What is Cowling colour 125 (by gunze sangyo)?

This is a silver black color. I usually make this out of enamels but you could do it with acrylics just as easily. Pour some flat black into a pop bottle top then add two or three drops of silver and mix well. It should look like a very very dark gray or just slightly light black with a faint metallic sheen to it. From here I add thinner (lacquer thinner for enamels, windex for acrylics) and airbrush it on.

Cowlings were painted a blue black color, a blue so dark, it looks black. I believe Polyscale made the color. I'm not sure about Testors, off hand. If you wan to try to mix the color, it's 20 parts black, 5 parts of blue similar to Blue Angels blue and 2 parts royal blue. Hope this helps. Swanny's post beat me. It seems we have a difference of opinion. Go with what works for you.

I think most WW2 Japenese AC had the Blue Black on cowls & antiglare panels. I've never found an FS for it, I just mix 1 part ModelMaster Dark Sea Blue with 1 part Flat Black. It comes out Black with a slight blue highlight. Can't say its totally accurate, but matches photos OK.

Shmodeler;
I just used testors flat blue and black. Mixed until it looked right. Don't remember the ratio though. Sorry about being no help.
Steve

Thanks to all of you guys!

Well I guess it's 3:1 so far for, Blue black VS Black silver.

st_gorder, yes you did help!

Swanny I guess I'll go with the rest of the hurd, Thanks for your help.

Ahhh.... wait! did any one thought maybe to mix Black Blue and Silver together just so everyone is happey??

If you look at the cowl of my Rufe in my signature pic, you'll see what Aeromaster marketed as cowl blue/black. I believe that White Ensign Models now has this (along with many other IJN/IJA aircraft colors.
For anyone building WW II Japanese aircraft, I recommend this site highly:

http://www.j-aircraft.com

In the "Reference" section, you'll find a lot of info on the China air war (where the type 11 was used), along with a page of notes dealing with the issues with Tamiya's 1/32 Zeke.

Hope this helps.

Testor's has a 'Black Pearl' that I'm using on a P-61. After a light coat of Dulcote it looks great.

Testor's has a 'Black Pearl' that I'm using on a P-61. After a light coat of Dulcote it looks great.

Thanks for the info guys!

PIXI your models are simply amazing!

thank all of you for the great links!