here are the reference pics…
Its actually pretty close…this is a lighter tan colour.
The tamiya paint is named TS-46 Light Sand.
It just needs to be a little darker, overall…
Hence the heavy handedness, with smoke…but that got it dirty looking, not much darker on the base colour.
Oh well, nothings perfect…just accept it…
The other tans are more olive colour based…the sand Evo is not.
you could go ad, trying to colour match it…i’ll just accept it.
Changing to a darker primer such as black instead of grey can sometimes make a big difference depending on the Topcoat paint structure.
Might be worth doing a small sample piece and see if it gives you your desired outcome.
Hmmm have to try that…
I assume repco sells the stuff.?
Side by side, you’ll see the colour difference.
In isolation, you won’t.
Remember too you’re comparing it to a screen image… crank your graphics settings to make the master match the project and it’ll be perfect. 
Reminds me of a mate who came around to our house when colour TV first came in. We were watching our new colour TV and an ad for Panasonic TVs came on. My mate commented that we’d bought the wrong set… the colours looked better on the Panasonic. 
Repco has a sale one rust-oleum Camo colours… $10 a can.
Not sure if it’s still going but I had to click and collect my order.
Yeah, primer can be found in several different colours, including green, yellow, black, white, grey etc.
Repco may have it, if not any Paint Supplies shop should have a bigger variety and even possibly be able to mix a sample pot colour of your own choosing.
Pretty sure I saw flat black primer at Bunning’s the other day.
Yep… I did.
Works fine on plastic… but you’d be spraying it over Tamiya anyway.
To be fair, the first Colour Television was pretty horrific!
Obviously the Advertisement for the Panasonic TV was highly edited for the clearest picture quality available for broadcasted advertisment as possible … even though it was all equally just as bad as each other no matter what the brand!
Remember watching Aunty Jack on ABC when it faded from black and white into full colour, and almost burnt my eyeballs with the massive over saturation of the rainbow!
Rank Arena was our first, oh how I miss the wood paneling 
I remember the days before everyone broadcast in colour, only the odd one or two crappy shows weren’t black and white. The TV guide used to tag the colour transmissions so you could tune in.
FEIP was one… Free Entertainment In Parks. So we’d all be staring at a bunch of old boys in the Salvo band with tubas and trombones playing in a rotunda somewhere.
I’d whinge and ask why we had to sit around watching that shit, and the old man would tell me to shut up and enjoy looking at the green grass and shiny brass instruments.
