I'm looking at doing the early '90's Hasagawa boxing of the Ki-61 Hein and plan to do Chuichi Ichikawa's (244-Sentai HQ) solid green aircraft with the 3 leaf clover on it. I've gotten confused about the lower color. The instructions call out C62/H56 (IJA Gray) for the bottom. I have H56 and it is a light green, which seems more appropriate top color (in fact I'm using it on a MiG-23 right now). Compounding the confusion, swatches I've found on line for C62 are either the same light green or a light gray!
I haven't found any photos of this aircraft. I see it depicted in models as a light gray bottom, not a light green bottom. Many instructions for other kits of solid green Tonys that I've found on line show bare metal bottoms.
I realize it's entirely possible that the details are lost to history, but I thought I'd post this in the off chance that someone might have some information. Does anyone know what Ichikawa's plane underside color was? Was light green (green gray?) ever used as an underside color?
Thanks!