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This I do know, and have done it before. I should know better! Should!!!!!!!Looking good though Bill. Remember it's under a cowling in 1/48 behind a propeller.
Ralph, I use Aussie made SMS acrylic lacquer paints only now.Bill - I'm considering jumping in this GB with a 1:72 Tamiya version, the only kit that I have that meets the GB criteria. However I refuse to do the ratio mixes for the colors called for and will not go out and buy a rattle can of their FS-8. I believe I have some equivalents in my Vallejo stash, but would like to know what you are using for the interior and the gloss blue? There are some Tamiya XF colors that may pass (that I do have) but just wondering?
As a general rule US military aircraft from WWII used FS 54151 (interior green) there were some variations such as early Grumman used Bronze green and I think Republic had a bronze green as well but by the end of the war through Kora 54151 was the color. Like any color it was mixed at the factory and was not always a matching shade.Bill, my feeble research turned up FS 34151 for the interior for a 1D. Tamiya XF-49 (in my stash) seems to be close enough. Vallejo has colors that are claimed to be 34151 but are much darker and on the green side, so I'll use the Tamiya. For the Deep Sea Blue on the 1D (my research indicted FS 35042 (may be for the gloss finish? 25042 indicates semi-gloss). Since I don't have any of the 'exact' matches for the blue I'm just going wing it with the blues that I do have. Mine is a much simpler, less detailed version of yours, so the color requirements are less.
Oh! And thanks....
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