Color Matching Plastic Soldier Company (PSC) Spraypaints
As you start printing more and more vehicles, you’ll look for ways to speed up your workflow, especially when it comes to painting the basics. Generally speaking I prime all of my models with rust-oleum automotive filler primer to help hide the printing lines with FDM printing. Next I’ve taken to using the Plastic Solider Company (PSC) range of Army and Tank spray paints to base coat my vehicles and miniatures before a dip or a wash (using Vallejo’s dipping immersion washes in either Sepia or Black). I’ll then sponge on highlights with the matching Vallejo paint before a quick drybrush of a highlight color (often Vallejo Iraqi Sand). To do this, you need to know what paint matches with each PSC primer can. Here are the best matches I can get:
| PSC War Spray | PSC Product Code | Vallejo Paint | Vallejo Number |
| Tank Warspray Mid-Late War German Dunkelgelb | SP001 | Middlestone | 882 |
| Tank Warspray Early War German Panzer Grey | SP002 | German Grey | 995 |
| Tank Warspray Russian | SP003 | Russian Green | 894 |
| Tank Warspray British | SP004 | Russian Uniform | 924 |
| Tank Warspray United States | SP005 | Violet Brown/Olive Drab | 887 |
| Infantry Spray German Field Grey | SP006 | Field Grey | 830 |
| Infantry Spray Russian Uniform | SP007 | Russian Uniform | 924 |
| Infantry Spray British Khaki | SP008 | English Uniform | 921 |
| Infantry Spray US Olive Drab | SP009 | US Field Drab | 873 |
Vallejo paint available from your FLGS, or of course, Amazon.
Interestingly PSC Tank British and PSC Infantry Russian Uniform both match Vallejo Russian Uniform 924, so I probably could have saved some money and only purchased one can for both armies! One thing to be aware of with the PSC paints, is while they are great paints, and match well with the Vallejo bottles, the cans do seem to be fragile, with one of mine ending up with a hole on the seam overnight, leaking out in a massive bubble over a few days straight after I purchased it. So be careful with how you store them, and give them a quick double check in the store before purchase. I feel that these are better quality paints than the army painter sprays, as they don’t leave the powdery residue that you can some times end up with these.
Looking for a more complete conversion guide for paints, check out our updated spreadsheet below: