Tamiya sprays to match RAAF Hornets

Cant help you mate, after a bad first experience with tamiya spray as a kid (15y/o) I never touched them again. If you're going to be dealing in alot of 72 scale an airbrush would give you much better results overall as you can lay down thinner coats and you also have a better range of colours.

As for your Hornet I think they are a different colour to our F-111 I'd say easy. Just checking some references You wont get the bottom colour in Tamiya without mixing, the top colour maybe a match for XF-66 Light Grey, I cant find a spray can match. Personally I'd say Gunze Sangyo you giv you better colour matches but no spray cans.

Andrew

Andrew,

Thanks for your help.  Will look at the Gunze range and also look into air brushes because you're right about greater flexibility to colour match (just a bit daunting and although I'm far from being a newbie modeller, I am with airbrushes).   So far on the current Hornet build I've used Dark Ghost and Light Ghost greys and will make good with this model but the next one I'll experiment with.

My F-111C sitting there to build is A8-132 which is camo on top of the wings and fuselage and everywhere else is gloss white plus calibration markings.