Four paints of the dark European scheme of the 1980s, three greens and one ash gray. Intended for American attack, transport and training machines.
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At the turn of the 1970s and 1980s, American aircraft intended for combat over Europe received a dark scheme of three greens and one gray. Because of its irregular large patches it came to be called the lizard scheme. It was worn by attack aircraft for close support, by transport and tactical aircraft and by a number of National Guard machines, on some types right up to the mid-1990s.
The package brings together all four positions of this scheme: forest green, dark green, subdued dark green and ash gray. The differences between the greens are small on purpose, because the finish was meant to work against the ground seen from above, not against the sky. That is exactly why the scheme only looks convincing on a model when the shades match precisely.
A building tip: on the real machines the edges of the patches were soft but at the same time narrow. They are best done freehand at low pressure and with a nozzle of around 0.2 mm. Masking with paper gives a result that is too sharp and the characteristic lizard impression is lost; too much overspray, on the other hand, blurs the scheme into a uniform dark area.
Four 17 ml bottles will cover several models in 1:72 scale or one large transport machine. The paints belong to a lacquer range; once dry they resist washes based on mineral spirits and will take later edge polishing and surface chipping.
Fading is part of finishing the job. Dark green areas fade strongly, and on machines that stood outdoors the difference between a freshly resprayed section and the rest of the airframe becomes the main carrier of the impression of wear.
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