just found out humbrol has quit making #111 uniform grey,[read FIELD GRAY] what gives? ive been useing that colour for german uniforms for over 30 years. first track colour and now this .Is humbrol trying to run off customers or what. i also think their NEW FORMULA so called super enamel sucks

Without a doubt they seem to be rapidly dropping all but the most popular colours. This has been happening for a good number of years, I was particularly saddened by the loss of Brown Bess one of the best colours, to use for boots and leather webbing before building up the oil washes. In the initial run of dropouts they produced a folder that contains lots of pages with recipes to mix the colours, there was a kit containing tins and syringe to achieve this. At the time they said having taken my money that the folder would be regularly updated, on an annual basis to take account of the smaller range. I never did see an update and there has been much suggestion for a number of years to retailers about some new range of extra special acrylic colours..................never yet seen.

John

Saw this announcement on the Airfix site last week, not that it's much help

Paints

Those humbrol acryilics,in the airfix book Celebrating 50 Years of the greatest plastic kits around the world on P-170-171 theres the red arrows Gnat gift pack thing theres the Acrylic paint in there and this book was printed in 1999

The humbrol's 111 quiting has been dicussed here on forums long ago and last september (almost 10 monyhs ago!) I bought all the 111s I've found I'll be ok some years..

Hi John. Im a Humbrol user also, and was a bit upset, when this was dropped. But in hindsight, its not the end of the world. For each time I need this colour, I mix greens and greys to get close to the original but don´t sweat it!. Because of weathering and different batches, its better with a little variation. Using the one colour all the time becomes boring. This works for me. I was lucky enough to find some 111 later, but still mix up some variations, as it looks better rather than all, having the same colour!8)