The Little World

The colour that never stops giving.

Or changing, for that matter. The FS-G pot is a standard GSI Creos bottle that possibly started life as a silver. But at some stage of the game a colour call-out asked for a duller shade and some black or grey was dropped into it.

Then it got too thick, so some revitaliser was added and a little more white. Then the remains of a different metallic. And some thinners…Oh, I might as well admit that it probably has ink and chicken soup in there by now. It is the repository of stuff that I am loathe to put down the drains.

This means that every aircraft painted with it is slightly different – no bad thing. Right now it somewhat approximates a silver-doped linen and it is time to slide WW1 aircraft under it. If it brightens up I’ll use it for patches on a WW2 bomber or an unkempt civil airliner.

It may be time to start a pot of ” Serviceable Brown ” as a similar measure – I get full value out of the old paints.