True North Paints is a relatively new entry into the crowded scale modeling paint market.   According to the manufacturers website, these paints are a "precision matched oil based enamel paint"   I was sent a set to review.   The paints all come in 16ml bottles.  My sample set included the following:

How they perform:
To see how the paints performed, I sprayed several samples with either a Badger 100 or an Iwata airbrush.   All paints were sprayed on unprimed white styrene. 

In addition to the paint sprayed on the white styrene, I airbrushed a few colors onto some various models, and brush painted some deck blue onto another kit, to see how they performed.

The first go round - with Norfolk 65-A Anti Foul Red, didn't go so well.   When I thinned it to the "normal" consistency of other enamel paints, using Tamiya Lacquer thinner, I found the paint tended to splattered.   An email to Jaime DuPont, President of True North Paints, resulted in a new batch of samples, as they had recently been reformulated the paints.   Jaime also gave me some input on how he personally thinned the paints.   Who better to ask than the man himself, right? 

Taking Jaime's advice, and thinning the paints with approximately 25% of True North's own thinner, I got much better results than the first time.   Still, I found the paint was very thin when sprayed.   The hull red needed several coats to fully cover the lower hulls of a 1/350 carrier and 1/700 battleship.   It did cover better where the plastic was primed.  I also airbrushed deck blue onto the deck of a 1/700 battleship.  I only did one coat, but it was apparent that at least one more coat would be needed for full coverage.  Again, coverage was better where the deck had been primed. 

Brush painting works, but the paints go on quite thin, so coverage must be accomplished in layers. 

Here's how the paints look airbrushed onto a 1/700 battleship hull and on 1/350 carrier hulls.   One half of the battleship hull was primed, one half was not. 
 

How they match:

I tested eight different Snyder and Short color chips against their corresponding paints.  Each of these was airbrushed onto a sheet of white styrene.   The 20-B Deck Blue and Norfolk 65-A Hull Red received two coats.   In the interest of time, everything else got one coat. 

The bottle on the Light Grey say its' "Early 1941" 5-L, but I think it looks more like the later 5-L.    Overall, to my untrained eye, the rest of the paints seemed a pretty close match, with the Early 1941 Ocean Grey being the closest match. 

All in all, these seem to be pretty decent paints.  I think the key will be for modelers to experiment and find the best thinner to paint ratio that works for them.   I think molders using an airbrush will like them better than brush painters.   For US based modelers, True North is a good option for "color matched" US Navy paints enamel paints, as the other major color-matched enamel brand - which is from the UK - can only be sourced by two vendors in the states.   Personally, I also like the bottles vs tins, just for ease of opening, pouring, clean-up, etc. 

The paints are available directly from True North's website.  The 16ml bottles are $4.99 each.   Thanks to True North Paints for the samples, and to Jaime DuPont for the fast response and feedback to my questions.   Recommended.