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Would you be able to provide a list of the way these have changed over time.  For example, I have quite a few ACJ18s labelled Interior Olive Green, one labelled Mitsubishi Interior Green, the latest one to arrive is labelled Nakajima Amber Grey (Ameiro). I assume the paint inside is the same but Japanese colours are hard enough without the changing names. I'm sure the latest names are more accurate but it gets confusing

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Hi,

 

The names were changed with guidance from Nick Millman. The old names were at best misleading and at worst preventing sales because there was little way of tying up any half-way decent sources of references with the old names or, if one did, it was more likely than not that a drastically wrong conclusion would be reached. Some colours were simply wrong or non-typical of real colours so we dropped them.

 

The new names below should be much simpler for the user to reconcile with good quality resources such as Nick's "Aviation of Japan" blog and j-aircraft.com. Hope this helps!

 

Code WEM-era Colourcoats Title New Colourcoats Title Comment
ACJ01 IJNAF Black-Green IJN D1 Deep Green Black  
ACJ02 Nakajima Navy Grey N/A Discontinued
ACJ03 Nakajima Navy Green IJN D2 Green Black / IJA #27 Blue Green  
ACJ04 Nakajima Interior Grey-Green IJN Interior Buff Green  
ACJ05 Nakajima Army Green IJA #21 Midori iro  
ACJ06 Mitsubishi Navy Green N/A Discontinued
ACJ07 Mitsubishi Navy Grey Mitsubishi Navy Grey  
ACJ08 Mitsubishi Cowl Blue-Black Mitsubishi Cowl Blue-Black  
ACJ09 Kawasaki Army Green IJA #7 Variant  
ACJ10 Kawanishi Green N/A Discontinued
ACJ11 Overall Light Grey N/A Discontinued
ACJ12 Undersurface Grey-Green IJA #1 Hai ryoku shoku  
ACJ13 Red-Brown Primer IJN H2 early war camo brown  
ACJ14 Earth Brown IJA #33 Kaki iro  
ACJ15 Aotake N/A Discontinued
ACJ16 Mitsubishi Zero Grey-Green Mitsubishi Zero Grey-Green Colour changed
ACJ17 Nakajima Amber Grey (Ame-iro) Nakajima Amber Grey (Ame-iro) Colour changed
ACJ18 Mitsubishi Interior Green IJN Interior Olive Green  
ACJ19 ID Yellow ID Yellow  
ACJ20 Hinomaru Red Hinomaru Red  
ACJ21 IJNAF/IJAAF Trainer Yellow-Orange IJNAF/IJAAF Trainer Yellow-Orange  
ACJ22 N/A IJAAF #7 Ohryoku nana go shoku New
ACJ23 N/A Propeller Brown New
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