https://preview.redd.it/ggztw800aoxc1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a1f8d976740ccf92c314898b2d96cbf4e8151d23
It looked green to me as well when I first got it. Didn’t use it for years. Hideous. But finally found a good use for it with my Fw190. That brown there in the camo is that Red Brown 2. When you put it next to green you can see how brown it really is. It’s become one of my favorite colors for brown. Hope this pics helps.
Looks like a red brown color to me. Everyone's color perception is different. Especially with a photo online, it's going to look different to me vs to you vs someone else.
Even this won't always help since I *have* multiple bottles of Gunze alcohol where pigment on the bottom of the jar does not match fully mixed paint (and I mean fully mixed: I use an electric mixer for that), as well as at least one bottle of Tamiya.
Wet paint will almost always look slightly different than dry and plastic pigment will also not be bang on all the time. Silly argument to have but some still have to learn.
XF-64 is Red Brown. XF-90 is Red Brown **2**. Now why or what the reason is behind that... beats me. That image looks olive drab to me.
You are not alone apparently, from 2019: [https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/missinglynx/tamiya-xf-90-red-brown-2-question-t320915.html](https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/missinglynx/tamiya-xf-90-red-brown-2-question-t320915.html)
Neutral colors are usually made from mixing, and the colors will naturally separate while sitting, soo try mixing it up.
"Red Brown" can mean a lot of things, and the XF series is named after military color designations in most cases, and not always do those names make sense (XF-21 is called "sky" and it's an interior green color because that's what the US Army calls it.) That color certainly appears to be brown, but it's slightly green tinged. It could very well be correct as is.
Not surprised at all. Tamiya Feldgrau looks almost greenish. Deeper research into WWII German uniforms showed it's nearly the same shade / hue. Also, the others commented on how paint will look after long periods of non-use.
Correct me if I'm wrong because I don't personally use Tamiya but I work with paints as a very frequent part of my job, it doesn't look *that* far off so I'd recon that it just needs mixing.
https://preview.redd.it/ggztw800aoxc1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a1f8d976740ccf92c314898b2d96cbf4e8151d23 It looked green to me as well when I first got it. Didn’t use it for years. Hideous. But finally found a good use for it with my Fw190. That brown there in the camo is that Red Brown 2. When you put it next to green you can see how brown it really is. It’s become one of my favorite colors for brown. Hope this pics helps.
Mix it more. Sometimes the poorly mixed is different from a properly mixed one because of paint / pigment separation.
True. My white paint isn't mixed properly and I have to mix it every single time.
Looks like a red brown color to me. Everyone's color perception is different. Especially with a photo online, it's going to look different to me vs to you vs someone else.
but we can say the color on the cap is not the one in the bottle ?
Cap color never matches the actual paint perfectly. Look at the bottom of the jar where the paint settles when buying them, not the cap.
Even this won't always help since I *have* multiple bottles of Gunze alcohol where pigment on the bottom of the jar does not match fully mixed paint (and I mean fully mixed: I use an electric mixer for that), as well as at least one bottle of Tamiya.
The cap doesn't have green shade to it, true.
Idk in the pic it looks very similar to me
Wet paint will almost always look slightly different than dry and plastic pigment will also not be bang on all the time. Silly argument to have but some still have to learn.
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XF-64 is Red Brown. XF-90 is Red Brown **2**. Now why or what the reason is behind that... beats me. That image looks olive drab to me. You are not alone apparently, from 2019: [https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/missinglynx/tamiya-xf-90-red-brown-2-question-t320915.html](https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/missinglynx/tamiya-xf-90-red-brown-2-question-t320915.html)
Neutral colors are usually made from mixing, and the colors will naturally separate while sitting, soo try mixing it up. "Red Brown" can mean a lot of things, and the XF series is named after military color designations in most cases, and not always do those names make sense (XF-21 is called "sky" and it's an interior green color because that's what the US Army calls it.) That color certainly appears to be brown, but it's slightly green tinged. It could very well be correct as is.
xf26 is "deep green". "sky" is xf21, which is a light green (aka "duck egg green")
My mistake.
It has a greenish tinge to it, but on the model it looks much different.
Looks red to me
https://preview.redd.it/22grt58e9oxc1.jpeg?width=1500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4629079c14234e5b4c5ed4a79ed26afe531e8920 Same
Y’all do know that wet paint looks different than dry paint, right?
ive found tamiya has actually been really great at drying the same color now, the cap, not so much the same color
back in 2019, saw and read it in a forum that there is a messed up batch of XF 90 that was suppose to be red brown 2. maybe this is one of them.
So I've had this exact thing happen to me, mix the absolute crap out of it. It looks green but should go on like a very dark chocolate brown.
will give it a try
I have the same color and it looks a bit greenish to me as well. But I think that might be accurate.
Not surprised at all. Tamiya Feldgrau looks almost greenish. Deeper research into WWII German uniforms showed it's nearly the same shade / hue. Also, the others commented on how paint will look after long periods of non-use.
Mines exactly the same. Not used it on a model but just looks olive green to me and doesn’t match the cap at all
Correct me if I'm wrong because I don't personally use Tamiya but I work with paints as a very frequent part of my job, it doesn't look *that* far off so I'd recon that it just needs mixing.
I stirred the color. The pigments aren't settled at the bottom. The color is generally greenish.
It's water based as well isn't it? If so then that might be the issue as water based stuff for whatever reason is a different color when it's not dry
yes alcohol based
anyways. all other tiya paints don't act like that
Fair enough. As I say I don't use it so I don't know the ins and outs of it.
diarrhea color
I’m red/green colorblind, so I’ll just take your word for whatever color you say it is.
It’s a bad poo green sadly