Dave Firminger Great paint job, will look really smart when finished 👌
30 January 2022, 13:19
David2703 Looks great, may I ask what paint Brand and Numbers you used? Very hard to match middle eastern camo schemes
30 January 2022, 13:40
Marius Thank you Dave and David!
I agree that is very difficult to match the Eastern colours. I never actually had a direct reference for most of the colours I used on my Arab MiG-21s, except rather recently. Here is maybe a reference that might be useful, which I found on a forum:
"From an Egyptian friend working with the MiG-21s:
Upper Surfaces:
sand - Gunze H318
grey-green - Polly Scale RLM 68
dark green - Polly Scale RLM 71
Lower Surfaces:
light blue - Gunze H67 or Revell Enamel #49''
But I have personally always used only mixes of colours until they optically matched the reference. It's of course not always a success and I don't always succeed from the first try. As reference, I used mostly the "Arab MiGs" of Tom Cooper and David Nicolle especially Volumes 5 and 6. A highly recommended read. If you are interested in a specific colour I used, I can tell you the colours I mixed. I am still using the Revell Enamels.
30 January 2022, 14:03
David2703 Very comprehensive, thanks a lot! Might get back to you on some specifics. I use coopers work also, great stuff!
Marius Managed to do some weathering and postshading. This camouflage looks better than I expected at the beginning.
17 March 2022, 07:33
Vincent very nice work on the camo. Especialy in 1/72 scale.
17 March 2022, 08:13
Marius So I finally managed to finish this one. I had to adjust the green stripes again and now I think they look closer to reality than before.
Cheers for watching!
5 June 2022, 05:34
David2703 Oh wow looks great! Did you end up using the colors you initially posted?
For Sand: I used the Revell Enamel #314 (applied first in a slightly darker tone mixed with a bit of #382 and then post-shaded again with #314).
For the green stripes: to be honest, I am unsure if my color is the most correct one. While looking closely again in the profiles from "Arab Migs" with the Nile Camouflage, even there you find 4-5 different variations of the green. The historical photographs are also showing major variations depending on lightning, camera exposure, contrast, etc. I thought at the beginning that there was only one shade of green, but know I am unsure of that. Maybe there were several different ones? You can see in my gallery that I started initially with a more greyish green and eventually corrected the tones at the end with a more true green. I improvsed too much already, but I remember I started with the Revell Enamel #360.
For the Black/Dark-green: I used mostly black with 10% of some olive green.
For the underside I did use the Revell enamel #49 which fits very well in my opinion.
5 June 2022, 08:43
Simon Nagorsnik Cool camo scheme and nice chipping effects 👏
Like the cockpit!
6 June 2022, 10:36
Cuajete Very nice scheme and fantastic job.
Congrats!
19 November 2022, 18:20
Marius Thank you Cuajete!
I learned in the mean time that the Egyptians used at least 3 very different shades of green for their famous "Nile Camouflage".
Marius
David2703
