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I am trying to do a grey/tan scheme on my tanks, the issue is with the filter. MiG makes some great stuff, and they have a filter for Dunkelgrau and one for Afrika Korps, but its hard to apply a filter when i have clashing camo. What is the best way to determine which filter to use. The Arika Krops Desert yellow filter clashes with the grey paint and the Blue Grey filter clashes with the Tan camo.

Any thoughts?

You can use other colours as a filter. Just get whatever colour oil paint you need. You don't need to use the name brands. It depends what the filter is for too, are you trying to tone down the colour scheme? Make it duller, or make it look dirty?

Generally brown oil paint works well as an all round filter for any sort of armour.

Also, the filter is just there to tint the underlying colour by being very translucent, so don't worry too much about colours clashing.

Im using an airbrush to give a slightly duller look. Its for death korps, so its gonna be weathered.

I did some test and with the 2 colors and the blue grey turned the tan a greenish hue which I dont want.

The only thing I can think is that you haven't thinned your mix enough and too much colour is getting through. The ration needs to be about 9:1 thinner to paint. I don't have much experience applying filters with airbrush but I have sprayed tan over grey without affecting the colour in any negative way.

The only other thing I could suggest is trying an oil filter using brushes. This is my preferred method.