Mecha Mobile Suit - Green colors

A green palette for robotic machines

The set is put together so that a whole mecha model can be painted with it, from the base covering coat through the grading of the panels to the metal details. There are five green tones inside and they differ in temperature and saturation, so you can move smoothly between them on the torso, the limbs and the head of the machine.

What it is made up of

Besides the greens it holds three gray shades for neutral areas and shading, a yellow for warning stripes and markings, and three metallic colors: silver, dark metal and burnt metal for barrels, joints and exhaust outlets. It is exactly the combination of matte surfaces with metallic accents that gives a robotic model the depth that a single flat green coat will never have.

Use

• twelve bottles of acrylic paint in one package
• five greens, three grays, one yellow and three metallic tones
• an airbrush will handle it as well as an ordinary brush
• the shades fit together without any mixing

Shake the contents thoroughly before use, thin the paint in small steps for the airbrush and lay it down in thin coats. On smooth plastic it pays to put down a primer, as the adhesion is then markedly better. Close the bottles right after pouring, as the binder sets quickly on the rim of the neck.

Buying the whole set does away with the lengthy search for tones that go together. The shades were chosen by how they look next to each other on a finished machine, not just by the strips in a color chart. The set will therefore serve anyone who is building a robotic model for the first time and does not dare mix their own palette.