I spent a while yesterday cleaning up and fitting various panels. I won't post a picture because the model looks exactly like it did in the previous post, just with less holes in it.
My mind has, however, turned towards the painting. I've used Sovereign Hobbies' Colourcoats (which are enamels) on the interior but fancy using MRP's 'acrylic lacquers' for the exterior. This is not about ease of use, I've been spraying enamels for years and find them very easy to use. Thinning does not bother me at all. I have used the MRP paints once before, also finding them easy and simple to use. They spray straight out of the bottle and seem almost like inks.
This is about the colours. The more, ahem, experienced among us will remember the fold out sheet of '32 facsimile colour chips' at the back of the RAF Museum's 1976 publication and imaginatively titled 'British Aviation Colours of World War Two'. To my eye Colourcoats have always been a good match for these colours, one of the principle reasons I have used them.
So how does MRP compare?
Armed with an airbrush, some plastic from a milk bottle, a decent digital camera, what passes for natural light at this time of year and absolutely zero aptitude for anything photographic I made a comparison. I'll emphasise that point, It's a comparison! Given my photographic ineptitude, the vagaries of you computer or phone screen, etc. this is not intended to show the exact properties of the two sets of colours.
There's nothing in it. I would say that MRP's Ocean Grey (middle colour) may be a little bluer but otherwise, comparing two models finished in each set of paints, I doubt you could tell which which.
So, MRP it will be, I've bought the things now anyway! Of course, I'll have to finish building the model first.
My mind has, however, turned towards the painting. I've used Sovereign Hobbies' Colourcoats (which are enamels) on the interior but fancy using MRP's 'acrylic lacquers' for the exterior. This is not about ease of use, I've been spraying enamels for years and find them very easy to use. Thinning does not bother me at all. I have used the MRP paints once before, also finding them easy and simple to use. They spray straight out of the bottle and seem almost like inks.
This is about the colours. The more, ahem, experienced among us will remember the fold out sheet of '32 facsimile colour chips' at the back of the RAF Museum's 1976 publication and imaginatively titled 'British Aviation Colours of World War Two'. To my eye Colourcoats have always been a good match for these colours, one of the principle reasons I have used them.
So how does MRP compare?
Armed with an airbrush, some plastic from a milk bottle, a decent digital camera, what passes for natural light at this time of year and absolutely zero aptitude for anything photographic I made a comparison. I'll emphasise that point, It's a comparison! Given my photographic ineptitude, the vagaries of you computer or phone screen, etc. this is not intended to show the exact properties of the two sets of colours.
There's nothing in it. I would say that MRP's Ocean Grey (middle colour) may be a little bluer but otherwise, comparing two models finished in each set of paints, I doubt you could tell which which.
So, MRP it will be, I've bought the things now anyway! Of course, I'll have to finish building the model first.
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