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| Subject: | Mr. Zaloga's Olive Drab |  |
| Date: | Jul 8, 2004 |
| From: | Mark Holoboski | |
In Mr. Zaloga's 2002 Military Modelling article, as well as his recent
Osprey book on modelling the Stuart, he suggests Tamiya OD XF-62 as the closest match to wartime army OD.* OK, he has the chip, I don't. I would love to accept that. But...in the back of the Osprey book, there are some reprints of the paint chips.
The OD chip (which is brown based) is nothing like Tamiya OD (which is very green based). They are both dark, that's true. But that's the only similarity I see. In addition, in his magazine artile, he describes OD as a very muddy earth brown, pig slop kind of thing.
So I ask, are the tanks supposed to give an overall green appearance, or brown? Is Tamiya OD really the right way to go? Just eyeballing it, the books chip seems closer to Vallejo US OD, if it were modified (haven't experimented yet).
* see also http://www.mil-mod.nl/featod.html |
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