Acrysion - khaki zelená

Khaki green for field equipment and vehicles

Khaki green fits everywhere green meets the brown dirt of a field: canvas tarpaulins, packs, ammunition crates, the engine covers of trucks and the whole finish of the vehicles of interwar and wartime armies. Against a pure green it is more muted and on a model it looks less toy-like, which helps especially in small scales.

The shade comes from the Acrysion range, that is from the water-thinnable acrylic of the Gunze brand intended for modeling work. The manufacturer's description states that it is laid on by spraying and that brush application is not reckoned with for it.

How to work with it: first mix the contents of the bottle thoroughly, so that the pigment settled at the bottom returns into the binder. Spray several light passes rather than one heavy one, and let the surface flash off between them. A heavy coat fills the fine panel grooves and rivets, which no wash will then pick out.

Khaki green goes with the ocher and brown tones of the same range, so a transition for fading the upper surfaces can be mixed from them. Anyone who wants to take the modulation route can add a drop of a lighter color into the middle of large panels and leave the edges darker.

Before a wash or a decal it is worth going over the dry finish with a gloss coat, so that pigment does not catch in the microscopic roughness of a flat surface and the decals do not silver.

Sealing with a flat coat at the end returns the surface to the look a vehicle had in the field and at the same time evens out the sheen between the sprayed and the weathered parts.