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  1. I ran across this photo in the WW2Aircraft.net photo section in a 2007 posting, with no comment about the markings. My guess would be a German repaint for some propaganda film, but a French Fokker?
  2. As far as the colors, definitely dark green and brown over aluminum lacquer, but the color photos are not adequate to say these colors are a match for MAP/British colors. The camouflage pattern appears to be the same for the entire run (unlike the British order) and resembles, but is not the same, as the British pattern. One of the cited references indicates that there was no ventral window on the Belgian aircraft. This is incorrect - they had the same ventral window as the F2A-2 and 339C/D/E.
  3. 1.) British harness (and seat); 2.) [cursing the ghost of Carl Maydans] there is reason to believe the fuselage bands, applied in theater, were Sky Blue. There was an epic Britmodeller thread, well, Bayeaux Tapestry, on the subject initiated by Mark Haselden but many of the links in it are broken.
  4. The biggest example was the Boeing 314, where the gradation on the fuselage sides sometimes looked like pressure lines on a weather map... https://www.airhistory.net/photo/456917/NC18611
  5. Here's a link to a chart I did up to summarize the differences between variants - hope it is of use....scroll down and click on "External Differences Chart" for the download...
  6. As for Glimpy, I suspect someone was trying to pun off 'blimp' and perhaps 'glider'. My understanding is that the ultimate objective was to develop a radio controlled drone but test flights included a pilot. Unclear as to whether retrieval was contemplated (this isn't an F9C!).
  7. The MAP orders for ambulance aircraft called for white undersurfaces, so that's likely, and from the original B&W photo that looks to be the case. I'd go with Dark Earth/Fark Green.
  8. There's lots of info out there, although much is contradictory. For example, search using the term 'Piper NE-1 Glimpy' and you'll find a mind blowing Cub used as a parasite. I'm sure the undersurfaces are white but not confident in calling the uppers. https://www.avionslegendaires.net/2016/04/actu/et-lus-navy-transforma-des-piper-cub-en-avions-parasites/ There's a Blue-Gray over Light Gray Piper at https://www.caffrenchwing.fr/en/2022/04/29/restauration-du-piper-cub-du-caf-french-wing-aidez-a-ramener-dans-le-ciel-the-little-blue-cloud/ plus one that's probably three-tone (note the odd wing insignia) and then a bit of sharkmouth
  9. There was an article on modifying the 1/48 AMT kit to the early French version in IPMS USA Journal 19-1.
  10. Actually, the pilot's manual is essential since the 339E cockpit is different from the other versions.
  11. Yes, those are the fuel fill locations for the 339's as well. BTW, the white disc halfway between the right wing gun bay and the fuselage is a thermometer, oriented so the pilot could view it. Interestingly- in view of the USA's bullheaded refusal to switch to the metric system ( hey, us and Liberia!) - that thermometer is in Celsius- 0° straight outboard, and + 20° and 40° to the right, - 20° and 40° to the left.
  12. Just a thought (without ANY evidence!) as to why orange as opposed to yellow. Yellow was already in widespread use to identify training aircraft. It would seem logical that a combat unit would avoid using a training color, and thus 'orange' in the description probably means a real orange, rather than orangy yellow.
  13. Can't answer the cockpit color off the top of my head, but if actually a series IX, wouldn't the tan color be hazelnut rather than giallo mimetico?
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