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If you notice on these chips there are several that have the same FS595 number but are clearly different...... Take the Greens as an example there are 3 of them that claim to be FS 34258s and yet none look alike......welcome friend to the world of "its close enough" modeling.
You go out and buy MM-Model Master 34258 and then you look at the Floquil Warsaw pac Grey Green and the Fs # printed on the bottle is also 34258...? And then you throw in Polly Scales Warsaw pac Grey Green which also has FS34258 printed on.......Again "its close enough mentality" both in the industry and in the hobby itself. And really which is 34258?
I just want to clarify that although different paints have the same name or FS number but do not visually match are the result of the various companies slip shod research. What I can attest to is, no matter what the names or FS Number, each COLOR on the chip has been checked by me against the Methuen Handbook of Color 1985 printing and all of these colors fall with in the various color Methuen ranges that Mr Toelle wrote about in his 1985 letter in the #104 issue of Aero WWI magazine.
So if your going to do a model of this scheme the FS# really don't apply whats in the bottle is what counts . And here from the 1984 FS595A is what 34258 supposed to look like.
Again the colors are correct as I can get them, all all four sets of chips have been checked against the Methuen.
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