The shade of the dried-out grass of the Japanese army in a bottle holding 200 ml. A base coat intended for late Japanese ground and air equipment.
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Kare-kusa-iro means literally the color of withered grass, and the Japanese army used it as the lighter component of its late camouflage schemes. It appears on Type 97 and Type 95 tanks, on tractors and trucks and on the aircraft of the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force from the last two years of the war, where it was sprayed in irregular stripes and patches over a darker ground. The units defending the home islands in 1945 applied it in haste and roughly, so the edges of the patches tend to be spattered and uneven.
The tone carries a yellowish, slightly faded component, thanks to which it also works as a ground under subsequent coats of dust and dusty grass. Modelers also use it on scenes in open country, where vehicles are meant to merge with the dry growth, and on dioramas from the Pacific battlefields in the dry season.
The coating is water-thinnable, matte and flexible once cured. It is applied directly, with no thinning, and holds on plastic, on resin accessories and on photo-etched parts, so the whole assembly can be sprayed at once. A heavy coat would flood the fine cast detail, though, so two quick passes rather than one slow one.
A two-hundred-milliliter bottle will cover larger projects and a series of models on which the coloring is meant to be absolutely the same. Once dry, you can go on with oils, filters and pigments; under decals an intermediate gloss clear coat is recommended, so that the carrier film does not stay visible on the matte surface.
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