ATOM paint sets gather the shades needed for one specific theme: the air force of a particular country, a campaign or a type of machine. The range covers groups for military air force camouflage, for cockpits, for helicopters and for ground vehicles, normally in four to six jars of twenty millilitres.
The advantage is straightforward: everything you need sits in one box and there are no conversion tables to work through. How to pick the right set is covered below.
The organising idea is not colour harmony but historical completeness. A camouflage set holds the upper shades, the underside and the supporting tones that appear on small areas of the machine. A cockpit set brings interior colours from several countries at once, so one box serves more than one build. For vehicles, the sets cover both the base finish and the tones used in field modifications.
Twenty millilitres per jar is a practical choice: enough for one model even when spraying, while the paint does not have time to age before you use it up. Camouflage sets also tend to include the tone for the edges of the fields, which is easy to overlook when choosing jars by hand.
The right set is the one you actually finish. Go through the kit instructions and compare how many of the shades will truly go on the model. If two out of six apply, buying the colours singly makes more sense.
A set contains paint, not thinner. If you are starting with the line, add a product from the thinners and cleaners category to the order, or you will not reach the airbrush stage.
No table captures how paint aged on a real machine. Once sprayed, it pays to lighten the centre of panels and darken the edges, creating a depth the correct shade alone will not deliver. It also pays to spray the undersides first, because overspray from below upwards is easier to correct than the reverse.
Sets from other makers, including groups for figures and railways, are in the model paint sets category.
