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I am building a 1/72 Brewster F2A-1 from Hobby 2000 #72064 (ex -Hasegawa), and my chosen scheme is aircraft BuAer 1396. Now after painting I'm uncertain if the wing commanders red fuselage band and the upper wing chevron had black stripes on the edges or not. I haven't found a photo of 1396, but 1389 has the black stripes on the chevron. But it seems that the chevron is lemon yellow, so I don't know if I can draw conclusions based on that. Were there any hard and fast rules concerning the painting of those black / white stripes? Also, about the propeller, should the front be in natural metal /painted aluminium with three coloured tips? There seems to be two versions when it comes to the backside colour, some have it entirely black, some 2/3 black. And what about the red yellow and navy tips, were they also on the black backside. I think I have seen a photo (not F2A) of a pre-war USN aircraft, and it had a black front side, the tips were not yellow, but red, yellow and navy. And to complicate things, the same 1389 photo shows the backside of the propeller which seems to be black, with single colour (yellow) tips, so the presumably the front side should have yellow tips too. And there's one thing too, Special Hobby's instructions for their 1/32 F2A-1 BuAer 1396 has 2/3 of the prop backside in maroon, not black. Couldn't find any information if maroon was used for that, but apparently it was used for something in the USN, as later it was incorporated into ANA colours as ANA 510.
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Good evening everyone, so glad the Matchbox group build is finally upon us! So sorry my other build isn't ready yet. I'll be back to begin with this one in a week or two...
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This is probably a very good opportunity to be motivated enough to attempt this. More on this (with pictures) later. 😉- 7 replies
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Hi all, I have the Accurate Miniatures Grumman F3F-2 kit to start but could do with some help on the finish/paint call outs. The instructions say the fuselage was aluminium and gives call outs for G.S. Aqueous 8/Humbrol 56/Xtra Color X142 amongst others. The instructions say the wings (and I assume the tailplanes although that is not mentioned) were "doped taunt and painted with silver lacquer" which the instructions call "Silver doped fabric" but aside from saying this resulted in a "highly reflective finish, noticeably brighter than the fuselage" it does not give a paint reference call out for it. So two part question, can I use anything from the Alclad 2 range for the aluminium finish, I know there are various types (Aluminium//Polished Aluminium/Airframe Aluminium/White Aluminium/Dark Aluminium) but I tend to associate these with modern fighter jets and don't know if appropriate for an inter-war biplane or should I stick with the callouts on the instruction sheet? And is there a paint I can use for the 'silver doped fabric' finish on the wings and I assume tailplanes? The one stipulation for this colour I suppose is that it must be brighter than the aluminium fuselage? Thanks in advance, Pete
