A little eye candy for you hog fans

[CeeEff]

I found this page and thought some of you might like to see the pics because ...
Real men fly blue airplanes....      

www.ratomodeling.com/references/f4u_bu17995/

[Saxman]

Beautiful machine, but it drives me crazy when they use glossy paint on these restorations (and don't even match the colors!). Wartime aircraft all used non-specular paint, the exception being the upper wing surfaces of the tricolor machines (semi-gloss sea blue). I don't think I've ever seen a walkway strip like that on a wartime machine, either.

[CeeEff]

True story on the paint job, not to mention the incorrect canopy, tail wheel and other details.
Still love seeing these birds restored.

Oh yeah, if it was a Marine bird there would be mud, dirt and pieces if grass stuck here and there from low altitude strafing passes.

[R 105]

 

[Vraciu]

Beautiful machine, but it drives me crazy when they use glossy paint on these restorations (and don't even match the colors!). Wartime aircraft all used non-specular paint, the exception being the upper wing surfaces of the tricolor machines (semi-gloss sea blue). I don't think I've ever seen a walkway strip like that on a wartime machine, either.

Yeah.  That paint job is just off.  Is it also the color that's wrong?   I am unable to get past the mental block of VF-17 bird without insignia bars.    The roundel-only Birdcage Hawgs always come to my mind as a grayer shade of blue....like Ken Walsh's.   

[Saxman]

There were two camouflage schemes used on the birdcage Corsairs:

Originally they used the same non-specular blue-gray (FS35189) over light gray (FS36440) as the F4F and other early-war aircraft.

Later, they switched to the tricolor as later used on the F4U-1A: non-specular sea blue (FS35042) upper fuselage, semi-gloss sea blue (FS25042) upper wing surfaces, intermediate blue (FS35164) vertical surfaces and outer wing panel undersides, and insignia white (FS37880) under surfaces.

As for the colors themselves, I think the non-specular and semi-gloss sea blues had a slightly greenish tint. Do NOT trust the Simmers Paint Shop RGB values! Non-spec and semi-gloss sea blue are the same color, the only difference is one is a slightly glossy color, while the other is matte (as indicated by the first number). For some reason SPS makes them two entirely different shades of blue