Hola! So i just got my twotone pulsie in the post (Surprised at how solid the thing is, very impressed!), started running through the list of mods to make to it, went foraging for my airbrush to check it was alright to find that it wasn't.

Thing's knackered, need to get a new one, and i won't be able to afford that for a while, at least not alongside saving for spatty goodness.

So, to stop the pulse rifle work being delayed for however long it takes me to find an airbrush on the side of the street or in a loot drop, are there any good/comparable green sprays around? Obviously it's pretty easy to find one labelled 'olive drab' for the milly modellers, less so to know what the colour actually comes out like, or how durable/useable it is.

Asking it here rather than in another section since, y'know, preferably find one available in the UK easily rather than krylon or something of the sort that'll screw me over on shipping/customs.

Halfords do a spray paint thats a pretty servicable OD. Its just labelled as camouflage, green.

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MSgt Samantha 'Boltie' Watters
Chief Medical Officer, UKCM
1st Batt. 42nd Regiment - Hadrian's Wall

Area 52 Bioweapons division - Amber T. Alien


"Harsh"

like bolty said, however IMHO it could do with being slightly darker

oh and not all halfrauds stores stock it mate

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If your Halfords doesn't have it in stock or you don't like the shade you could try this stuff from Marcus Glenn who are a major Ex-Military Vehicle Dealer.

http://www.showroom.milweb.net/product.php?cust_id=32&cat_id=205&item_id=7144

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Cheers

Winch

"Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow I shall fear no evil for thou art with me. And together we'll kick ANY bugs ASS!"
You know who you are!

Cheers! i shall have a gander at halfords and see if they have it, give it a tester. Need to have a primer raid there anyway.

It being a bit light isn't a problem, i'll just blackwash it a little more heavily, that said if it still doesn't work out, dinnae suppose you have an example pic of the stuff from that site Winch?

Hi Adenn,
Sorry no sample I'm afraid but since it is a NATO colour it should be standard and appropriately military in tone.

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Cheers

Winch

"Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow I shall fear no evil for thou art with me. And together we'll kick ANY bugs ASS!"
You know who you are!

I've not used them, but came across this supplier when searching for a UK source of Aervoe Earth Brown (meant to be a decent match to BB). Carry olive drab, too.

http://jayjaysbrecon.co.uk/acatalog/Onl ... nt_52.html

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Weyland-Yutani: Their projects are intentionally full of bugs. Avoid!

Did you find a good match for BB?

just done snow wolf repaint , spent ages hunting around for the various BB alternatives , then found krylon chocolate brown. It looks pretty close to me and under darker lighting conditions does seem to mimic the qualities of the original E.g looks brown in daylight and OD when I'm sitting in the lounge with the lamp on smiling at my pulsey. got my tin from hobbycraft in northampton , but should be easy enough to find .

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rockin in the free world !

If the worst comes to the worst, SOF do OD in a Spray can...

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In the chaos of battle, when the ground beneath your feet is a slurry of blood, puke, piss and the entrails of friends and enemies alike, it's easy to turn to the gods for salvation. But it's soldiers who do the fighting, and soldiers who do the dying, and the gods never get their feet wet.

Talked to jayjays about their OD spray, since the swatch has 2 different olive drabs and i wanted to know which it was, to find out it was neither, it was actually the semi-gloss one they have in stock. However! found a decent-looking UK stocker of Krylon camo paints, so i'll probably just go for their OD for ease.

There's always Humbrol:
http://www.wonderlandmodels.com/paints- ... pray/matt/

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In the chaos of battle, when the ground beneath your feet is a slurry of blood, puke, piss and the entrails of friends and enemies alike, it's easy to turn to the gods for salvation. But it's soldiers who do the fighting, and soldiers who do the dying, and the gods never get their feet wet.

I was going to suggest Humbrol (wasn't sure if it was still in the market)

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Jeffrey Hughes "Huggies"
Corporal, USCM
UD-4 "Cheyenne" Pilot
Dropship Argonne

They're reformulating a lot of their paints, and moving production back to UK Jeffrey

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In the chaos of battle, when the ground beneath your feet is a slurry of blood, puke, piss and the entrails of friends and enemies alike, it's easy to turn to the gods for salvation. But it's soldiers who do the fighting, and soldiers who do the dying, and the gods never get their feet wet.

I believe they are trying to make all their paints acrylic based, along with revell, due to environmental issues.

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AKA: Simon

They can't transport them by Air,Simon.

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In the chaos of battle, when the ground beneath your feet is a slurry of blood, puke, piss and the entrails of friends and enemies alike, it's easy to turn to the gods for salvation. But it's soldiers who do the fighting, and soldiers who do the dying, and the gods never get their feet wet.

http://www.fire-support.co.uk/search.ph ... submit.y=0

here ya go pal, hope this is of some use to you
( if you're wondering about what shade the olive drab is, i used it on my colonial marine-a-like helmet in my picture)

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ever wondered what the colour blue tastes like......?

Krylon is cool just use it in a well ventalated area (speaking from bad experience )

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That's the one i have now, actually. Testered it a few times, looks pretty perfect for me, nice balanced colour.

Yeah, lots of experience with krylon on other projects, i just had a dick of a time finding the camos for cheap over here, until i found fire support. Cheers for the advice, though

and due to new EU and UK rules reguarding paint chemicals.

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AKA: Simon

It's getting serious now, TBH

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In the chaos of battle, when the ground beneath your feet is a slurry of blood, puke, piss and the entrails of friends and enemies alike, it's easy to turn to the gods for salvation. But it's soldiers who do the fighting, and soldiers who do the dying, and the gods never get their feet wet.

Eh??

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AKA: Simon

Hannants will only post 4 pots of paint now, White Ensign are getting their deliveries confiscated, The Army Painter are getting their kit opened and ruined...serious business TBH

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In the chaos of battle, when the ground beneath your feet is a slurry of blood, puke, piss and the entrails of friends and enemies alike, it's easy to turn to the gods for salvation. But it's soldiers who do the fighting, and soldiers who do the dying, and the gods never get their feet wet.