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I'd managed to amass a pretty wide selection of the Colourcoats Royal Navy line before Sovereign Hobbies announced that they were hanging up their spurs, but I somehow neglected to snag two of the most important colors-- B.5 and M.S.4-- until it was too late. Similarly, I snoozed and lost on the entire Kriegsmarine palette. Can anybody recommend a good Plan B? I'm prepared to consider pretty much any underlying chemistry (acrylics, alkyds, lacquers, whatever), but it has to be something that I can brush on, because there's nowhere in my house where I can realistically run an airbrush, even if I felt like learning how to use one. Anything like Tru-Color paints, with the consistency of India ink, is no good for my purposes.

This probably doesn't help, but I don't think anyone will match/substitute for Colourcoats, even if some of them purport to reference colour chips (and the ones that do, specify the Snyder and Short chips that Colourcoats has concluded erroneous in several respects, e.g. the B5 you're looking for)

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De quoi s'agit-il?

Yeah, that's exactly the problem I've been running into. Like True North Precision Paints, my current go-to for US Navy colors, has a Royal Navy line that can most charitably be described as fantastical. At this point, I'm consciously fishing for least-bad matches. Stuff like Mr. Color's Nakajima Green being a halfway-plausible approximation for the RN's Cold War-era Deck Green, you know?

A resurrection is looking likely. Whilst a transaction has not yet taken place, a new company has been registered by an intended buyer and they've signed up a lease for a premises. A price has been agreed and a date agreed next month to pick up the remaining stock and equipment.

Assuming all goes ahead, which I see little reason to believe otherwise, the new owner will need a wee bit of time to get up and running.

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James Duff
Sovereign Hobbies Ltd
http://www.sovereignhobbies.co.uk

Current build:
HMS Imperial D09 1/350
http://www.shipmodels.info/mws_forum/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=167151

Thank you!

So you are saying that I will likely have Colourcoat tins from no less than three separate companies?

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Tracy White -Researcher@Large

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-Barbara Tuchman

Now that I couldn't venture, but there is a new company registered in the UK, and the buyer is coming here this weekend to collect everything and get familiarised with a few intricacies in the paint machine etc. He gets access to his premises on Monday, I believe. Being realistic I think it'll be into the new year before newly manufactured stock goes on sale - we'll be giving him an export of products and all their coding attributes from our webstore to save him a heap of time establishing his own (we had to do everything from scratch in that regard and it took us ages as we also had to teach ourselves how to do it). Still, he has a journey ahead of him.

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James Duff
Sovereign Hobbies Ltd
http://www.sovereignhobbies.co.uk

Current build:
HMS Imperial D09 1/350
http://www.shipmodels.info/mws_forum/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=167151