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Old 02-23-2022, 09:07 AM
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I have tried the AK brand and found I didn’t like how they sprayed. I tried various thinners and a few colors. Just me I guess.

the MCW enamels are nice, but have different names than the laquers, the color name they use for od#9 / 22 is the post war FS number, I think it s 233070 or close to it. The actual color of their enamel 319 is fugly. It’s a forest green color, totally wrong….
No company makes all the right colors in the same type of paint sadly.

At my LHS they haven’t restocked some Tamiya colors like od and khaki for a year. I’m hoping Tamiya is fixing their color issue with OD so I can go back to my Tamiya mixture formula as I have 3 shades of 319 for fresh color and fading and shading.
I prefer Tamiya acrylic because it holds up the best for RC I’ve found.