Supermarine Spitfire XIX - Which Tamiya Colour ?

[Tiger331]

Hi Folks,

OK…..Here's the problem. I'm currently residing in Estonia, with no access to my airbrush and/or standard acrylic paints due to the limitations of our apartment. The only spray type paints I can purchase and use locally are those in the Tamiya AS and TS paint range so the question is, does anyone know or could recommend the best blue shade to use on a Post War Spitfire XIX sporting the overall PRU Blue scheme ?.

Many thanks

Mark

[Troy Smith]

Hi Mark

i don't know that any Tamiya colour is any sort of match for PRU Blue (hopefully someone will correct me)

but have you checked to see if there are any car touch up aerosols about, as you might find an acceptable match in one of those?

a bit of thinking.....and a quick look here

http://scalemodeldb.com/paintcharts/tamiya

I note that Tamiya do Tamiya 86519, AS19, Spray can Matt

Intermediate Blue (U.S. Navy)

which looks to be the only 'in the ballpark' paint from the options you specify..

HTH

T

[Tiger331]

Hi Troy,

I had a look at the link you provided…..They only appear to show the AS paint range in therein lies a problem. There is only one shade in that range that comes anywhere close to PRU Blue and that is AS19, as you quote. The official Tamiya website also shows the alternative TS spray paint range and this has at least four colours that could be close. TS10 is described as French Blue - probably too light, TS15 Blue - which looks too dark, TS44 Brilliant Blue and what appears to be the closest match TS57 Blue Violet. Ironically the one that looks to be the closest of all (taking into account the variances of screen shots, printed vs. actual shades etc) is a metallic shade which will be totally unsuitable.

The search continues….

Mark

[JasonC]

FWIW, AS-19 is the colour that Tamiya specify for the PR scheme in the instructions for their 1/48 Mosquito. Even there however, they admit it is an approximation.

J.