The Alclad II Enamel line concentrates on the shades aircraft modellers actually run out of: cockpit greys and greens, undersurface tones, British and Soviet interior colours and the dark greys used on armour. Most bottles carry an FS code, so a shade can be matched straight from a monograph or a painting diagram with nothing left to guesswork.
Being solvent-borne, these paints dry slower and level flatter than acrylics, which suits brushwork inside a cockpit as much as thin airbrush passes over a fuselage. Notes on priming, thinning and finishing follow the product list.
The shade list tells you where the range points: cockpit interiors, airframe camouflage and the handful of colours that recur on model after model. If you build aircraft, a bottle you will finish is worth more than an exotic one-off tone. The resin binder also means a slower, smoother film than acrylic gives, which shows on the long flat panels of a fuselage.
Enamel grips clean styrene well, but an even coat from surfacers and primers shows up an unsanded seam while it can still be fixed. On resin and photo-etched parts a primer is not optional at all.
Interior shades go on before the halves are glued, because after that the cockpit is out of reach. Use fine model paint brushes for instrument detail and airbrush equipment for the side walls and floor.
Brushing needs almost no thinning; spraying needs the paint taken down until it runs freely off the stirrer. Matching solvents are in thinners and cleaners. Flush the gun straight away, because cured enamel comes out only mechanically.
Keep the order in mind while planning a build: primer, interior, exterior colour, gloss, decals, wash, matt. Enamel tolerates that sequence well, provided each stage is allowed to cure rather than merely to feel dry.
Other solvent-borne series and bottle sizes are listed one level up in enamel model paints, with the rest of the model paints section beside them. The shades here were mixed with aircraft model kits in mind, so the next bottle and the next kit tend to arrive together.
