Eight years of the development of the finishes of American naval aviation in one set of paints ready for spraying without further thinning.
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The war in the Pacific caught American naval aviation in the middle of the transition from the silvery machines of the interwar years to camouflaged combat aircraft. Within a few years the regulations changed so often that today you can tell the date of a photograph precisely by the finish. This set follows the whole arc from the first camouflage attempts to the unified appearance of the closing fighting.
The paints come from a line intended directly for spraying. Their pigment is ground exceedingly finely and the consistency is set so that they can be poured into the cup straight from the bottle without your having to look for the right ratio with thinner. Anyone who sprays small models or works with a nozzle of small diameter will appreciate that the paint does not clog the passage and lets itself be led in a narrow line.
Besides the camouflage itself, the national markings and the matte anti-glare panel in front of the cockpit changed over time as well. Carrier aircraft moreover lived in a far harsher environment than land-based ones: salt air, hydraulic fluid and the constant movement of equipment about the deck took more out of them than the fighting itself.
The shades of the cockpits, the wheel wells and the varnishes are ordered separately; they are not in this package. It pays to think in advance about how you will finish the model as well: naval aircraft tended to be matte, but the worn areas around the walkways gained a slight sheen from boots and from the rags with which the machine was wiped. It is precisely such differences in the reflectivity of the surface that make a finished build convincing more than a shade hit with the greatest accuracy.
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