NASA Blue

 There was a question asked about the color that NASA uses for all it's vehicles - 

Doing a little search, the majority of the modelers that responded to the question says that Mig Colors 229 is the best match.

New Aquisitions

Been away for a while - health problems, but I'm back for now.
Just because I'm not building, doesn't mean I'm not buying. Haha  First two kits are from the Classic Horror category and from Gillman Productions. One is Fredric March';s version of Mr. Hyde. The next is Boris Karloff playing Ardeth Bay in The Mummy. I must apologize in advance for the lousy pics this time around. I'll have it fixed for next time -- 

I saw these next figures a while ago, and instantly was drawn to them. They are from Forge World and are part of the Warhammer 40K.  To me they looked like an alternate world or a sci-fi version of WW1 warriors. I picked up three horsemen, and a command crew. I little dio will be in the works. There are lots of little parts so I tried to take the pic thru the package. I think you get the idea of how it looks ---

For the next ones I jump to the sci-fi realm. The first one is from the show Farscape. It's the ship Crighton was in when he got sucked into the worm hole by Black Sun Models - 

Next is the Gaiderol Class ship from the Japanese show Yamato 2199. They are small kits, but there a lot of them and each has a unique design. I got this one from the Starship Modeler Store -- 

Now I jump to Real Space and have two busts from the Soviet space Program by the Czech Co., 2dreamers.  The first is Yuri Gagarin, and the other is Alexi Leonov --

Lastly are some new primers. Frequenting the modeling videos on You Tube, a number of the guys have been raving about Badger's Stynylrez primers, so I thought I'd give them a shot. The name indicates they they will work on styrene, vinyl and resin, so I'm hoping to have the same good results that I've seen on the vids. I picked up my set on Amazon -

 Whew, that was a long entry. Thanks if you've made it all the way to the end. Thanks for looking.

Translating a Japanese Paint Guide Solved

Well, that was quick. I posted my question on the SSM forum, and in a matter of hours I had my answer:

White numbers in black boxes are Gunze Mr. Color Lacquers:
http://www.ipmsstockholm.org/colorcharts/stuff_eng_colorcharts_mrcolor_map.htm

Black numbers in white boxes are the aqueous acrylics:
http://www.ipmsstockholm.org/colorcharts/stuff_eng_colorcharts_gunze_map.htm

Simple as that. Now transposing the Gunze colors to my Vallejo was a bit more difficult. For one, Vallejo had an excellent online guide that matched their paint up with 5 or 6 others including the Federal Standard ~ gone.  
Luckily I had it printed out and was just a matter of remembering where I put it.
Some colors ended up being easy - White is white and silver is silver. But some were a little more difficult, including the Gunze color number not being in either the Model Color (VMC) or Air Color (VAC) chart.  So I had to convert the Gunze code to FS code and then see if the FS code matched with VMC or VAC. After an hour of which should have taken 5 minutes, I had success. The big plus was that I had all the colors I need! Thanks for looking.

Translating a Japanese Paint Guide

Anyone?