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Title: new screenies
Post by: 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~~
Title: new screenies
Post by: Edbert1 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.
Title: new screenies
Post by: BlkKnit on July 19, 2005, 01:12:11 PM: Quote
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?
Title: new screenies
Post by: Krusty 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.
Title: new screenies
Post by: Edbert1 on July 19, 2005, 01:28:15 PM: Quote
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.
Title: new screenies
Post by: Greebo 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.

(http://www.gfg06.dial.pipex.com/yellowgreenswatch.jpg)

(http://www.gfg06.dial.pipex.com/gunbayphoto.jpg)
Title: new screenies
Post by: Edbert1 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.