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Old 07-29-2015 | 07:29 AM
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So im making some scale parts for my skymaster T38 thunderbirds scheme and need some of the red white and blue. I was wondering if anyone has matched up some paint useing the testors or tamiya ratle can paints. All my scale items are antennas so i dont need much and rather buy these paints than to go get. Ppg paint matched


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Old 07-29-2015 | 02:10 PM
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Lucky you I'm working on the t-33 and just did some painting the best match was from two paints.this is the pictures with the color codes.
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Old 07-30-2015 | 04:53 AM
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If you want to use Tamiya paints, the codes are X-3 (royal blue) and TS-8 (Italian red).

I have a feeling that the colours are insignia red and blue, FS31136 (red) and FS35044 (blue), but I can't find my references at the moment, so I may be wrong.
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Don't know how close the Skymaster paint matches the FS numbers, but the official paint codes are FS 17875 Insignia White, FS 35044 Insignia Blue and FS 31136 Insignia Red

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