AS v.s TS

Thanks for the help guys. It turns out TS and AS are not all that different, in fact, Tamiya's own 1/32 F-15 plastic kits use TS-30 as the upper surface color. Regardless, I decided to purchase the AS-12 (BMF) instead.

AS is just geared toward military aircraft, the TS is an all around color selection, they are both synthetic lacquers... (just found that out tonight)

http://www.tamiyausa.com/product/category.php?main-id=60

Dunno about the difference between the two silver colors but to me something with "XXX" Leaf as the name implies shinyness as in chrome or such... I think I would feel safer with the BMF of the AS series over the Silver Leaf just from the name.

I thought the AS were laquers and the TS were acrylics. I could very easily be wrong though, as I'm not really very sure about Tamiya. I rarely use their paints.