Translating a paint guide?

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Go Flight
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Translating a paint guide?

Post by Go Flight »

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
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Post by kenlilly106 »

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
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Post by Go Flight »

Great! Thanks for the quick reply! :D
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Post by Ramsayman »

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

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