The Ionic Smart Colors WWII British Camouflage & Airborne Denison set includes 12 acrylic paints specially chosen to provide the essential tones for painting uniforms for WWII British and Commonwealth airborne forces, as well as the Pixie suit (a British tank crew oversuit also used by soldiers at the end of the Second World War.

The set includes two brown shades for the camouflage base: a more brownish version and another more greenish representing (later production batches from 1944), along with a darker brown to be used for shadow. These colors are also suitable for painting the iconic British battledress, worn on paratrooper trousers. For the camouflage pattern, the set provides a pea green and a dark brown to paint the characteristic brushstroke marks. Where these overlapped, the result was a darker shade, caused by layering one color over the other. The set also offers several paints for equipment, including a light khaki green for webbing and pouches, black for boots, brown for wooden parts and the water bottle, and even maroon for the beret, along with one skin tone. This set also includes a light Bone color, intended for mixing with the other colors to create highlights.

While each of these colors can be used to paint specific parts of the figure, they can also be blended to produce new shades and tones used to build volume by playing with light and shadow.

Contents of the set: 

IONIC - 0014  High Coverage Yellow

IONIC - 0029 Golden Flesh

IONIC - 0047 Blazing Orange

IONIC - 0053 Super Hero Red

IONIC - 0069 Dark Magenta

IONIC - 0096 Phthalo Blue

IONIC - 0101 Steel Shadow

IONIC - 0124 Dark Green

IONIC - 0158 Dark Skin

IONIC - 0167 Prussian Blue

IONIC - 0172 Black