A set of four shades of 17 ml each for the earliest machines of the Israeli Air Force of 1948, built around the Czechoslovak standard MNO 2036 and three German RAL shades.
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The key to these four shades lies in the first of them. The designation MNO 2036 Smalt Khaki Avion is a standard of the Czechoslovak Ministry of National Defense, and it is not here by accident: the very first combat aircraft the state of Israel obtained in 1948 came from Czechoslovakia. They were the Avia S-199, a postwar build of the Messerschmitt Bf 109 airframe with a Junkers Jumo 211 bomber engine, a combination that earned the machine a reputation among pilots as a poor aircraft. The machines flew off in whatever equipment and whatever finish happened to be at hand.
The three RAL shades come from German wartime standards. That is the second half of the same story: in central Europe, painting went on for years after the war from whatever stocks were left, and the same shades therefore turned up over the Negev a few weeks later.
Subject number one is the Avia S-199 in Israeli markings, but the use is wider. Anyone building Czechoslovak postwar aircraft will reach for the same bottles, because they are the same standardized shades. The 17 ml in each bottle is enough for several models in the smaller scales.
Before work, stir the contents of the bottle thoroughly right down to the pigment settled at the bottom. With shades derived from standards of the day the pigment tends to be dense, and paint that has not been stirred through comes out noticeably lighter than the standard specifies.
Naši poradci a znalci sortimentu jsou připraveni odpovídat na Vaše dotazy (Po–Pá, 8–18 hod).
Zeptejte se na co potřebujete, odpovíme co nejdříve.
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