camo color help

Several points in response:

1) How does the 34102 appear dry? Many colors look a tad lighter, while "wet in the bottle".

2) My observations from photos, have shown that the two greens do look very close in photos -- closer than one observes from eying two bottles of paint. The true colors may be those numbers "in theory", but in practice, they may "look" different. I am very much from the school that says how it "looks", is far more important than how it "is".

3) Use your photo reference as a guide, as opposed to strict adherence to the numbers. As a practical point, considering the scale effect, you might even want to use the old figure painting trick: your F-4 will be in three colors: A, B, and C. In your A, mix in a few drops of B and C. In your B, mix in a few drops of A and C. And in your C, mix in a few drops of A and B. This will tone them down a bit, for scale reasons, and "bring them closer together" (again, for scale reasons -- remember, the further away the subject matter gets, in real life, the "more overall gray" it becomes).

I don't know the answer to your question about the green that the instructions call for using. However, that paint scheme was commonly called "Euro-1" and was used on many aircraft in the 80s. You should be able to find refs for the Euro-1 scheme and the FS colors for it on the web. In fact, Testors Model Masters paint line actually had paint listed as Euro-I dark green, and gray. I haven't looked for those colors in some time but they are probably still available as such.

thanks Greg and Bill the info you gave me helped me out a bunch