Hello,
i am new to this forum and would like to use this thread as a start.
A few month ago i did an online-build of Zvezda's Pe-8.
My first intention was to use Hatakas acrylics but after a paint-test i finally used Akan paints.
Not because Hatakas paints were unusable, but because they seemed wrong in their visual
appearance. Don't get me wrong. The quality of the paint is very good, comparable to Vallejos
acrylics which i like a lot.
As a newbie to the subject of soviet modeling i got some valuable information on that forum by
people who seemed to know a lot on this topic.
It also brought me to this forum as a guest and here i found, and still do so, even more informations.
But enough talk.
Here is my contribution by showing a picture i did while doing that online-build.
It is a side-by-side comparison of the Hataka- and Akan-paints i had for the Pe-8.
Focus on the paints and not the very old Lightning-model. It's from way back in the
seventies when a strong undercarriage for the rough landings on the floor were more
important to me than questions on colors
Bilder hochladenI tried a lot of camera-settings to create a picture which gets close to the appearance of the colours
in reality. It might be a little bit lighter than the real thing but comes very close.
The difference is clearly visible i think.
But in comparison with other colours the A-21m changed it's appearance again as you can see
on this picture on the Pe-8 (with Akan's AMT-4 and AMT-12)
Bilder hochladenThe paints on that picture are pure from the bottle, no fading/washing....
So beside AMT-7, which seem to be okay, Hataka's A-21m, AMT-4 and AMT-12 seem to be wrong?
At least for a newbie like me it looks to be that way.
I hope this might be useful for some people and also hope to contribute more to this forum in the future.
Greetings from Germany
Friedhelm
PS: i think AMT-12 for the Pe-8 is as wrong as the AMT-4 but i couldn't lay my hands on the correct colours
at that time.