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Another quick FAA Corsair IV question


alvin5182

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Gents:

Any thoughts/evidence with regard to wing gun muzzle coverings. Have seen continuous strips covering all three muzzles on either side as well some individual muzzle coverings. Any ideas on colours/types used on GSB finished machines. I am modelling KD572 and have the photo of it going in to the crash barriers on HMS Colussus. Unfortunately the photo is inconclusive.

Alvin5182

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Red was used before arrival in the Pacific (for example KD763 HMS Colossus, May 1945). Like Miggers, I'm uncertain about whether red was used in the Pacific.

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Two things with this, first and foremost, red dope is very dull and the patches themselves quite small so they'd have been unlikely to have been mistaken for Japanese insignia but... ...more importantly... ...isn't that picture of KD572 taking the barrier a post-war picture, in which case the twichiness about being mistaken for Japanese would have gone away?

Wez

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