This Years Pink Planes

[Leigh]

Alright I know it's not wiffy, but it's becoming a tradition to make pink planes for the girls at Christmas, due to their concern for my mental health at my evergrowing stash of subjects they think are boring, and their indifference at anything I actually finish always followed by the comment "would look better if it was pink".
This years builds are going to be an Academy 1/72 B-24D assembly plane, bright yellow with red polka dots and an Arii 1/48 Spitfire mkVIII done up as a pink PRU MK X. Reason I'm starting this thread now not having even started the kits is I need some help.
What's a good paint to use for the PRU pink? I know xtracolour do one but that's not really an option because of availability out here and the drying time required.
Anyone else make an acrylic that's a similar colour? My preferences are Misterkit and Gunze Sangyo and if they don't make a similar colour I'm willing to mix red and white, but to what proportions? Suggestions anyone?

[nev]

Leigh, twobobs stock xtracolour in the states

[Leigh]

Thank you, thank you , thank you another reminder why I frequent this site.
I posted a similar question on ARC only to be told that the pic I had was not an original Spitfire but a repainted Warbird on the show circuit and ergo completely the wrong pink, there was no such thing as a Spitfire PR MK X and only PR I's were Pink, and that an F Mk VIII was completely the wrong base kit and which Tamigawa kit and after market accessories neccessary for accuracy I had to buy. But not much help with the paint colour.
Funny how these know it alls don't even know which pic I'm looking at and it's just not worth the effort to tell them I've got a black and white pic of a Spit PRU Mk X in a very pale colour, in service with 541 squadron, a history of the PRU Mks X, XI and XIX and a colour plate of the same plane stating it was in service with 541 at Benson, Oxen in 1945. Oh well I guess my books are wrong and the JMN's are right.

Nev I can mail order Xtracolour here but having to build this thing on the sly(probably in a weekend) so my little one doesn't see it I don't wanna have to be messing with the drying time Xtracolour requires.

Not found extracrylics out here, someone did mention mixing tan and red instead of white and red, you reckon desert pink and red or mayby yellow would work?

I love the guys here.

[NARSES2]

Leigh

I checked to see if Xtracrylic do a PR Pink - and they don't yet - otherwise I could have popped one in the post.

I'm a terrible colour judge, but what about desert sand (especially RAF Gulf) mixed with a little red - it's then in a nice faded pink.

One of my favourite schemes by the way

Chris

[Leigh]

Right finally cleaned up the bomb site that was my bench and has been scaring me away for three weeks. Got started on the Spitfire and found a new medium for seat belts. Heard about people using the foil off wine bottles but that's not really an option for me seeing as I don't drink, but last week I opened one of those new 2lb plastic cans of folgers coffee, and instead of needing a tin opener it's sealed with some nice heavy foil. Like a good pack rat modeler I thought " that'll come in useful".
And yes great for making seat belts and buckles and one can yields a piece of foil the size of a plate. Behold........

[Radish]

There WERE some Pink Spitfire PR.IXs, 16 Sqn? cannon removed and a camera window in the usual spot behind the cockpit, certainly on the port side.
Roundels above the wing "B"type, and also on the fuselage "B" type, but smaller.
D-Day striping as they operated around that time, but presumably also without the striping. The fin flash was the standard C-type but smaller. White single letter code, such as X and V, behind the fuselage roundel. Serials tiny in night.
All this from memory as I built one once.
But there should be stuff out there.

The "expert" on ARC needs his bollocks twanging  

[kurly]

awe.... and weve been recycling that for years..........GOOD JOB!

[cthulhu77]

Nice belts !!!  If you ever need any foil, just write...looks to me, though, that what you have might be better. (how odd, I drink wine, but not coffee...)

[Captain Canada]

" Go pink or go home "

Nice job on the seatbelts, leigh ! I'll have to try that ! I want to model my Hobbycrap Tutor with the canopy open, so am going to have to try all sorts of new tricks to add an interior to the basic one that comes in the kit.........

