Paint brand and color for Soviet interior turquoise?

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I’ll be starting a 1/72 MiG-23UB soon, and I’m having a strangely difficult time finding a paint bottle that I can buy with the Soviet interior turquoise – preferably acrylic.

A few years ago, I built a Yak-38, and had some paint that was a good approximation, but I may have lost it in a move.

So, any recommendations?

Thanks!

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https://galactictoys.com/products/ak-interactive-real-color-russian-cockpit-torquise-10ml-acrylic-hobby-paint-bottle

If you like Tamiya you will like this stuff,low odor even if thinned with LT

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Fantastic! Thank you!

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Here’s another possibility for you. Its a lacquer, but it cures so quickly so any odor from it is usually gone in a few seconds. It is airbrush-ready right out of the bottle too.

https://mrpaint.sk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=51&search=turquoise

Sprue Brothers sells the brand.

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Is this cockpit turquoise color universal? Will it work for cockpits, wheel wells and weapons bays on a MiG-29? Ukrainian aircraft?

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Just to make things harder the MiG 29 has a different blue green interior color from other Russian jets.Here’s a cockpit I built for an RC MiG 29. It was a custom mix of Tamiya acrylics.

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Thanks, John. I reckon the AK turquoise will have to do. Anyway, the build is 1/48 scale.

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A friend in the local club has visited the air bases of several former Warsaw pact countries on business and got some behind the scene tours of the flight lines and museums. He told us during one presentation that the sapphire color was a level of classification indicator. Fighter/interceptor cockpits would be colored thus and areas which were less classified were colored otherwise; as in gray for troop/cargo area in Hinds, etc. The conscripts could not be trusted to be able to read, but could tell their colors.

Take with as large a grain of salt as you wish

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Negative, Frank. There were all kinds of variations on the turquoise color in cockpits, especially with the MiG-29. Some MiG-29s even had a grey cockpit.

There were some that had the greener turquoise color like the MRP-001 I linked above.

Then there were MiG-29s with a bluer turquoise like Jeaton showed. MRP has that also, ready to go. Its what I used on the gear bays and intakes on my Ukrainian digital camo Su-25M1 project. Did a visual color match on that using photos I have. It was traditionally used on the older MiG aircraft like the 15 and 17.

Russian Cockpit Blue

https://mrpaint.sk/index.php?route=product/product&keyword=277&product_id=372

Then there was the grey color some of them have.

Cockpit Light Grey (MiG-29 Russian AF)
https://mrpaint.sk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=386&search=291

For gear bays and other interior items, they had this color on a lot of them

Light Gray Blue

https://mrpaint.sk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=98&search=049

Heh…and as if that isn’t confusing enough, Sukhoi aircraft had yet another Blue Grey color.

https://mrpaint.sk/index.php?route=product/product&keyword=195&product_id=274

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I believe the cockpit turquoise was developed by Soviet psychologists to maximize concentration while reducing stress on the flight crew. I don’t think the cargo areas, wheel wells, or equipment compartments were painted in this color.

For fighters, there was a vertical white stripe painted down the center of the instrument panel that was intended to help the pilot in case he got disoriented. Not sure if the transports or bombers had this. (If one of those planes were upside down, the flight crew would have a LOT to be worried about!)

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Hoo boy. I have the Academy MiG-29A, but I’m holding out for the GWH MiG-29 kit. Then I’ll follow what the instructions indicate.

Now back to your regularly scheduled thread already in progress.