I’m currently building a An-2, and I want to paint An-2 like the pic. What color should I use for this?
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Top one looks like medium green and medium red-brown (rust?) color. The bottom one looks like dark green and sand.
There was a lot of variation on these, so close enough is probably good.
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I can’t speak for everyone, but I imagine many of us have a collection of colors (and types) of paint that would rival Picasso’s. I often just look and make a decision based upon what looks right to the MK I eyeball. Then I may do a couple of color swatches to confirm.
I’m not home to look at what I’ve got right now, but that top green sure looks like faded olive.
The brown brown looks like that old school (square bottle) Testors military brown.
The sand looks like a shade of Vallejo I have, but without them in front of me, I can’t be sure. I suspect neither can you or anyone else. Do you have a well stocked hobby shop you can take the image to and compare? It’s not an exact science but you can get close.
My LHS will even lets me return paint as long as it’s not obviously depleted, so I’ve begun doing a little “one drop test” on all of these newer paints. (Newer for me, anyway) I’ve only returned one color after all this time. I figure sooner or later every cvolor will come in handy. Except garish sand yellow.
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Thanks for your help guys, I only have nato brown color, so I’m gonna use or mix with something. I hope this turns out well.
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I have a 1/72 one of these I was going to paint up to go with my Expendables planes. Wayne
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No DPRK version for you? We were always so worried about those flying across the DMZ filled with hundreds of thousands of “Special Forces” troops.
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It depends what color system do you use. For the lower plane I would use Tamiya XF-57 and XF-27 with XF-23 undersides. Can´t tell about the one above. It looks like a re-painted one after re-unification in a museum
Or the PAVN one reported shot down by a helicopter crew in Nam? Wayne
I remember an article about that years ago- something about the ability of the AN-2 to fly low and slow to avoid ROK radar. Can’t remember if they were to parachute out or if part of the plan was to land them somewhere. I kind of wonder if they still have enough of them air-worthy to carry put those ops. Then again some older planes like that just defy the years!
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Did you know that out of almost 20k An-2s built, about 15000 of them were built in Mielec, Poland? The production went down when socialism ended in Poland, but the last Polish An-2 was built in 2001. I heard that nowadays the spare parts are becoming something of a problem, but until recently they were readily available.
As for the colors almost everything goes - you can justify almost any colour by citing paint fading, mixing of remaining paint stocks and inaccuracy of the photo equipment to capture the real color. Certain organizations like Air Forces tried to standardize but the factors I mentioned tended to work against that.
Good luck with your build and have a nice day!
Paweł
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We saw these occasionally at the Czech border spraying herbicides
Heh, Did you stationed in korea? I wonder which year that was. and that’s a great story you’ve got there.
One month gigs, eight times in all. 2015-2019 or so. Korean Special Warfare in Songnam, and then Inchon when they built the new facility there. Message me if you like. I plan to take my wife snorkeling at Jeju within a few years.
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Hataka makes a set of DDR colors. Also numerous Warsaw Pact countries, North Korean , etc. This might be helpful too … Mikoyan MiG-23ML Flogger G East German Air Force Color Profile and Paint Guide East German Air force camouflage colors - The Unofficial Airfix Modellers' Forum
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Guys, I need help.
When I painting the fuselage, the airplane window must be covered with something.
I tried with masking tape, but I’m afraid damaging the window or plastic while cutting the taped line.
Is there other better solution or not?
Hi I usually use round dies for leather on masking tape, there are different sizes 0.5mm, 0.8mm, 1mm, 1.2mm, 1.5mm, 1.5mm, 1.8mm, 2mm, 2, 5mm, 3mm, 3.5mm, 4mm, 4.5mm, 5mm, 5.5mm, they are cheap and last a lifetime.
A bit of blu-tack might do the trick.
Great idea.
I don’t know how well the windows fit in that kit, but like most aircraft, my guess is not very well. In the photos at least, they appear to stand proud of the fuselage a bit, which of course is not correct. A lot of kits do this. But the windows on the AN-2 are slightly recessed, with the skin of the aircraft appearing to overlap them slightly. At that scale one thing you can do is apply CA around the edges of all the windows. After it sets sand everything smooth, even the windows themselves. Don’t worry - you’ll be able to polish out the windows and they’ll look better than when you started, Then mask as suggested above. You can often find round stickers meant for kids - I’m always looking for different sizes to use for masks. The drawback to this method is you could lose that recessed rivet detail unless you’re extremely careful.
Second option - it looks like there’s still time: Leave the windows out, and before final assembly of the fuselage, press it together (it doesn’t have to be perfect, and paint all of the area around the windows, including your second camo color. After the paint dries, install the windows, assemble the fuselage, and finish paining it. It may seem like cheating (because it is) but who cares? It looks great. I’ve done this on more than one larger scale aircraft.
There’s also a liquid mask you can purchase. It dries like rubber and you peel it off after you’re done. Not my most recommended method.
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Thank you all guys. It looks like my only option is blu tack or liquid mask.