Master box Mk 1 male tank colours

[OlegTheMeerkat]

I'm simply stuck and can't do anything to my tank until I get the correct color. I only use humbrol paint. I doubt there's a color that I need without mixing colors so please help me anyone.

Edited January 30, 2017 by OlegTheMeerkat

[Black Knight]

A suggestion from Mike Starmer for WW1 Service Brown is; Humbrol 29 & 98 mix 4:1 or thereabouts.

[OlegTheMeerkat]

Oh really, I tried that reading it from somewhere else but it looks too brown for what I thought it would look like. Thought it was more of a sand color?

[Chris B]

Whilst there would probably have been a 'correct' colour in 1916 -18 what that exact colour was is not now known with any certainty.  It is generally accepted by experts such as David Fletcher that once the multi colour Solomon camo was discontinued  it became an overall  brown or brownish colour. But there is no known record of an  official specification laying down the precise shade of brown. I'm afraid that you're looking for the holy grail of WW! tank modelling.

 

I use Tamiya not Humbrol so can't help with a suggested mix but having spent many hours on the web and in books when looking for this elusive colour to complete my Takom Mark IVs, what I use for for WW1 'tank Brown' is  a 50;50 mix of XF55 and XF52.

 

Chris

 

 

[badger]

7 hours ago, Chris B said:

what I use for for WW1 'tank Brown' is  a 50;50 mix of XF55 and XF52.

 

Chris

 

 

Cool - will give that a try as have a few WW1 tanks needing paint.

 

Regards

 

Ben