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ROK army camo scheme?
bison126
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Posted: Saturday, April 22, 2017 - 08:53 PM UTC
Hi all
I got the current ROK army camo scheme is a straight copy of one of the US MERDC variations.
The Academy instructions call for a Forest Green, a Light Brown and a Sand shades plus Black.
Academy does not provide any Tamiya references for these colors. Could anyone give me some correspondances between the real paints and Tamiya refs?

TIA
Olivier
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Posted: Saturday, April 22, 2017 - 09:50 PM UTC
Salut Olivier

Here are the FS numbers I've found that may be OK for the ROK camo scheme :

Field drab FS 30118
Forest Green FS 34079
Sand FS 30277

And here's a conversion chart :
http://www.ipmsstockholm.org/colorcharts/stuff_eng_colorcharts_fs.htm

H.P.
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Posted: Saturday, April 22, 2017 - 09:55 PM UTC
Hello Olivier,

I have used Tamiya Field Grey to good effect for the green. I do not know the stock number. Right now, that is all that I can recall off the top of my head.

Is this for your K9?

Respectfully,

Allen

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Posted: Saturday, April 22, 2017 - 10:16 PM UTC

Quoted Text

Hello Olivier,

I have used Tamiya Field Grey to good effect for the green. I do not know the stock number. Right now, that is all that I can recall off the top of my head



If I may be of assistance, the "Filed Grey" is XF-65.

Cheers,
Jan
bison126
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Posted: Saturday, April 22, 2017 - 10:40 PM UTC
Thank you all for the quick answers.
If I'm correct field grey is a kind of green.
So what color would be good for the light brown?
@ Allen, you're right. I asked for the K9.

Olivier
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Posted: Saturday, April 22, 2017 - 11:39 PM UTC

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...
If I'm correct field grey is a kind of green.
...
Olivier



Oliver, the Field Grey is indeed greenish and the pictures below should give a fair indication of how it turns out on a model with a medium green styrene (i.e.-no primer).





Cheers,
Jan
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Posted: Saturday, April 22, 2017 - 11:42 PM UTC
I found these on the internet but I haven't tried them yet. I have the K1A2 in my stash, so it wont be much longer until I do.

Forrest Green 34079 XF-81 (or XF-65 for faded)
Field Drab 30118 XF-52:1, XF64:1, and XF-2:1
Sand 30277 XF-57:4 and XF-63:1
Black 37038 XF-69
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Posted: Sunday, April 23, 2017 - 07:20 AM UTC
Hello Rich, Jan, Henri and Olivier,

The colors and numbers you provided are the ones that I used for many years to do the winter green MERDC colors on US armor, good job Rich. I liked the Field Grey as it appeared to have a realistic faded look out of the bottle.

Jan, I always appreciate assistance, especially when I am trying to provide assistance to a fellow modeler, thank you.

I will look forward to seeing your artillery piece, Olivier. I bought a metal barrel to depict the longer version of the main gun on mine. It adds about 25mm to the overall length. I intend to start a ROKA BMP-3 in the MERDC scheme shortly.

Respectfully,

Allen
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Posted: Sunday, April 23, 2017 - 11:07 AM UTC
Again, thank you for the inputs.
I just have to prepare my mixtures now!

Olivier
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