Author Topic: new screenies (Read 386 times)

NUTTZ · « **on:** July 19, 2005, 12:41:48 PM »

Are AWSOME, Hats off to the skinners and HTC crew, Waffle and the rest you's did an oustanding job

~~NUTTZ~~

Edbert1 · « **Reply #1 on:** July 19, 2005, 01:09:43 PM »

They are beeyooootifullll.

But what's up with the yellow wheel-wells? I thought the US planes were zinc chromate.

BlkKnit · « **Reply #2 on:** July 19, 2005, 01:12:11 PM »

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Originally posted by Edbert
They are beeyooootifullll.

But what's up with the yellow wheel-wells? I thought the US planes were zinc chromate.

You never seen yellow zinc chromate?

Krusty · « **Reply #3 on:** July 19, 2005, 01:12:22 PM »

That's the zinc chromate... It changed colors through the war, and different plants might have mixed up different pigmentation... So for the p47, that color is accurate.

Edbert1 · « **Reply #4 on:** July 19, 2005, 01:28:15 PM »

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Originally posted by BlkKnit
You never seen yellow zinc chromate?

Guess not, it was always much greener than it seems to be in those screenies, albeit a yellowish green. These seem to have very little green in the yellow is all.

Greebo · « **Reply #5 on:** July 20, 2005, 06:21:13 AM »

Apart from the cockpit, which was chromate green, the zinc chromate paint used on Thunderbolts was very yellow. I've got half a dozen wartime colour shots showing this, of which the one below is the clearest. Also I found a couple of written references to the yellow colour and even this colour swatch.

Be careful if you are looking at today's P-47 warbirds. They've probably been repainted lots of times since WW2 with whatever chromate paint was either available or FAA approved.

Edbert1 · « **Reply #6 on:** July 20, 2005, 07:49:00 AM »

Cool Greebo, thanks. I knew it was not a mistake, just wanted to know more since you don't see that color much.