What color should I use to paint the hull of a USS Fletcher, red or hull red?

Also who makes good acrylic paints?

I use Model Master Enamel Insignia Red. About the acrylic, sorry I have never used acrylic paints, cant help you there.

HTH,
Garry

I have seen some people use red with a little black added to give it a deeper color.

Sean

Model Master has a range of paint for warships now. The US section has all the colors for all the different camouflage measures, as well as deck stains and hull greys. Hull anti fouling red and boot top gray-black are in there too I think.

Bluebear is spot on this. just like to add, these are acrylic paints.

Garry

I too usually just use Testor's Insignia Red. A true antifouling red actually has a brown tone to it, so adding a few drops of black to a red base would indeed probably get you close enough.

I'm not a big acrylic fan only because you really have to airbrush them to get the best coat and they don't adhere to the plastic as well as enamels, so you usually have to prime first, which can obscure some detail on smaller models. If you wash the models first with water and a small amount of dishwashing soap, you'll remove skin oils and the mold release agent which gives the paint a little more bite in the case of acrylics.

But hey, whatever floats yer boat!

Todd

I use insignia red