A couple of years ago I brushed out some proprietary Sky model paints. I’ve been meaning to do a more comprehensive brush-out ever since, and this week I finally got enough time to have a go. I trawled the deepest recesses of my paint store and came up with a fair selection of current and older “Skys”, or colours recommended as Sky. I brushed out samples onto white card and compared them to the colour chip in the RAF Museum book and a current copy of BS381c. The shade of Sky in the RAFM book is