Translating a paint guide?

Go Flight · Post by **Go Flight** » Wed Feb 10, 2016 5:27 pm

I hope this is in the right place. I picked up the Bentenmaru kit from Hasagawa at the SSM store.
Looking thru it I saw an RLM color in what assume is the paint guide, but the rest of it is a guess.
Can anyone translate this for me?

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IGh1k4Cd2Nk/ ... G_4069.jpg

TIA

kenlilly106 · Post by **kenlilly106** » Wed Feb 10, 2016 6:00 pm

White numbers in black boxes are Gunze Mr. Color Lacquers:
http://www.ipmsstockholm.org/colorchart ... or_map.htm

Black numbers in white boxes are the aqueous acrylics:
http://www.ipmsstockholm.org/colorchart ... ze_map.htm

Go Flight · Post by **Go Flight** » Wed Feb 10, 2016 7:31 pm

Great! Thanks for the quick reply!

Ramsayman · Post by **Ramsayman** » Wed Feb 10, 2016 7:59 pm

Is that the case for all of these Japanese kits? I have a few and just wasn't smart enough to ask here.

naoto · Post by **naoto** » Wed Feb 10, 2016 8:05 pm

Ramsayman wrote:Is that the case for all of these Japanese kits? I have a few and just wasn't smart enough to ask here.

It does appear to vary between different kit manufacturers. Sometimes you see reference to Tamiya paints.