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Vallejo olive drab color modulation
Bruc84
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Slovenia
Joined: January 13, 2017
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Posted: Sunday, February 19, 2017 - 11:46 PM UTC
Hallo to evrybody!

I have a 1/35 M3 scout car to paint! I want to try the color modulation tecnic for the first time!

For the base color i will use Vallejo olive drab 70.889 color. Can you please sugest me wit wath vallejo colours an what ratio, i mast mix the base colour to get:

-dark shade
-highligt shade
-superhighligt shade

The car will be basecoted in black, i will aply all the colors with airbrush, just the superhighligt shade will be applied with brush over the details...

I am new to this tecnic, so please keep it simple

Thanks
Belt_Fed
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New Jersey, United States
Joined: February 02, 2008
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Posted: Monday, February 20, 2017 - 01:07 AM UTC
Vallejo sells their own model air mudulation set. The order of colors from darkest to lightest are:

Yellow Olive,
US Dark Green,
Olive Drab,
US Grey Green,
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