Print out a picture of the building, or take the box lid with you to a paint store. They can laser scan the image and reproduce the color in a custom color for you. A quart can of the color will give you enough paint in that color to allow you to paint a lot of other things that color. You can either brush it on or thin it and airbrush it on. You can then change the shading (weather) the building with chalks or weathering powders.
Marlon
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I used that Walthers kit for a scratch/kit bash for My JaBear Construction Co. garage shop. Used doors and windows from other kits. Plastruct Trusses, Central Valley girders, SMD strip lights and Evergreen sheet stock. Front garage doors slide open and office and shop has a full interior. The chain link fence was made out of brass shapes and hardened brass rod soldered to gether. The chain link fence material is copper screen, soldered to the brass fence. Sliding gate does slide open. The whole fence was made to be removable. It just slides into holes made for the posts, that go into the Homasote base. It was designed as a drop in Diorama. Main adhesive used was Plastruct Plastic Weld, Orange label. All paint is Tamiya Military dead flat colors. Excellant air-brush paint. Not so good for brush painting......touch up, fine. Desert Yellow, Red Brown and Aluminum are the main colors.
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Frank
Red auto primer in a rattle can makes a good brick color. Different brands are slightly different colors, but brick colors vary considerably too.
Good luck,
Richard
Vallejo Brick Colors:
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Model Color #982 Cavalry Red
Model Color #985 Hull Red
Panzer Aces #307 German Tail Light Red
Model Color #859 Black Red
Panzer Aces #343 Shadow Flesh
Model Color #846 Mohagany Brown
Model Color #940 Saddle Brown
There are lots more that are suitable.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
The main building, the higher part with the truck loading dock, appears to be a cinder block building. I would paint it with light gray auto primer, either Krylon or Rustoleum, from a rattle can, to look like plain unpainted cinder block. I would paint the brick portions of the office walls with red auto primer, also rattle can, also Krylon or Rustoleum. The auto primers will cover anything, and dry dead flat. You need to wash the plastic parts in hot soapy water, rinse them well, and dry thoroughly (over night) before painting. Hold the rattle can about 1 and a half feet away. Move the can from side to side at a steady pace. Start spray before encountering the model parts and keep spraying until the spray is clear of the model on the far side. Paint should go on just barely wet. Avoid too wet which leads to sags and runs. Avoid letting the paint dry before it hits the model surfaces.
If you like you can paint the cinder block to look like painted cinder block. Such buildings are usually painted a light color, white, beige, something like that. There are rattle can paints sold in all the colors of the rainbow. Most of 'em are gloss paint, but you can make it flat with a top coat of Testor's DullCote.
David Starr www.newsnorthwoods.blogspot.com
I think the cornice is concrete color and the block is a shade of brown.
I'd use rustoleum camo sand color. When dry if it looked too bright, I would airbrush with a very dilute white acrylic. If it looked to light I'd weather it with an india ink wash. Or I'd use one of the darker pastels.
I wouldn't lose a lot of sleep over the exact color. In any city there a various shades of tan and brick buildings.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
mbinsewi The main plant, and area with the loading dock, is concrete block. The office section is brick. It's best to take a brick wall section with you while you search for a color. Pretty hard to do, looking at a picture of a picture of a printed box. And I have no clue as to what colors the manufactures you mentioned have, and who has it in stock. Like I said, I would take a wall section, that I want to match, with me, and go to stores with the biggest selection of paint, and see what I could find. Mike.
The main plant, and area with the loading dock, is concrete block. The office section is brick.
It's best to take a brick wall section with you while you search for a color. Pretty hard to do, looking at a picture of a picture of a printed box.
And I have no clue as to what colors the manufactures you mentioned have, and who has it in stock.
Like I said, I would take a wall section, that I want to match, with me, and go to stores with the biggest selection of paint, and see what I could find.
Mike.
Thanks, I did not realise that most of the stucture was "concrete" block but now that I look at it I guess it is under the weathering affects.
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I'd suggest heading for the nearest hardware store or home center and finding appropriate colors of spray paint. I use those for nearly all my structures. For concrete block, I typically use Testors Camouflage Gray or Light Aircraft Gray instead.
To determine color choices, I like to use something Like Google or Bing street view in an area with similar prototypes, taking note of the prototype variations. Then again, when building a kit I rarely want to match the color to the box artwork.
Rob Spangler
mbinsewi Your trying to match the color of the walls in the kit? Mike.
Your trying to match the color of the walls in the kit?
Painted concrete block structures are very common, done today, all over. First coat, and sometimes the second, is a block filler, that fills the pourous surface of the block, and seals it.
Then the finish coats are applied.
Paint it what ever color you want.
I'm not familiar with that kit, but the version in your link looks as if the concrete blocks of the factory portion have been done in a grey/buff colour that looks quite similar to how such blocks would look after several years of exposure to the weather. If you can't find or mix that colour, or don't like it, you can paint that portion whatever colour you wish. It was not uncommon for cement block structures to be painted.
As for the brick office, I'd guess that a not-too-dark brown would work, in conjunction with some drywall mud used as "mortar" - it will mute the brown somewhat when the excess is rubbed off.Likewise for the brick colour, though: if you can't match it or don't wish to match it, pick a colour. Bricks come in all sorts of colours, white to black and just about any colour in between. There are glazed bricks, too, with a shiny finish.I think that the Walthers version looks pretty good, but it's your layout, and your choice.
Wayne
I am gathering all my paints I will need to eventually paint a few structures I have. I have the Magic Pan Bakery https://www.walthers.com/magic-pan-commercial-bakery-kit-16-x-8-x-3-1-2-quot-40-6-x-20-3-x-8-8cm listed here. I am trying to figure out what paint color this might be from either Vallejo, Tamiya, or Modelmaster paints. Also could anyone suggest other paint color choices that might look better?