I got to playing around and I thought I'd do a bit of an add on. Now I don't have an official set of chips for the colors used by the The RAF/FAA, but I did spend a large (for me) sum of money on AK's Real Colors of WWII. AK's Real colors paint is a very user friendly paint, but they have been Bashed pretty good (notably by Mike Starmmer) for their less then stellar color matching as well as taking a few liberties with the authors submission., so I think it would be fair to say that the colors offered can be considered somewhat suspect.
With this in mind I have used their book as a bit of a guide with a caveat.
First up is a comparison of Humbrol 106, Ocean grey, and Floquil 34079, Dark Green painted on a piece of scrap, and Hatakas versions compared to the the chips in the book
Maybe not the easiest to see, but Hataka's Dark Green is very close match to the printed swatch , and Floquil's is a touch darker, and Humbrols Ocean Grey is an almost exact match where as Hataka's is a bit light and a touch blueish.
Next is more of a footnote as I used Tamiya's Medium Sea Grey which is supposed to be a close match but is a bit light compared to the swatch in the book.
Then I did a bit of painting on an old kit, I used both Tamiya's Lacquer Thinner, and Mr.ColorThinner, what I found was that a mix of 3-5 Paint to Thinner gave the best finish with the Mr.ColorThinner seeming to give a better result then Tamiya's Lacquer Thinner. Mind you this was done a bit on the fly so individual results might vary. This little device is indispensable to me in mixing paints in these droppers such as Hataka and Vallejo.
The far right is sprayed with no thinner added, the left is thinned in the given ratio, using a Badger 100 with a fine needle.
Next up the top Lancaster tail fin is painted in Humbrol 29 and the recommended I think 172? With Hataka's Dark Earth/Dark Green, which are almost identical, although the Hataka Dark Earth is a touch less grey then the Humbrol color.
And just for kicks a Tamiya Mix for Extra Dark Sea Grey
Any comments about the Dark Earth swatch and paints would be most appreciated.