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  1. ok you have a lot of choice here. MRP paints makes a good meticalic paint then there is gunze super metallics which is good and my go to paint is the AK extreme metals which like the MRP paints are hard as nails once painted.

     

     

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  2. First try Canada there are rail way shops here that may have what you need. Badger has a selection of paints and if you can find it try finding Floquil. It not made anymore but that was a recent thing so some rail road shops may have some in stock. l have a floquil paint chart with paint chips not printed reproductions.You may have to resort to custom mix your paint as many model railroads will do as getting exact colour is a challenge in itself. As for thinning Humbrol if you are using their thinners toss it out. go with either Tamiya lacquer thinners or if you can get it Gunze laquer thinners with a self leveling additive which l use and just love it. it will thin just about anything with exception to your waist line.You could also try badger model flex. l have used that on some Model trains l painted for a guy and they work ok just with it do not waste time as it does dry quickly but has a good finish. Also l never go with call out colour. Think outside the box and physically look at a paint colour  as  it maybe for another rail road name but colour is colour and if it matches go with it.l have used rail road colours for aircraft cause the colour happened to be a perfect match. 

  3. 15 hours ago, hacker said:

    l read ( not know how accurate the article was ) said that the last red flag the F-22, F-35 and the F-15 combined in a combat scenario had an impressive 40 to 1 kill ratio ! Modern electronics in the Eagle along with being tied into the raptor and the lightning systems along with the AWACs how could you do any better?

     

     

    http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a25078/f-35-red-flag-war-games/

     

     

  4. l read ( not know how accurate the article was ) said that the last red flag the F-22, F-35 and the F-15 combined in a combat scenario had an impressive 40 to 1 kill ratio ! Modern electronics in the Eagle along with being tied into the raptor and the lightning systems along with the AWACs how could you do any better?

     

     

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     F9F-5 Panther of VF-781 flown by Lt. Royce Williams.

    He shot down 4 Mig-15s in one day but it was hushed up for 50 years

    Yah because they were not North Korean Migs but Russian! Red stars and all! One made it back to base only to crash killing the pilot. Seems the Russian pilot were a bit over confinant and decided to take on the lone American....big mistake that cost them!

     

     

  6. On Friday, March 10, 2017 at 4:25 PM, Mike said:

    Can't let a thread go by without re-posting my Dynavector Scimitar :wicked:

     

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    ...and to say that if anyone did a 1:48 Scimitar in injection styrene, I'd still build the :poop: out of it :wub:

     

    Nicely done Mike! Just something l like about the SimItar . Every country has it's iconic aircraft and everyone wants a model of it. 

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