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Model Forum / General / Models / March 2006New Paint?
I just returned from a quick vacation in Germany and while at a hobby shop in Frankfurt I purchased a few bottles of a solvent based paint I had not seen before. It's marketed by Revell and the bottles are labeled Airbrush EMAIL COLOR. I've not had the opportunity to use the paint yet but was wondering if anyone has experience or knowledge of this paint? > I just returned from a quick vacation in Germany and while at a hobby shop > in Frankfurt I purchased a few bottles of a solvent based paint I had not > seen before. It's marketed by Revell and the bottles are labeled Airbrush > EMAIL COLOR. I've not had the opportunity to use the paint yet but was > wondering if anyone has experience or knowledge of this paint? Pretty much the standard Revell stuff, pre-thinned for airbrushing. Works well enough, but take care when cleaning up afterwards: Revell paints can react very badly to anything but their own dedicated thinner, and getting the resulting mess out of an airbrush is no fun whatsoever. Shoot some Revell thinner through the brush first to get most of the paint out. Rob Greetings Friends, I have several Revell (DE) kits and continue to be stumped on the paint color call outs. I can find no source to obtain Revell Germany paints. Revell DE kindly wrote advising that they had no cross reference chart. Thus, getting from Revell DE color to FS or Humbrol equivalent is not at all straightforward. This is the first time I have heard of EMAIL COLOR and I am hoping it will be easier for those of us outside of Europe to deal with. I would very much appreciate any information you could share regarding EMAIL COLOR paints and thinners and where modelers in the USA can obtain them or at least determine how to best sort the lot out. Regards, Bruce IPMS 44200 >> I just returned from a quick vacation in Germany and while at a hobby >> shop [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Rob > Greetings Friends, > I have several Revell (DE) kits and continue to be stumped on the paint [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] >> >> Rob A cross reference to Humbrol is here http://www.ipmsstockholm.org/colorcharts/stuff_eng_colorcharts_revell.htm and here http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/portland/971/reference/humbrol.htm There's another one with a bunch of cross references, it's blue and yellow but I can't remember the site, I lost the URL in a crash. Here's a list that I have buried in my research folder. Revell -> Humbrol ---------------- No. Colour Finish Humbrol No. 1 clear gloss 35 2 clear matt 49 4 white gloss 22 5 white matt 34 7 black gloss 21 8 black matt 33 9 anthracite matt 32 12 yellow gloss 69/188/154/169 15 yellow matt 154 16 sandy yellow matt 93 25 luminous orange matt 192 30 orange gloss 18 31 fiery red gloss 19 32 dark red gloss 20 35 flesh matt 61 38 ruby red matt 107 45 light olive matt 102 46 NATO olive matt 108/170/173 47 mouse grey matt 106 48 green matt 149 50 light blue gloss 47 51 ocean blue gloss 48 52 blue gloss 14 53 dark blue gloss 190 54 night blue gloss 15 55 light blue matt 65 56 blue matt 25 57 grey matt 87 60 yellowish green gloss 38 61 emerald green gloss 2 62 mossy green gloss 3 65 bronze green matt 75 66 olive green matt 66/75 67 greenish grey matt 91 69 grainite grey matt 77 70 light grey gloss 40 71 iron grey gloss 5 75 light grey matt 64 77 basalt grey matt 79 78 graphite grey matt 67 79 greyish blue matt 27 80 brown silk 9 81 dark brown silk 10 83 rust matt 113 84 leather brown matt 180 85 brown matt 62 86 olive brown matt 83 87 earth brown matt 29 88 ochre brown matt 63 89 beige matt 72 90 silver metallic 11 91 steel metallic 191 92 brass metallic 54 93 copper metallic 12 94 gold metallic 16 95 bronze metallic 171 97 green metallic 50 98 blue metallic 52 99 aluminium metallic 53 301 white silk 130 302 black silk 85 310 yellow silk 194/204 314 beige silk 71 330 fiery red silk 132 331 purple red silk 73 332 luminous red silk 205/209 350 dark blue silk 104/198 353 purple violet silk 107 360 green silk 78/80/180 361 olive green silk 105 362 greyish green silk 168 363 dark green silk 195/172 364 leaf green silk 131/101 371 light grey silk 129/196/183/166/28/147 374 grey silk 126/127/128/167 378 dark grey silk 124 380 greenish brown silk 26 381 brown silk 62 383 chestnut brown silk 160/177 >> I just returned from a quick vacation in Germany and while at a hobby shop >> in Frankfurt I purchased a few bottles of a solvent based paint I had not [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > the resulting mess out of an airbrush is no fun whatsoever. Shoot some > Revell thinner through the brush first to get most of the paint out. Rob, I've had no trouble using white spirit (mineral spirits, I think you call it in the US) to clean my airbrush after using Revell enamels. I will say though that I have had real problems using it to thin the paint - I produced an olive drab that dried to tacky and stayed that way for a week! I would recommend using Revell's thinner (Color Mix, it's called) for all thinning, but white spirit for clean-up. I always finish my clean-up with Badger airbrush cleaner (Xylene in a spraycan) or Spray-away (Trichloroethane with 1% fine oil). The Revell enamels are described as synthetic enamels, if you dig hard enough. I think this means that the binder is a synthetic resin, rather than a natural one. Certainly the chemistry is significantly different. |
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