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Hi folks. Just bought, from Brengun Kits, the "Hawker Typhoon Mk.1b car-door early" 1/72 kit and i wonder which brand for paints has the most realistic tone of Dark green used as camouflage color on upper surfaces. I thought the enamel by Xtracolor "BS241 RAF Dark Green" code X-1 had a good match with the real color, but I read on the web that is better for post-war british planes. Thus, what is the most suitable to my kit? I am interested in enamels or acrylics paints to spray with my H&S airbru (Humbrol, Xtracolors, Tamiya, Gunze, Revell...etc...etc) Thanks in advance

I just bought a bottle (250ml) of W&N Galeria Matt Medium (I guess it's acrylic stuff, and looks dense and milky when i opened the bottle) for the final finishing on my military aircraft kits, and i wonder what's the best thinner for spraying the WN matt with my Evolution airbru. Anyone has tried this stuff for own kits. What thinner was used? Thanks in advance! http://www.winsornewton.com/uk/shop/oils-solvents-mediums-and-varnishes/acrylic-colour/mediums/galeria-matt-medium-8-45-us-fl-oz-250ml-pot-3040821

I am agree with mate Giorgio N. It’s a shame that no-one of the most important brands...like “mom” Airfix or RoG or asiatic Tamiya/Hasegawa/Academy/HobbyBoss have any projects for the next releasing and new tools 1/72 kits, about the charming MIRAGE III C fighter. Such an historic airplane! I dislike the last products, all in 1/72 scale, but indeed like short run molds...and very expensive. I dream to build a nice 1/72 Mirage III C [in israelian colors], for adding it to my stage.

Thanks Kirk for yours inquiring about my built. ) Indeed my kit i finished some months ago, and i posted here the dedicated Album, thanks to your help! Wish to reply every questions you wrote me: a) The MB seat is hand-made from spares/scratch.If you own a standard Mk.4 the work will be surely easier and faster.)) the nose wheel well is less deep than the principal one, in the real machine and it has at the top the cockpit floor. Not entirely, but the most. For this physical reason, i made a well for nose wheel as well as i did. [ as you can watch in the “Walking around” pics, whose Link i added in Album’s introducing list] c) The wheels are from my spares box. I do not remember which were the kits from. Sorry.. but they are right in shape/scale thnx to 1/72 scale plan drawings i own. d) Yep. The anhedral angle on wings is increased a lot respect to the Airfix kit as i found comparing the kit with my scale plan drawings. Hope to have been exhaustive towards your enquire. And forgive my horrible English... Cheers. Livio from Italy

You did a great work, mate and wrote an amazing Post. I congratulate you! Cheers.

https://www.scalemates.com/albums/img/5/4/3/258543-18840-31.jpg

Done! ...and seems it works! )) I am happy. Ty, Kirk!! Link: https://www.scalemates.com/profiles/mate.php?id=18840&p=albums&album=28762

https://www.scalemates.com/profiles/mate.php?id=18840&p=albums&album=28745

Hi mate Kirk and thanks so much for yours helping me)) The pictorial Album i posted with “in progress story” about my work, it’s hosted on Scalemate.com Now i would try to follow your advices for offering to BM members my Album [in question] Hope you could finally watch my pictures with that ancient Airfix kit. Cross your fingers for me! LOL

Oooppss....I am not able to post my [in progress] pictorial Album.. Help me!!

After a week spent for searching & watching the most pics[/size] I got from the Web about this machine...now I am starting [/size] the building of my new project:[/size] The first P.1127 prototype XP831, by AIRFIX.[/size] Very complicated task, ‘cause the kit “LOOKS LIKE” a Short Run, but it’s just an early sixties kit....[/size] Yep.It has nothing for interiors, for the cockpit [ it's just a poor seat ][/size] undergear and power supply turbine wells,[/size] and crude gear and wheels. Thus,[/size] in a moment of madness..I've decided to go for an all[/size] out effort on this ancient [AIRFIX released it in 1963] [/size] Hawker P.1127, 1/72 scale kit. [/size] Legend tells of rivets like barnacles, whimsical details [/size] and parts that lightly caress each other, rather [/size] than fitting like gloves. ))[/size] I shall fear nought though, for my arms to slay this beast [/size] will be plasticard, Milliputt, plastic rod and strut together... [/size] ..with the shield of beer drinks cans. [/size] Ref. Links: [/size] primeportal.net/hangar/mark_hayward/p.1127/ harrier.org.uk/history/history_farley.htm prototypes.free.fr/p1127/p1127-6.htm Hawker P.1127 | Hyperscale Youtube Video designer.home.xs4all.nl/models/harrier-p1127/p1127.htm

haha) LOL! Mate Stuck, i was just kidding. )) Your airbru is made by a great german brand and i am glad you are loving yours. It’s an amazing tool. ...btw, if i consider Infinity a sexy baby....why not ?!?

Forgot. I spent circa 116 pounds for my Krome. I should have paid 195 GBP for a H&S Infinity ‘two in one’ ...to the same italian dealer.

I have Badger “Krome" and H&S "Evolution 2 in 1” airbrushes. They are both amazing and I am absolutely satisfied with them. Surely, the H&S Infinity is a cool and sexy airbru, but in Italy she has a price twice that the one I spent for my Krome, and my Badger makes the same things i can do with the Infinity. I can justify that her beauty is noteworthy, but i cannot justify that huge cost for this. I am interested to have a tool who could do well and fine what i wish, also if it is not so pretty esthetically like the german red airbru. I have my two babies in working perfectly since 2 years, and the Krome is my favorite, despite it's true that she is a bit fiddly [ respect to my H&S Evolution ] during cleaning operations; but the feeling she offers to me, its fantastic balance and solidity without being too much heavy, its range of control, that smooth trigger, that precise needle limiter when i paint, for example, wave mirror camouflage on a german fighter 1/72 kit....is matchless!

In the instructions sheet by Hobby Boss [1/72 chinese kit #87246] for Rafale C, they suggested the FS 36440 grey as overall camouflage for the french “chasseur”. I think that grey ( Gunze Sangyo H-315) is too much LIGHT grey, for the C version of Rafale C. I watched a lot of pics by the Web....and I remain with my opinion. I would like to replace it with the more suitable FS 36270 ( acrylic Gunze H-306) but...I am waiting for a comment by more expert modellers, about this issue. Thanks in advance.