 

[Jeffry Fontaine]

I posted a similar question on ARC only to be told that the pic I had was not an original Spitfire but a repainted Warbird on the show circuit and ergo completely the wrong pink, there was no such thing as a Spitfire PR MK X and only PR I's were Pink, and that an F Mk VIII was completely the wrong base kit and which Tamigawa kit and after market accessories neccessary for accuracy I had to buy. But not much help with the paint colour.
Funny how these know it alls don't even know which pic I'm looking at and it's just not worth the effort to tell them I've got a black and white pic of a Spit PRU Mk X in a very pale colour, in service with 541 squadron, a history of the PRU Mks X, XI and XIX and a colour plate of the same plane stating it was in service with 541 at Benson, Oxen in 1945. Oh well I guess my books are wrong and the JMN's are right.

Leigh, are you trolling for JMN's again?  Looks like you used the right "lure" this time to get an immediate hit on your "hook."  Have you tried using the Acrylics from "Michaels" Craft Stores?  My friend uses them extensively and has had very good results with them.  On the plus side, they are cheaper than the main stream modeling products.    

[John Howling Mouse]

Wow, those seats look fantastic.

All I've ever read about anything pink in the military was that, like the Brit's "Pink Panther" Rover, the pink subjects started out as a desert camo tan that simply morphed to a dusty pink in the desert sun as some of the paint's pigments were blasted by light/heat before the others.

I'd start with a very pale tan, adding small amounts of dull red to it and, if it becomes too vibrant, tone it down a tad with "neutral grey."  Oh yeah, and don't forget Baz's Rule:  

"Once you get the color right, make at least twice what you believe you'll need!"

Again, those seats look fantastic.

[Leigh]

Have you tried using the Acrylics from "Michaels" Craft Stores?  My friend uses them extensively and has had very good results with them.  On the plus side, they are cheaper than the main stream modeling products.

K are these their own brand or just one they stock. Jar or tube? Airbrushable?
I go past a Michaels every day and it's quite a trek for me to get to a "decent Hobby shop that stocks anything other than MM or Tamiya paints, both of which I don't think I'll ever use again for airbrushing after discovering Misterkit and gunze Sangyo, this could be a great scoop.

[Leigh]

K the Spit is done till I get some paint and I know it's not much of a WOW pic an unfinished Spitfire. Drilled out some camera ports two on the bottom one on the side and have come up with nifty little way of mking them work, I hope, we'll see after it's painted. Tooks the guns off but before I did, and this is the fun part, I'm running round the house with the Spit making aeroplane noises, doing some nifty rolls and loops with it and going bat a bata bata rata rata tat atat abat tat shooting at everything especially the Eric the Dog (he's of German descent a Schnauzer). Jonelle who's on the internet and the phone at the same time (how do women manage to do two things at once?) is looking at me like I'm completely insane and starting to get a tad irratated with a spitfire buzzing her head and strafing her....
No matter how hard I explained she just couldn't understand that it had to be done NOW 'cos once the guns came off it wasn't gonna be the same buzzing around  with the cameras going Click click click

[Leigh]

So the Spit's on hold and I started on the B-24D, not the Academy one as I had hoped just couldn't find one but an old Revell one. One of the classic vintage, working features, giant rivets and twisted misshapen parts that don't match. As you can see the interior's gonna need some work the key is not to go over the top 'cos yer not gonna see much through the distorted greenhouse, but I think a bulkhead or two might be in order, an instrument panel might be nice, and I'm not too happy with the bombadiers seat floating in mid air.

[Leigh]

Yeah checking the two pics I'm working from the "chin" is a bit squarer, but seeing as it's for my nine year old I think I can live with the error, but useful to know for when I make my fleet of 1/72 Spit's. She's only gonna care that it doesn't have Shark teeth like last years P-40. Got enough on my plate dealing with wretched Revell B-24 to go messing with the Spit. I really like Arii 1/48 kits though can't speak to the accuracy but they're cheap, they just feel "right" in your hands, nice detail and the engineering is great practically snap together. As you can see from the pic no filling or sanding needed.
And for next year I've found a pic of a pink He-111.