I've gotten several inquiries regarding the translation of japanese painting instructions and colors.

First off I'll list links to sites who I "borrowed" this information from. . .

• Nevolution's guide, includes katakana chart and the two links below.

Ok - Basically, I just took screen shots of the Gunze material list from the above link (I have since removed it, it went kerput). All you gotta do is match up the katana with the english and you'll be able to figure out what colors are to be used to complete your model. Each screen shot is around 25kb in size and opens in the same window, click away:

The hobby shops in my area carry the Gunze Sangyo Aqueous Hobby Color brand. This is the brand I generally use on my kits. The screen shots for the Aqueous Hobby Color line are in 6 thru 9. I'm guessing Hobby Color is denoted by the H in front of each numeral...?

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