US Navy Hataka model Paints

Hataka Hobby is a new Polish company that started a two months ago. Today we can state that Hataka  luanch was sucessful, they have a number of distributors including Stevens International in US. What is marketing tagline of Hataka is accuracy of color. Some modelers can discuss, but it looks good somebody started dedicated aviation sets with attention to shades.

We have put their color to our shop so it is a good point to see what colors are suitable for US Navy airplanes:



US navy set is HTK-AS05 Late US Navy paint set

It contains colors for mid war tricolor scheme for Pacific and late ASW color for Atlantic

HTK-A006 — Semi-Gloss Sea Blue — Used for top of fuselage and upper wing surfaces of US Navy carrier-based aircraft from January 1943 till June 1944, while gloss version was used as a standard overall colour from June 1944 till end of war
HTK-A044 — Dark Gull Grey — Used for topside in US Navy anti-submarine warfare paint scheme of aircraft operating over the Atlantic
HTK-A027 — Intermediate Blue — Used for fuselage sides and vertical stabilizer of US Navy carrier-based aircraft from January 1943 till June 1944
HTK-A043 – Insignia White — Standard colour of lower surfaces of US Navy carrier-based aircraft in 1942-43 period and of anti-submarine aircraft operating over the Atlantic

Hopefuly Hataka will release early war grey and interior color as well.

You can review colors in their website here