How do you guys mix your colours?

[alfred_62]

How do you mix your colours to get the desired colours?

I did some research and found this colour wheel. I also used photoshop(eye drop) to find the RGB colours. I will be buying mr color. So i will be buying red green blue and mix then accordingly to the ratio given.

Can anyone pont me to a direction where i can read or something?

Thanks in advance.

[ChairmanMeow]

Colour wheels are a good tool for pointing you in the general direction for achieving the colour you are after. Also, a good understanding of how colours work and interact with each other will help your end results.

Generally, I don't mix my colours to such exacting standards. I visualise the colour I want and mix accordingly. However, if I know that I will need the same colour later in a model, I mix to measurements.

The tools I use: Translucent film cannisters, eye droppers, surgical syringes.

By eye: Use the eye dropper to transfer the paint from your bottle/tinlet into the film cannister (a different eye dropper for each colour evidently, and do not let the paint or cleaning agent go into the end of the eye dropper as it will over time corrode the rubber end) . Work in drops of paint, two reasons, it is a crude measuring system, and you can go from the almost the right colour to completely the wrong if you add to much to quickly. Stir after each drop is added. Continue process until the correct colour is achieved.

By measure: Sames as above just use the syringes instead of the eye droppers and pay careful note to the paint volume using the measurments on the syringe. Also note, that enamel and lacquer based paints will corrode the rubber portion of the plunger in the syringe so try to have spares on hand.

Due to the translucent nature of the film cannister, it is a good idea to hold it so the light shines directly down into the cannister. If you can't have the light shining into it at all times, then continuously pause and check the colour.

I have found that colour mixing is one of those things that improves with practice and experience.

Hope this makes sense.

[Dr.H]

I agree that the "color wheel" or book is good for finding out which basic colors make what when mixed togeather but other than that I eyeball it in a paint jar or tin like ChairmanMeow said. It seems that since all of the paint companys make so many different color variants that somtimes to get the color you want you just have to play with it some. Just remember that it will take a few light coats to get the color you want and that if you apply a color over a dark base that color will look darker also.