How do I get THIS color red?...

[Lt. Z0mBe]

Wise and Sagely Scale Modelers,

I am building a subject I want to be a kind of "rusty," sci-fi, red. I want to get something close the shade of red in the link below:

http://www.hlj.com/product/BAN11649

I've been experimenting, and I seem to either get a pink, an orange, or stop sign red.

Your thoughts on this would be appreciated. Thanks in advance for you advice.

Z0mBe

[Tony Agustin]

Well the red in the photo does look like a combination of a lot of red, a drop or two of yellow and a teensy bit of white to lighten it up a notch.

Or.....use Testors Rust with a drop or two of white in it. I picked Testors because it's a little more on the reddish side.

[Vince Hoffmann]

A spot of blue will tone your stop sign red down a to the shade you want.
A touch of black would grey it a bit, but would give you a different color than the blue would.

[karim]

To take a color and reduce it's intensity (different from brightness), you need to add a little bit of its compliment. If you add too much, you get a dirty grey-brown (because of slight impurities in the pigments used in most paints). The Compliment is the color opposite on the color-wheel.

In this case, Red -> Cyan, so Vince is pretty much right.

You may be thinking that Green is opposite Red on the color-wheel, but the color-wheel that they taught you in grade-school is all wrong.

The primary colors are Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow. You get Red by mixing Magenta & Yellow. (don't try this at home though: Due to the difficulty of achieving a pure Magenta pigment, most magenta paints are not-quite magenta, making attempting to mix Red an exercise in futility.)

[TER-OR]

Here's how I'd do it.

Start with Hull Red from Tamiya. Rust is close, from Gunze and Testors.

Ink in the panel lines.

Darken Hull Red with black and maybe dark brown, paint along all the recesses and panel lines.

Use a muted regular red to paint inside all the panels and on high areas. This will make it more definitely red.

Use hull red again to tone everything down and blend the colors together.

[Lt. Z0mBe]

I knew that color wheel would come in handy. I've got one, but being the genius I am, I forgot I had it.

Thanks, everyone.

Z0mBe

[Mark Yungblut]

Another possibility would be to try using Floquil or Scale Coat Caboose red. Or Mix that red 3 to 1 with Boxcar red.

[Digger1]

Looks like Krylon "Red Oxide" to me.

Try also "Terra Cotta" available at craft stores or Humbrol "Brick Red".

[Slave1]

I think it looks like the Testors Model Master Oxide Red