Hawk10 Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 (edited) Getting ready to start the WNW AMC DH-2 my wife gave me at Christmas and decided that I would get any paint ordered and on the way (looks like there are several places that are going to need painting before assembly and want to be sure the paint is on hand). Since my preferences in paint run to enamels and the instructions give Humbrol as their choice, that's how I'm going to go. Only problem is that some of the paints colors WNW recommend are either out of stock everywhere or are not listed any longer. For a couple of them I've figured out a replacement from the Model Master line and on the third I really need some advice. WNW recommends Humbrol 27003 Polished Steel but the only place that appears to stock it wants quite a bit more for it so I'm going to substitute MM 1402 Stainless Steel. The call out for the main grey is Humbrol 64 Matt Light Grey which seems to be out of stock, so I'm going to substitute MM 1741 Dark Ghost Grey. The last color just doesn't sound right to me, WNW calls for Humbrol 66 "Matt OD" (Call out on the Tamiya Acrylic side is NATO Black)so I'm going to substitue MM 2748 Black Semi Gloss. Does anyone have any thoughts or perhaps a better ideas/suggestions on this subject. Thanks Edited February 10, 2013 by Hawk10 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lesthegringo Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 Try this to help you http://www.paint4models.com/paintchart/paintconversionchart20100101b.html# Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Britaholic Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 The link did not work for me, but this site is good. http://ipmsstockholm.org/colorcharts/stuff_eng_colorcharts_humbrol.htm Cheers Dennis Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lesthegringo Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 It does work, you have to scroll down to the two red boxes about halfway down the page Quote Link to post Share on other sites
stevehnz Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 It does work, you have to scroll down to the two red boxes about halfway down the page Not if you've got a later version of Firefox. I can run it in Chrome or IE but it loads about a 1/3 of the way in FF & stalls out. Wish someone could fix it or maybe I should change to Chrome but I'm loath to use anymore of Google or Windows than I have to. Steve. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lesthegringo Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 There's a downloadable version of it, may be a way round it Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Hawk10 Posted February 10, 2013 Author Share Posted February 10, 2013 Thanks guys (forgot all about IPMS Stockholm) appreciate it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RichardL Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 Since my preferences in paint run to enamels and the instructions give Humbrol as their choice, that's how I'm going to go. This site has most Humbrol colors in stock, including Humbrol 64 (no polished steel, unfortunately): Humbrol Enamel Paints Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nzgunnie Posted March 2, 2013 Share Posted March 2, 2013 Humbrol 66 is a very dark grey, Tamiya NATO black is pretty close, maybe a bit darker. I wouldn't use an actual black though, it is definately a dark grey. Model Master make an 'aircraft interior black' that should be about right. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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