WW2 italian Air Force paint set vol.1

Italian aircraft of the Second World War in six shades

The palette aims at the machines of the Regia Aeronautica and especially at the units of the Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana, which from the autumn of 1943 flew alongside the Luftwaffe. It was precisely there that two completely different painting traditions met, and this box covers both at once.

The home-grown trio consists of the dark olive Verde Oliva Scuro 2, the hazelnut light Nocciola Chiaro 4 and the bright gray-blue Grigio Azzurro Chiaro 1. The first two belong on the upper surfaces, the third shade covers the underside of the fuselage and the wings. The dark olive was moreover sprayed as irregular blotches over a lighter base.

The second half of the contents is German: gray-green RLM 74 and gray-violet RLM 75 on top, light blue RLM 76 below. That is how a number of machines looked that had passed through the repair shops of the allied Luftwaffe.

• Six bottles of water-thinnable acrylic from the Orange Line range
• Verde Oliva Scuro 2 matches the upper surfaces of Fiat G.55 fighters
• Nocciola Chiaro 4 serves as the base of the upper surfaces of Italian-built aircraft
• Grigio Azzurro Chiaro 1 is the standard for the lower surfaces
• The RLM trio covers the complete mid-war German scheme

From a single box you can therefore build both an aircraft in a fully Italian coat and a machine in German camouflage with Italian national insignia. The formula is prepared for the airbrush and dries to a matte finish; the pigment settles at the bottom, so the bottle has to be shaken well before the cup is filled.