Vallejo paints....?

[Robert Porter]

Vallejo Model Air paints are not necessarily better than Tamiya, but they are thinned enough to normally spray direct without further thinning. They do not do very well with a hairy brush. In the past Vallejo was known for not being very accurate in color matching, however in recent years they have refreshed their entire line and the color matches tend to be much better. Personally I use them and Tamiya's as neither line is complete in terms of color matching for every instance. There is a large overlap but each line has colors unique to it. Oddly enough I have had no issues mixing Vallejo and Tamiya together. Works fine.

 

[bdefen]

Jan, the Navy Blue is a wrong name I'm afraid. The correct one is the Dark Sea Blue . You may use two colours either the non-spectacular ( matt ) one or semi-gloss/ gloss one. FS 35042 , 25042/15042 - Vallejo Model Air 71295 USN Sea Blue FS 35042 , VMA 71300 Glossy Sea Blue FS 15042.
The Intermediate Blue - FS 35164 - Vallejo Model Air 71299 Intermediate Blue FS 35164,
The non-spectacular White - FS 37875/ 37778 ~ Vallejo Model Air 71279 Insignia White FS 37875/ Vallejo Colour 70820..

Always you may buy the Vallejo 71157 US Navy/USMC paint set

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Also you may have a look there... quite interesting list of equivalents of faded tones in percentages for these colours. The Vallejo numbers are in the last , right column.

Douglas SBD Dauntless Pacific Tri-Color Scheme Color Profile and Paint Guide

As far as the primer is concerned.. which one ... the Salmon one (someting between the FS 32276 and FS 32356) or the Yellow Zinc Chromate FS 33637/33481/33440?

I bought the Vallejo paint set shown above, and then started buying and building the USN aircraft models. I'm not anything like an expert on USN WW2 colors, but I think the set is reasonably accurate. Here are two models I've done with them. Have a few more to do, as well.

 

[Wurger]