Eight acrylic shades for British aircraft used in South East Asia in the years 1942 to 1945. Camouflage, sea grays and white for recognition stripes.
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The war in South East Asia was fought in conditions British equipment was not built for: damp, the monsoon, dust and airfields trodden out in the jungle. Spitfires, Hurricanes, Beaufighters and later Thunderbolts flew there in a finish that combined European camouflage tones with features that set Allied machines apart from Japanese ones. The most conspicuous of them were the broad light stripes on the wings and tail.
The set gives eight shades for this whole area. Beside dark brown and dark green it holds Ocean Grey and Medium Sea Grey from the day fighter specification, the Sky tone, light blue for the undersurfaces, black and signal white. It is exactly the last two colors that are the key ones for this theater, because the recognition stripes were applied in sharp contrast and their width and placing differed from squadron to squadron.
Aircraft in this area tended to be worn, and models will take that. It pays to work with an uneven shade on the upper surfaces, with faded places over the tanks and with wear at the wing root. The stripes are most easily done with masking tape applied once the camouflage has dried, and the white needs a light undercoat. The paints are thinned with water, and always only after stirring when going into an airbrush.
The saturation of the dark green can also be deliberately broken with a drop of a lighter tone added to the last coat, which captures the washed-out surfaces of machines after months in the tropics. The package contains only bottles of paint, no model, decals or masking tape.
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