Good progress, my friend @gblair! Good approach in creating the correct color shades!

Thanks, Spiros (@fiveten) and John (@johnb). Sometimes it is helpful to find Tamiya paint mixes online, and sometimes you get a whole bunch of things to try out.

Hi Carl (@clipper): Mixing paints can be a real interesting process. I took a class in Color Theory several years ago as part of a very slow pursuit of watercolor painting, but it has only limited benefit. You have to know what colors are already in the paint to predict the results when you add other colors. For instance, olive drab may be made up of several different pigments that produce unpredictable results when mixed with anything other than white. The other reason I don't like to mix my own colors is that they are hard to match when I inevitably have to go back and repaint something. It might work to my advantage on an armoured car. Like you mentioned, using online formulas sometimes produces results that don't look anything like what they are supposed to. Further complicating things is when I search for "WW1 Russian Armor Color", I always get a mix for 4BO, which is a WW2 color. It may be the same color they used in WW1, but I can't find anything that says that. This has been fun so far, so that is a big plus.

Your colors for the San Francisco are perfect, Carl (@clipper). When I eventually get going again on the APD, I plan to copy your colors. :o)

Very nice progress, my friend @gblair! Great that everything fits well so far!

Thanks, Spiros (@fiveten) and John (@johnb). I lost a lot of time watching the Olympics, but I should be able to make some good progress now that they are over.

I have not delved in armor or ground vehicles much, but I must say this is pretty cool George (@gblair). I like where this is going. The colors should be relatively easy to match given the excellent color of the instructions. As a side note, I might suggest you purchase small plastic tattoo cups for test mixes. They have the advantage of not wasting a lot of material if your mixes go south and when doing small detail work, they are ideal for small thinned batches of water based (or other types) of paint. Looking forward to seeing more as this progresses.

I like those plastic trays with the depressions George (@gblair). Great for comparing mix ratios to one another.