This is a paint set primarily meant for Civil Aviation on the 1930-50’s. I decided to use a 1/450 scala Heller DC-10 paint mule I had on my bench to use the paints on. Then I used each paint to see its finish and application. All the painting I did was with the Airbrush. These paints would also need to be thinned if brush painting.

The paints are best thinned with the ICM thinner, which I did not have, so I tried the following –

• Water worked Ok
• Hataka Thinner which was good
• Tamiya Acrylic Thinner: I found to be best with a 60% thinner and 40% paint.

Contents

• Silver 1024 which was good and gave a very nice, polished Aluminum Finish
• White 1001 this paint when down well but was a too matt for Civil Aviation aircraft.
• Dark Sea Grey 1014- very good finish and works very well
• Dark Blue 1077 – very good finish (I did brush paint the tail to try the paint)
• Deep Red 1007 – Good finish
• Medium Orange 1045 – good finish

The red and orange are very close colors.

I do highly recommend this paint, but I would not use the White on Civil Aircraft as its too matt.

Thanks to ICM for providing this paint set to review and IPMS USA for allowing me to review it for them.