F-15 Air Superiority Blue - Who Makes It?

[Madoc]

Folks,

I've the need of some Air Superiority Blue and am having a hard time finding it in paint form.

Anyone here know if it's being manufactured?

Y'all have your own formulas for creating it?

Thus far I've found that Testors Russian Flanker Medium Blue TES2131 is close.

I'm hoping for something that's more spot on - and also currently in production so there's less chance of the paint going stale due to age.

I'd appreciate the help.

Madoc

[Jennings]

Find something close, sit down with that plus some white, some black, some green, some red, and some bright blue and start mixing.  

I don't know why so many people are terrified to mix their own paint colors (not saying you are, but lots are).  I've probably wasted 300 bottles of paint in my time, but I've had some major successes too.  The trick to it is, go slow, add *tiny* amounts until you see the effect starting to develop, then go cautiously to get the shade you're after.  Then cut it with about 30-50% white

But that's another kettle of fish isn't it?

Given that only two airplane types ever used it, and then only for a matter of months in the mid-1970s, it's not highly likely to be tops on any paint producer's list of must-do's.  I'd be surprised if any exists.

J

[anthonyp]

I think Xtracolour made one at one time.

As for me, I'd start off with either the Flanker pale blue or duck egg blue, and start adding some FS35109 (plain old blue, MM 2031 I think).

Or go the other way, start with FS35109 and start adding white...

According to this chart, the blue you're looking for might be FS35450 Air Superiority Blue.

Then again, I have no idea what I'm talking about, because according to this chart, MM2031 IS Air Superiority Blue...  

On the third appendage, there might be other blues that might have been the F-15 Blue (FS35526 (MM2132), for example)...

BTW, this last color chart is located on this page.  It's a really handy color tool (other than when it's contradicting itself    )

[Archangel]

A long time back pactra paints had something called Pale Light Blue that came very close to what your looking for. The bad news is the pactra paints went out of business years ago.

[jcf]

Pactra as a brand is owned by Testors and the paints are produced for the RC model market, water-thinned acrylics(1 oz. bottles) and lacquers (2/3 oz. bottles & 3 oz. sprays) for cars and water-thinned acrylics for aircraft(1 oz. bottles). What, if any, differences in paint formulation when compared to the the rest of the product lines is an unknown.

Testors paint brands

Something else to check is acrylic craft-paint, the variety of hues is very wide and I've found that most brands thin and spray OK, priming the plastic first is recommended.

Jon