Polish Navy / Air Force TS-11 Paint Set

The Iskra over the Baltic

The Polish jet trainer served for decades and its naval version flew in two forms: a trainer-reconnaissance one and a modification for electronic reconnaissance. It is precisely their finishes that the set covers, from the dark upper surface to the light undersides, and it adds the shade used on the interior of the cockpit as well.

An overview of the colors

• Night Black to FS 37038 for the upper surfaces of both naval versions
• Mod Eagle Grey to FS 36176 in the same scheme
• Light Ghost Grey to FS 36375 for the upper and the lower surfaces according to the version
• A dark green tone to FS 34095 known from Polish helicopters, here on the upper surfaces of the trainer-reconnaissance version
• Sky Blue to FS 35466 for the undersurfaces of the same version
• Dark Ghost Grey to FS 36320 as the standard color of the cockpit interior

How to work with it

The cockpit is best sprayed before the fuselage is glued together, because once it is closed you will not get to it. With a two-seat cockpit it pays to shade the color: the frames somewhat darker, the seats and the instrument panel with a more pronounced wash, so that the detail does not disappear in the deep space.

A dark upper surface easily swallows the panel lines, so it helps to accentuate them in advance with a thin darker coat and only then spray the base color over them. The contrast between the black and the light undersurface gray tends to be hard on a model, and lightening the centers of the areas slightly will soften it. The colors are supplied on their own; the model and the decals are not included.