particular tin of paint and the colour may be another matter.

Edited April 3, 2018 by Graham Boak

[David Womby]

Light stone.

 

David

 

PS - I see Graham just beat me to it :-)

[Murdock]

Hi all.

 

I'm trying to build this bird, and I have got only old Airfix references about colors....

 

I usually Paint with acrilic Vallejo Air... Anybody knows about traslation Airfix color references to Vallejo Air?

 

I will need:

Dark earth M5

Light Stone M14 (maybe Andrea color 50, but not for airbrush....:-()

Interior color: ??? (instruction sheet says about silver G8, but all photos I have seen, interiors are a blue-green shadow)

 

Could you help me?

 

Thanks in advance

[cardiff guy]

thanks all I will be seeing what I can find at Cosford on Sunday.

 

Regards Glenn.

[David Womby]

On 4/4/2018 at 11:52, Murdock said:

Hi all.

 

I'm trying to build this bird, and I have got only old Airfix references about colors....

 

I usually Paint with acrilic Vallejo Air... Anybody knows about traslation Airfix color references to Vallejo Air?

 

I will need:

Dark earth M5

Light Stone M14 (maybe Andrea color 50, but not for airbrush....:-()

Interior color: ??? (instruction sheet says about silver G8, but all photos I have seen, interiors are a blue-green shadow)

 

Could you help me?

 

Thanks in advance

I haven't used them but it looks like Dark Earth will probably be Vallejo Air 71.323 BS Dark Earth and UK Light Stone is 71.143.  

 

As to the interior, perhaps you should look at what I was told last year here: http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235018973-wheel-well-cockpit-etc-colours-for-c-130k-initial-service-scheme/&do=findComment&comment=2676119

 

David

[Murdock]

Hi David

 

Thanks for your answer. It was very useful yo me, and your last year post has been very interesting too.

 

Best regards and I hope could to help someone in a future.... thanks a lot...

[cardiff guy]

had a really good day at the Cosford show today.

 

Spoke to a nice Gent who had built a cracking little example of a 1/144 Beverly, he said he used xtra acrylic Gulf armour XA1813. as well as something i had not thought about but night Black underneath XA 1012. Looked good to me.

 

Thanks all.

 

 

 

 

[keefr22]

I finally got round to painting my 144 Beverly recently & without checking used Middlestone - it looked dreadful! So finally checked & found it to be Light Stone, & I resprayed it using the Xtracolor paint you mentioned in your opening post - it looks good to me.

 

Keith

[mitchem]

30 minutes ago, keefr22 said:

I finally got round to painting my 144 Beverly recently & without checking used Middlestone - it looked dreadful! So finally checked & found it to be Light Stone, & I resprayed it using the Xtracolor paint you mentioned in your opening post - it looks good to me.

 

Keith

...let me know when it will appear at a club meeting and I might break my exile 

 

mike (who's now expecting a response back saying "NEVER")

[fatalbert]

Interior colours are mainly matt sky ,back in the days of the brown scheme the undercarriage areas would have been painted aluminum.

Edited April 12, 2018 by fatalbert