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G'day all,

I'm planning on painting up some Lizardmen with my new airbrush and thought it'd be a good opportunity to try out some Vallejo Model Air colours. No one near by sells them, so I'll have to buy them online, which makes it hard to figure out exactly which colours would work best.

The colour scheme I'm going for is similar to this one:
http://taleofpainters.blogspot.com.au/2013/08/showcase-lizardmen-troglodon.html

I want to use a similar scheme on my Saurus. So can anyone familiar with the Vallejo Model Air range give an idea of what colours I'd need to achieve that? I'm thinking an off-white for the belly followed by a brownish green and then a dark green and then maybe pure black for the uppermost parts.

So I'm thinking:
White undercoat
Duck Egg Green (belly)
Camouflage Light Green (skin)
Camouflage Dark Green (upper areas of scales)

Or maybe I should shift it one and get Camo Green (the medium one) and then Black Green or maybe US Dark Green for the dark areas? I'm not really sure, it's really hard to tell from the online colour swatches.

Anyone familiar with the range able to give some advice?

I wouldn't be adverse to getting some Minitaire paints from Badger either.

P.S. I know I could mix the paints myself, I could even mix them from my existing citadel and P3 paints... I just want to try out the Vallejo Air or Minitaire lines of paint and since I want to use this scheme for a large number of models, want something I can just throw straight in the airbrush without having to mix).

It looks like Black on top and White on the bottom. And the mid range looks something like: Cayman (Game Color) or Russian (Surface Primer) green (sorry don't know the equivalencies in "Air"), Dark Green, Tank Ocre. As for the ocre he may have used "Hemp" or something similar. Keep in mind Vallejo has a great range of greens, olives and ochres. So you could probably just build your own scheme up from the great variety they have.

Not to sound snarky or smartalleck like. but why not ask him in the comments of his blog?

Looking at the comments it seems people have asked that and not gotten a response.

I guess I'm not really interested in EXACTLY what paints he used so much as what VMA or Minitaire paints that are in the ballpark of those colours. If somewhere near me sold them, I'd just look at the colour in the pots and guess what is close, but it's really hard to discern the true colours of VMA paints from the online colour swatches (especially the darker colours) and I haven't found an online colour chart that is reliable and contains VMA and/or Minitaire (found one with VMA... but apparently "Blazing Orange" Citadel equates to "Blue" VMA on that chart, so I don't really trust it unless VMA have a really odd naming scheme ).

Be wary of equivalency charts. Those charts state that, for example, Vallejo Cayman Green is the same as Citadel Castellan Green, but the difference is noticable.

I would say Model Air Russian Green over black and white primer. Bone or white with a drop of duck egg on the belly.