General Polly Scale U.S. Medium Green No Longer Available

[TheBushmaster]

Hey folks,

Since the last event i willing to repaint my left chest armor, so went to look up some U.S. Medium Green N612, but can't find it anywhere, i think they're no longer available so is there any alternative for it?
Also i found that, Model Masters 1764 Euro Dark Green is similar to U.S. Medium Green, whats you opinions with that?

Thanks folks,
Emre-

 

[Fett 4 Real]

It's not even close to be honest. On ebay you might find some us medium though. It's been gone a while

 

[Peregrinus]

When Testors bought the other companies, they discontinued colors that were already represented in their line of paints. The response I got from them a couple years ago was the exact match is 2050 in their enamel line -- Olive Drab ANA613 - Flat, in their WWII US & UK militiary colors. Or, for close matches, the acrylic 4723 or 4727. I need to run and check what I ended up going with, comparing my bottles of POG and US Med Green to their recommended shades... I think the Euro I Dark Green was what I found was really darn close, Fett 4 Real, have you compared the paint in the bottles?

--Jonah

 

[Fett 4 Real]

Im not sure what youre asking....Euro Dark green isn't close at all to US Med green if that's what youre asking.

 

[Peregrinus]

I'm asking if you're going by the color chip online or comparing bottles in person. I took my last bottle of US Med Green in and compared it to every green several stores had -- not just Testors -- and the Euro I Dark Green (if I'm remembering right, still trying to dig out where I put them all) that I walked out with was so close I couldn't see more than the amount of variation I often see in bottles of the same color.

--Jonah

 

[Fett 4 Real]

I have had both in hand and done a swatch. Comparing the liquid is not effective IMHO.

 

[Peregrinus]

Weird... I did color chips, too. I'll see if I can find them. Once I was able to compare the dried paint (on various brightnesses of primer) I didn't keep track of them.

--Jonah

 

[Fett 4 Real]

I literally just threw it away

 

[Peregrinus]

Here's the most natural-light lit picture of the PrePro 2 suit that I can find (all the ESB shots are much more strongly lit):

And my custom underway under similar lighting:

For context, the paint-up I'm doing is based on the idea of matching the gray-primer/POG scheme of the helmet, under the notion that an original-issue set would match in colors. I ended up using the US Med Green and Euro I Dark Green as the mid-layer on both, with the Panzer Olive Green as the oxidized outer layer on both. This is what my paint job looked like prior to weathering. You can see the US Med Green/Euro I Dark Green showing through the scrapes, with the gray primer as the deeper layer exposed in other places:

Even in contrast to the POG, it doesn't look too dark to me, but I don't know how it would look on a yellow primer layer versus gray. Since I wasn't going to be doing the yellow on anything but shoulders and knees, I didn't bother doing a paint chip of that combo...

--Jonah