Conversion Mr Color into Spray (mr Hobby S or Tamiya TS-AS)

[Phigla]

Good afternoon,

I am looking for the equivalent in Mr Hobby or Tamiya in Spray of the Mr Color C 305, 308, 337,

If  member can help me, I did not found any reply browsing the net

Thanks in advance and happy new year 2024

 

Philippe

[Ben Brown]

Hi Philippe,

 

C305 is FS 36118 Gunship Grey. The Tamiya equivalent is TS-48. Tamiya doesn’t have TS or AS rattle can equivalent of FS 36375 (C308) or FS 35327 (C337), and it looks like Mr Hobby’s line of spray cans doesn’t, either. If you have an airbrush, you can mix Tamiya XF paints to match or use the specific Gunze acrylic/Mr Color lacquer colors.

 

Ben

 

[Phigla]

Thanks for your reply Ben.

I wanted to use spay because is a big surface to avoid boring airbrush cleaning operations.

I'm building the Trumpeter 1/48 Chinese J-20.

Thanks

[Ben Brown]

Understood! I’m starting to have difficulty airbrushing large areas because my trigger finger cramps up after a while. Rattle cans are looking better and better! 

 

Ben

[Robertson]

I also use rattle cans.

 

Keeping the spray can coats thin is very hard on objects that have complicated, protruding, or concave  shapes... You have to realise that you have to aim for a precise square angle from far away, and move sharply your entire arm, not just the can, to maintain an even coverage while spraying from very far (but not changing the angle does allow keeping panel lines dark, and other nice effects with black basing), which means a large amplitude of arm movement for the slightest angle adjustment.

 

Spray cans also tend to be aggressive (especially if the coat is wet, which is almost inevitable) to any underlying putty that was not highly polished, but I have found the Revell Acrylic spray can range has a finer mist, and its aggression of underlying surfaces is far less than the Tamiyas. That alone made the Revell cans a revolution for me. The Revell coat is also super-hard, totally impervious to subsequent Tamiya coats. Their clear matte and clear gloss are also incredibly tough, nail-proof, literally industrial-grade compared to all the other spray cans clears, but sometimes a very slight amount of clear matte frosting on dark colours will need to be killed by Tamiya's own matte, TS-80... My LHS simply cannot keep these Revell clear cans in stock. I have learned to buy the entire rack of Revell clear cans, gloss or matte, whenever there are any. Not the least of their good points is the better mist vs Tamiya's unforgiving deluge.

 

All the Tamiya metallics, especially their superb Alclad-like TS-83, are so hot they will inevitably crinkle bare plastic into an ugly haze, plus swell the most feathered of putty edges, and Tamiya's primer is not much help taming that compared to a coat of Revell (quite absurdly, the Tamiya spray can primer itself  has a carrier that will react with, and swell, their own putty edges). Mr Hobby has a finer spray than Tamiya, but their opacity seems weaker than Revell. Keeping layers thin is always a big struggle with cans, and achieving good results is much harder than with an airbrush... I use them because they are cheap, fast, simple and reliable (no sputter unless near the end), but everything else about them is way more complicated if you want to approximate (some) airbrush results...