Solution Book #36 - How to Paint USAF/US Navy Grey Aircraft

Solution Book 36 - painting gray American aircraft

A modeling guide from AMMO of Mig Jimenez devoted to painting and dirtying aircraft of the US Air Force and the Navy in gray schemes. It is not a kit or a set of paints but a publication, that is a pictorial guide to follow when painting a model.

What the guide contains

• A method in steps that follow on from one another, from the base coat to the final dirtying.
• Photographs of the individual stages on particular models.
• Icon marking of the steps, which the manufacturer uses in the Solution Book series in place of lengthy descriptions.
• Work with the low contrast that is the main difficulty of gray schemes.
• Ideas for picking out panels, wear on the step areas and exhaust staining behind the engines.
• A warning that the differences between shades of gray are small, so it pays to try them side by side on an offcut before you set about the model.

Who it is for

Modern American aircraft wear unobtrusive gray schemes, on which neither sharp camouflage nor a heavy wash helps. The whole impression rests on fine differences of shade, cleanly worked panels and wear in the right places, and that is exactly the content of this guide. It suits builders of machines in 1:72 and 1:48 whose gray model comes out flat, and it serves just as well as a check on the method before a modeler sets about a large piece. Neither the number of pages nor the language versions is stated here.

The publication contains no paints or modeling supplies.