can some1 guide me on color mixing

i wanted to get a output color like pic attached.



and also wat are the color mix for gunner zaku (lumaria)

Thanks

ok first of all u gotta inform what kind of paint u r using, what brand too.

from the picture, the purplish color i suspect is a pearl finish effect. meaning when the surface is not reflecting light, it looks blue, but when u tilt it to certain angle and it reflect light, u can see a tone of red.

Method using gunze lacquer color, paint the base with the blue u want. mix your top coat yourself (can only do that if u got air brush) use clear as bonding medium, mix with pearl powder that reflects red.

or u can buy gunze's color (mr color- lacquer) that says "pearl, white red" meaning the pearl pigment is white (no color) and it will reflects red. mix with clear, and spray as u r doing top coat.


Other than that, it's very rediculous to ask people show u how to mix color aint it? Try asking your art teacher to mix color for you for your water color work, kena scolding kau kau man!

All i can say is, mix the paint and look at it, until u like it, brush paint a little on a piece of pla plate with the right base color. If not what u want, mix again. Look and mix!



This post has been edited by rayloke: Jun 18 2008, 02:00 PM

well.... sory for my non proper question... im kinda new on this coloring

curently im using mr.hobby paint (used with airbrush) since i dont have much colors to mix and test. thats why i asked here.
i wana try dark blue + flourecent pink if can get those color...

rayloke: Thanks for the information bro... curently me not lookin into doing pearl stuff.... but maybe ur tips will be useful in future

what about the 'tamiya flat base + pla-slate liquid' in tutorial to start gunpla-ing? really that good?

i think should be fine, is better u mix blue( i wll recommend character blue or royal blue, those blue are slight reddish) into flourecent pink (also flurecent red, orange).

My experience to get a bright color, the flourecent paint gotta be on the stronger side, cause i ound that fluorecent color will get dull easily.

also remember to have a white base before u put on the main color.

happy modelling fren!

This post has been edited by rayloke: Jun 19 2008, 03:51 AM

okie... abouut white base... now my model i already spray with grey primer.

so i needa coat of primer + another coat of white base follow up the main color i wanted rite??

for bright colors (white, red, yellow, or light blue), u need to have it use whitebase after priming.
overwise the color coat u apply will turn dark, in other word, it won't show up the color as it shud.
for dark color or metallic color, white base is not necessary.

SO is this the whitebase which u guys talking about

Yeah this's the one. also come in spray can.

According to the tamiya website, paint from their spray cans aren't affected by enamel and acrylics. Can anyone confirm this? I'm planning to line using Mr.hobby enamel paint and add a few details using Mr.metal. Btw, the source http://www.tamiya.com/english/products/list/spray.htm

Tamiya did state "The paint is synthetic LACQUER", so it's not affected by enamel nor acrylics. As for Mr. Metal which is also lacquer, should be no problem too. Hope that's help.

Since this is a mod, better i put it here. Basically finished la this one. If not lazy, later cover seam lines and put decals

Anybody mod their figmas/revoltechs?

This post has been edited by Exiled_Gundam: Jun 20 2008, 09:33 AM

lol mod also can be put under working progress gallery de la nt here... here is for discussion... neeway this is RX-78-2-HARUHI ver. i presume?? lolz haha...

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Added on June 20, 2008, 8:04 pmguys do u all know anyones selling MG Strike freedom's beam shield only? i nid it for diorama making purpose...

This post has been edited by edwardgsk: Jun 20 2008, 08:04 PM

Haha, but WIP thread title says mecha modelling, so...

exiled>> the haruhi is figma haruhi right?

all guys>> how much a bottle of Future Floor Acrylic cost?

Yep, and the gunpla parts are from HGUC RX-78-2 and MG Strike arms (for shoulder armors)

woa haha... then now ur mg strike lost his shoulder armor and ur hguc rx-78-2 lost his both legs ad lor like tat haha...

Actually I recently bought a pair of MG Strike arms for my Tallgeese project. That part is the leftover from what I use on the Tallgeese. For HGUC RX-78-2, what's left are the torso, hip and bazooka only

aik?! the parts can be bought seperately ah?

I bought from fren lah. The parts i bought was also leftover from his project