Has anyone of you built an RAF aircraft and used this color? To me it looks almost like a metallic paint… not sure I want to use in. In fact I almost feel like it is missing the white or something. First it looks way to blue, not pale enough. when I stirred it it came out like one of their transparent colors from the jar… (ok almost that way)
I just don’t want to mess up my build with it…
Second in case I don’t use it (I already searched a few paint coversion sites and couldn’t find a mix) any of yall know a good close substitute for RAF Sky Grey, or a close match? On the IPMS Stockholm site it looks close to aircraft gray, maybe a little lighter…
I am doing a Grumman Martlet (F4F Wildcat in UK clothing) and when they first ones were delivered they had the closest approximations the US plants had for the colors (Dupont colors it seems) and while the decal set calls for sky blue, the references differ between sky, sky blue and sky gray. So I am thinking I can use any of these 3… Problem is the only hobby shop within range only carries MM paints in enamel and there is no Sky Grey on the MM website. I hate to pay 5 dollars shipping for 3 dollars worth of paint!
Your help will be appreciated!
I think its the color i’m doing my phantom , Its called flint grey , its a greenish, blue grey ,
the FS number is FS15414 , I think thats the color your talking about , but not to sure ,
its painted on the right hand side phantom on the bottom of my signature
Sean, thats closer to the sky which is one of the options…
From 1935 to 1939 the FAA used Sky Grey on the undersides, and somewhere is June 1940 they switched to Sky which is the greenish color you are talking about… but there were some done in Sky Blue according to a few resources in the net, with a port black wing…
I guess I will do it in sky and save the torture, it’s the color the FAA website listed for 804 SQN as well on the Battle of Britian historical society page as well…
oh well, still interested to hear what people say about Tamiya’s Sky Blue… to me it is not the sky blue I know…
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as I have a bottle of Vallejo sky I should have skipped the torture I should have wrote, it wqas just a very interesting scheme on the Aeromaster sheet…
Ah , think i know the color , i’ll just check an old airfix book
Tom, I’m only guessing, but I think the RAF colour you want is called Azure. According to the instructions with the Tamiya Spitfire Vb this colour is mixed as follows.
XF-16 Flat Aluminium (2 parts)
XF-2 White (10 parts)
XF-18 Medium Blue (5 parts)
So, yes it does have a slight metallic sheen.
Now, bear in mind that will be to match the actual RAF colour. The substitute colour the US supplied the Wildcats in because they didn’t have the Azure colour, was probably (I’m guessing) ANA 602 Light Grey for the underside. According toTamiya’s Wildcat instructions you can mix this as follows:
XF-19 Sky Grey (2 parts)
XF-2 Flat White (1 part)
Like I said I am guessing here but I think ANA 602 is the logical choice. Hope this helps.
Cheers …Snowy
I have just finished a spit mkII painted with Tamiya xf21
This is the correct sky type s paint for early war RAF and FAA aircraft right up to the end of Korea.
Valejo Model air 009 - duck egg green is the vallejo equiv.
I ended up going with the Sky from Vallejo’s “Colors of Eagles” series… it’s the duck egg green you are talking about… problem was there were several different reliable sources saying different things… ends up I went with sky because the ones coming in light gray were the ones ordered by Great Britain, the ones of 804 squadron came mostly from an order unable to be delivered to the French due to the invasion by Germany… in June of 1940 the scheme changed from Sky Grey to Sky (duck egg green) so I hypothesized the ones diverted from the French would be painted in the reg type scheme for the day b the RAF itself… the others came from US factories painted that way…
Also a pic at the Fleet Air Arm research site helped me too… it showed a Martlet of 804 Sqn in 1940 in the sky undersides… which backed up my thought on it… I might redo one with the light grey/black half and half scheme as I like the looks of it…
hmm the Azure is a Mediterranean scheme… sky blue is a bit more white than it… but good when I do my 1/24 Mk. V. I have in the pile… not sure which theatere I will paint it for but might do one for that one since I already have the paint…