Re: Olive Green Gloss Paint ? Does it exist.

Oct 07, 2003 11 Replies

The Aussie army where I served used to use a gloss olive green for it's Ford utility vehicles. Sort of similar colour to the old Landrovers that were about back then. Was probably mixed up like any other car paint by getting the paint shop to add colour to the can.



See your local car paint shop and they could mix you up a can of enamel with whatever colour you would like. Just take a sample and they can generally match anything, even if the sample is matt and you want gloss.



Hope this helps, Peter



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It's stretching it a bit for models, but I used to have some Imron Gloss Olive. The USAR's U-8 & U-3 were paited with it at my local airport. I also had some spray cans of Gloss Olive enamel. Yes, it exists. Why not just use flat & gloss coat it tho?

That's what I did with a model of Marine One. Glosscoat, dried for several days, then Future. Came out great.

Tom

A couple years ago, there was an article in SAE where a '70 Camaro was painted Model Master Olive Drab and glosscoated as it was real close to a GM color of the time. While I wouldn't have purchased a 1:1 scale vehicle with that color, the paint job looked great on the model. I'd go that route as well.

Frank Kranick IPMS/USA 20352

Maiesm72 wrote:

Gunze Olive Drab and Kawasaki Green are listed as SG - Semi-Gloss. Overpaint with clear gloss if it's not shiny enough.

Rarely found on this side of the pond, alas. I remember the little Testors bottles had a gloss olive but that was back in the Stone Age.

Bill Banaszak, MFE

Bill Banaszak waxed lyrical news:3F860E3E.AB1C5B90 @verizon.net:

Fair enough, but I was merely pointing out that what he wanted *IS* available. About 95% of my paint is bought by mail order anyway Bill, so I just presume that's how everyone buys it!(what, you mean you have a SHOP you can go to?!?!? Wow! How does that work then?) ;)

Some of the US mail order stockists do carry Xtracolor, but they rarely maintain the full range.

And if you buy it from the source, you have to buy a kit as well.

Plus, US buyers have a minimum order.

On a completely different note: Drewe, your Topgun A-4 (finished with Gekko Graphicc decals) was sweet!

Regards,

Scott G. Welch

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Yeah, I was pretty happy with it! Those Gekko Graphics decals come highly recommended. . .

Flat Olive Green + gloss coat.

We USED to have a shop here that handled Testors Model master enamels but currently we only have acrylics available. To get Humbrol's requires a 60 mile drive at least. Yeah, I have to order my paints through the mail now.

Bill Banaszak, MFE

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