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That's interesting. I remember someone doing a Lancaster some years ago, not sure if it was on this forum or not but they added a hint of red to the black to stop it being 'black'. You couldn't see the red as such but it made it more 'realistic' in scale. I think it was that build that started me thinking about colour more as, at the time, I would never have thought of doing that.\ said:I read somewhere that the problem with mixing colours to lighten or darken them is that the added colour is not what you think it is. For example, there probably is no practicable pigment that is truly black (although soot comes to mind). The underside of a Lancaster bomber was often painted black but in fact it can look very very slightly dark blue. This might be because the pigment used is actually a very dark blue. This might cause a black which is lightened with white to end up distinctly bluish.
I am not expert in this and the above might be rubbish in detail, but the basic idea is worth thinking about.
I still like to have a good idea of a base, or starting point, colour as in my question about British Infantry webbing in a different thread. Once I am happy that the start point is about right, the fun comes in shading and highlighting it.