Exciting new Colourcoats releases!

To make it therefore requires manual trial and error of pigment colours and quantities which requires many years experience in colour matching to achieve - something our factory most certainly has.

The finished product - Colourcoats ACRN34 "MAP Azure Blue" is finally here in Aberdeenshire though, and is in the process of being tinned ready for sale this week.

I believe the colour match posed here on one of the tin lids against the RAF Museum approved colour chips - widely regarded as THE authority for RAF World War Two colours - speaks for itself.

US Air Force Colours

Let it never be said that Colourcoats does not endeavour to provide the modeller with the opportunities to start from a good basis.

Part of what interests me about this little business I fell in to is that there is so much to learn.

Like many, I until quite recently was under the mistaken believe that sea blue was sea blue, was sea blue. Or more specifically that it was different sheens on the same colour that adorned US Navy aircraft from 1943 until they started painting them Light Gull Grey over white. In my defence, it's an easy mistake to make as a modeller - there is so much misinformation out there. Look at most modelling resources and you'll find FS595 references for all these aircraft. Paint a "tricolor" scheme with FS35024. Paint an all-over blue Corsair with FS15042 - but wait, in FS595 doesn't the first digit simply denote the sheen implying these are exactly the same colour but with different glossiness? Grumman Panther? Yup that's FS15042 also. The fact that Federal Standard actually annotate the chip for FS35042 that it is ANA607 Non-Specular Sea Blue and that FS15042 is ANA623 Glossy Sea Blue really doesn't help to dispel the myth either.