TAMXF50 - Tamiya - Flat Field Blue Acrylic - 10mL Bottle

TAMXF50 - Tamiya - Flat Field Blue Acrylic - 10mL Bottle

Tamiya XF-50 Flat Field Blue is a dark, muted steel-blue grey designated in Tamiya's original colour guide as "Russian Air Force crew" — representing the distinctive dark blue-grey service uniform and flight suit colour worn by Soviet Voyenno-Vozdushnye Sily (VVS) aircrew and Air Force officers throughout the Great Patriotic War (1941–45). The colour sits tonally between a dark navy and a medium steel grey-blue, with enough desaturation to read convincingly as worn, field-condition Soviet Air Force uniform fabric in 1/35 and smaller scales. Beyond its figure application, XF-50 serves as a useful blue-grey component in mixing formulas for late-war Luftwaffe colours — appearing as the blue modifier in RLM 75 Grauviolett approaches — and provides a starting point for Soviet AMT-7 Goluboy undersurface blue on VVS aircraft when adjusted toward lighter blue-grey with XF-2 Flat White.

Tamiya Acrylic paints are a hybrid acrylic formula built on water-soluble resin — they can be thinned with water, isopropyl alcohol, or lacquer thinner, and clean up easily with water before curing. When thinned with Tamiya Lacquer Thinner, the paint lays down faster, dries harder, and bonds more aggressively to the substrate. The hybrid resin chemistry means the paint film remains slightly soluble after initial drying — subsequent brush strokes can reactivate and lift the layer below if applied without restraint. For this reason, airbrushing is strongly recommended for large surface coverage. Brush painting is workable for detail and touch-up work, but requires a gentle, deliberate stroke and a fully cured base layer. See our Tamiya Acrylic vs. Enamel vs. Lacquer guide for a full breakdown of paint type differences.

• Soviet VVS aircrew uniforms — the standard base colour for Soviet Air Force pilot and aircrew figures in the dark steel-blue service uniform worn throughout the Eastern Front, 1941–45; applicable to VVS fighter pilots of the 1st Guards Fighter Aviation Division flying Yak-1/7/9 and La-5/7, Pe-2 bomber crews of the 4th Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment, and Il-2 Shturmovik ground-attack aircrew across all Soviet fronts from Leningrad to Stalingrad and into Germany; Tamiya designates XF-50 specifically as "Russian Air Force crew" in its original colour guide
• Soviet VVS officer service dress — dark blue-grey jacket and breeches combination worn by Red Army Air Force officers in garrison, command post, and command vehicle diorama contexts; appropriate for senior VVS officer figures from Operation Barbarossa (June 1941) through to the Berlin offensive (April–May 1945) across 1/35 and 54mm figure subjects
• Soviet naval aviation uniforms — the dark blue-grey of Soviet Naval Aviation (VVS VMF) aircrew operating from the Black Sea Fleet and Baltic Fleet air arms, including Ilyushin Il-4 torpedo bomber crews of Mine-Torpedo Aviation Regiments operating over the Baltic and Black Sea, 1941–44
• Lend-Lease P-39 and P-40 pilot figures — Soviet VVS pilots who flew American Lend-Lease aircraft including the Bell P-39 Airacobra (the most widely flown Lend-Lease type in Soviet service, with over 4,700 delivered) and the Curtiss P-40 retained Soviet Air Force uniform colours rather than US flying equipment; XF-50 is the correct base coat for these figures in diorama work depicting Lend-Lease aircraft and their Soviet crews
• RLM 75 Grauviolett mixing component — XF-50 contributes the blue-violet shift in RLM 75 mixes (5 parts XF-24 + 1 part XF-50 + 2 parts XF-2 Flat White), producing the grey-violet late-war upper surface mottle applied alongside RLM 74 on Fw 190 A-8/A-9, Bf 109 G-10/K-4, and Luftwaffe night fighters from 1943 onward
• Soviet AMT-7 Goluboy undersurface blue base — lightened substantially with XF-2 Flat White, XF-50 provides a starting point for AMT-7, the standard VVS lower surface blue-grey applied to Yakovlev Yak-1/3/7/9, Lavochkin La-5/7, and Ilyushin Il-2 from mid-1941 through to the end of the war
• Soviet NKVD and political officer uniforms — the dark blue tunic worn by NKVD security troops and political commissars (politruks) attached to VVS units; appropriate for commissar and security figures in Eastern Front dioramas and vignettes depicting the complex command structures of the Soviet Air Force
• General dark blue-grey figure utility — a versatile, naturally desaturated dark blue-grey for any WWII or Cold War figure application requiring a non-navy, non-black dark blue; applicable to French Air Force officers, Finnish Air Force (Ilmavoimat) aircrew, and various European air force parade and service dress uniforms that carry a dark blue-grey tone

For full Tamiya paint colour references and modelling compatibility charts, visit our Tamiya Paint Colour Chart — Complete Guide for Scale Modellers.

Thin and airbrush with Tamiya Lacquer Thinner, Mr. Color Thinner, or Mr. Color Leveling Thinner.

• 10ml glass jar
• Part of the Tamiya Acrylic paint range