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...Maybe I should subtly discolor the area in question as a weathering step to represent what is in the photos. It is dark in some photos and light in others. Maybe like a burning from the heat. Not sure how to show that but I'll have to experiment a bit.
Now I need to settle on a Spinner color. White seems to be the accepted in the BoF. Armistice period is unsure but the top two photos you posted show the spinner a different and darker shade than the white armistice stripe. Maybe the yellow seen in the profiles.
Wow. You modeler guys don't fool around.My pleasure. Glad I could help a little bit.
Regarding the weathering and discolouration of the front area of the fuselage... I would say that the part should stay as it was painted with the camo coat there. It could get a little bit faded but I don't think so. It is more likely that teh effect is because of getting darker of the panels behind the front segment. The overheating , dirt and dust and, for sure, the soot from the exchaust pipes were the reason for. So I think it would be better to make the panel plates behind the front part darker.
As far as the spinner colour is concerned... the three images I posted above indicate the spinner could be of the yellow. But the colour was introduced only when the D.520s were moved to the Algier and Syria. The spinners and the tails were painted yellow just because of that. See the image with the "White 4" . Before that, the Vichy had used the white strip along the fuselage with the white disc for the French roundel during the Armistice period. The white strip soon became the "arrow" but the actual marking was still the white strip there. All the pics of the "6" seem to be taken in 1940 in à Maison-Blanche but the D.520s of the GC III/6 were moved to Syria in May 1941. This may indicate that the spinner was light painted ( usually the D.520s had them of black ) earlier than the unit was moved. However I saw a pic with GC III/7 with spinners painted light but without the Armistice markings and dated on August 1940. If the spinner was of the white during the BoF it could remain of the colour during the Armistice time. It can indicate the third pic of the "6" where you may notice the same white both for the spinner and the Vichy "arrow". The slightly darker tone of the spinner seen in the two first images and also in the shot with her in the hangar, can be caused either by using a filter for taking these pics or poor scanning process. Therefore I made an experiment. I used three colours that could be used for painting of the spinner. The blue and red from the French roundel and the yellow used by Vichy. Then I converted the pic with the "6" flying into the B&W shot. The result you may see below. The yellow shadow in the B&W pic is the closest one to the spinner tone. But I wouldn't be surprised if the spinner would be of the light blue used for the rudder strips. Actually the spinner coat has the same tinge in the orginal images.
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Hello,
Some others details:
No "Masque de Tragédie" on the tail during BoF.
N°277 is an early serie D.520, so, early air scoop each side of the nose
Antenna mast NMF and "chamois "color probable behind the rear cockpit windows
HTH
Stéph