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I've found that Tamiya XF 73 JGSDF Green makes a reasonable match for FAA Dark Slate Grey and IJN XF 14 for the US shade of FAA Sky...XF 77 or 63 for the FAA Extra Dark Sea Grey Leslie Yes XF 24 is good un' too for EDSG

I've found that Tamiya XF 73 JGSDF Green makes a reasonable match for FAA Dark Slate Grey and IJN XF 14 for the US shade of FAA Sky...XF 77 or 63 for the FAA Extra Dark Sea Grey Leslie

I think you will find the Tamiya Acrylic Paint Retarder for spraying these paints to be useful too..i use it with the A20A thinners every time i spray..a little of it goes a long way tho'..just a few drops Leslie

They have wrecked some of the other WWII colours too...the 75 Dark Sea Grey which was a good match for RAF Ocean Grey is now some washed out light grey..H72 RAF Dark Earth is now a dull brown..there some other Aqueous colours you might want to check out as a match for the H58..H16 Yellow Green...H 26 Bright Green...H46 Emerald Green and H6 Green they all seem to a bright yellowish green Leslie

where abouts in Oz did you buy the 18ml Humbrol acrylics??

The recent H 400 series are apprently Geram Railraod colours..that's why they have German names on them..odd but there you are..in the Mr Color lacquer range tthere are now two RAF like colours..the original ones and the ones that came in the boxed sets are now availabe individually..ie C22 Dark Earth and Dark Earth BS381C/450 C369 ps Looks like the above reply clears up the colour change in the H range Leslie

Some of the Mr Color lacquer shades have changed too.. including the US Interior Green as above..not sure about the RAF ones..a local shop has a Mr Color rack i must have a look

The new formula defiantely drys better than the old one especially the gloss colours whichnow dry rock hard but the colour matches on a lot of them are now way off...shame as many of the their matches..FS..BS etc were very good..end of a era in a way..some of the colours have stayes the same such US Navy Light Gull Grey..RAF Dark Earth is now some sort of dull brown..hand paining the paint drags on the brush because it's drying so fast..reminds me of AK Real Color armour line..i've tried adding some Tamiya acrylic retarder which seems help Leslie

This footage of a Vickers Valiant lauching a Blue Steel missile at the 3.57 mark at Woomera might be of interest

UHU white tack is the one you want..deesn't leave any residue

Got it in one...doesn't spray on..it splatters on..that's just the way it is Les

The new Tamiya LP11 silver...Tuff Stuff

Some good news when it comes to Mr Hooby water based gloss acrylics drying times

I've had that problem as well..Vallejo Model Air seems to splatter on rather than mist on like Tamiya or Mr Hobby acrylics..

I have a old VHS copy of the '70's BBCTV series ''The secret War'' episode ''The Battle of the Beams'' towards the end there's a short vid of RAF Mosquito crew coming up behind a aircraft at night as and discussing whether it's a German night fighter and the pilot tells the navigator to ''Use the glasses'' to identify it..maybe it's one of those in this discussion Leslie