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Really daft question time.....🤪 Has anyone ever used standard household paint, adequately thinned of course, to paint a model???? The question is based on the following. I have had a tester pot made up from one of our local paint suppliers of PRU Blue ,matched to BS381c:636 according to their colour matching profiles on their machines which have the whole BS381 scheme in the database... Now the pot is more than enough to paint out a small 10cmx10cm square on the wall to see what it would look like in comparison to other colours that we already have. So I'm left with the majority of the tin (250ml)...... I'm aware that modern house paint is a latex based acrylic and so would need to be thinned accordingly, and doing a quick and dirty test using Vallejo thinners and UMP thinners at 1.5:1 (thinner to paint) they seem to thin and spray really nicely. No stringy bits in the paint, no residue in the airbrush (used an old one for the test just in case) and cleaned up ok as well using UMP airbrush cleaner. At £5.85 cost wise it's going to be a very cost effective method of getting a very long term supply of PRU Blue. it does dry very matt, but as I would use a gloss varnish over the top for subsequent layers etc, that doesnt really bother me. Any thoughts? Or anyone else have experience of having used left over paint in this way? (I have seen others using white paint to pour into intakes, so yes that is familiar, but I'm talking about thinning and spraying the paint.)
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A visit to my LMS revealed a "British production" pot of Humbrol 78 Cockpit Grey Green. Curious as ever, I bought one to see what this incarnation of the colour looked like. The touchstone, as always, is the RAF Museum colour chip set and compared to this the new Humbrol paint is a bit too dark and green: It actually looks a bit olive. I couldn't identify any useful visual matches against the standards I had to hand, BS381, RAL, FS595 and BS4800. Against my most up to date acrylic pot, new style but marked "Made in China", the difference is marked: The acrylic is a bit too dark compared to the RAFM chip but doesn't seem to have as much yellow in it. It's probably useful for most requirements, even if you might want to add a touch of light grey: It's a bit lighted in real life than it looks here. Compared to my BS381c 283 the acrylic is close: It probably falls around *4226 and *4227 in FS595. Curious! I'll have a rake through the paint box and see what else I have that purports to match this colour. John
