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Maybe someone is interested in this, I checked Humbrol Official Shade Chart you can download from their site and compared it with Airfix Catalogue from 2021. And discontinued list looks like that: 23 Duck Egg Blue - Matt 35 Acrylic Varnish - Gloss 36 Pastel Green - Matt 37 Bright Green - Matt 42 Pastel Violet - Matt 44 Pastel Blue - Matt 49 Acrylic Varnish - Matt 55 Bronze - Metallic 57 Pink - Matt 58 Magenta - Matt 67 Tank Grey - Matt - there's a bug, it exist on shades page chart 68 Purple - Gloss 71 Oak - Matt - but my enamel tin says it's satin 72 Khaki Drill - Matt 75 Bronze Green - Matt 79 Blue Grey - Matt 81 Pale Yellow - Matt 82 Orange Lining - Matt - same bug like with 67 83 Ochre - Matt 87 Steel Grey - Matt 88 Deck Green - Matt 89 Middle Blue - Matt 90 Beige Green - Matt 91 Black Green - Matt 96 RAF Blue - Matt 100 Red Brown - Matt 102 Army Green - Matt 104 Oxford Blue - Matt 105 Marine Green - Matt 106 Ocean Grey - Matt 109 WWI Blue - Matt 116 US Dark Green - Matt 117 US Light Green - Matt 118 US Tan - Matt 119 Light Earth - Matt 120 Light Green - Matt 123 Extra Dark Sea Grey - Satin 125 US Dark Grey - Matt 126 US Medium Grey - Matt 128 US Compass Grey - Matt 129 US Gull Grey - Matt 132 Red - Satin 133 Brown - Satin 135 Acrylic Varnish - Satin 135 Enamel Varnish - Satin 140 Gull Grey - Matt 145 Medium Grey - Matt 147 Light Grey - Matt - third time this bug again 148 Radome Tan - Matt 149 Dark Green - Matt 150 Forest Green - Matt 156 Dark Camouflage Grey - Satin 157 Azure Blue - Matt 159 Khaki Drab - Matt 163 Dark Green - Satin 164 Dark Sea Grey - Matt 165 Medium Sea Grey - Matt 165 Medium Sea Grey - Satin 166 Light Aircraft Grey - Matt 167 Barley/Camouflage Grey - Matt 168 Hemp/Camouflage Beige - Matt 171 Antique Bronze = Matt 173 Track - Matt 196 Light Grey - Satin 208 Fluorescent Signal Green - Gloss 209 Fluorescent Fire Orange - Gloss And rest colours from 224 to 253 It mean's those are colours avalible now only in Acrylic version. Look like a lot of enamels are gone forever, (in my case 2 colours from 40 I have) But in the past people use floppy disk, then compact disc and now pendrives, so maybe enamels will die in the near future too.

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Years? My enamel humbrol white gloss didn't need even 24 hours to lost white color.

When it's in tinlet or paint on model is wet, then it's white. But when paint dries, it get's color of mix white with bronze, and from what I read on the net, every enamel have this issue doesn't matter which brand. Some says "yellowing paint".

What's your best solution for thinning acrylic paint? Water? Alcohol? Maybe straight to aerograph? What proportion? 1:1? 1/2? If it's matter I have a problem with 22 Gloss White. I have 40 enamel paitns and acrylic it's something new for me. (22 enamel is actually light bronze, but from what i read every brand have this problem so I need acrylic for this one color)

First time using model filler, it have consistency of watery glue and have black color, is it normal for humbrol model filler? Smell is incredible, but it shouldn't be grey or something? Instructions don't say anything, only safety notice, do I need to mix it with something or what?

Soon will back to this hobby and thinking about using some Varnish and Cote but don't really know what's the difference between these products, on humbrol YT page see that Gloss Cote is thick and need to be thinned with Enamel Thinner, and Gloss Clear Varnish is like water and be airbrushed straight from the bottle, isn't it better in that case but does the effect of this product is the same? My shop have also spray cans with both arcylic and enamel version and small cans 14ml in metal tinlets Gloss Clear Poly (enamel) and plastic cans Varnish Gloss (acrylic), it's also different products? I'm using only enamel paitns from Humbrol, does Clear Varnish will be safe for paint? Rumors says that both Clear and Cote make winter camouflage but everyone talk only about MATT or SATIN version, does Gloss have the same effect? I'm painting only civil cars so i'm interested only in GLOSS verson. ENG isn't my native so sorry for any mistakes.