A-10 European One Dive Brake Color?

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Building the Academy 1/48 scale A-10 Thunderbolt. I want to build it with the dive brakes open and want to paint it in the European One colors.

I can’t find any photo reference material as to what the color of the open dive brakes are. Any help would be appreciated

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These are the only two images I could find showing the speed brakes deployed. My guess is you can either paint the insides of the brakes white or light gray. If I had my druthers though, I’d paint the insides of brakes insignia red.

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Looks like the 36081 Gray

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They can be painted either the FS36081 that Stik mentioned, or they can be painted to match the adjacent camouflage pattern. Same goes for the flap coves on European 1 aircraft.

That info comes from Fairchild drawing 160D900006, December 1978.

Edit: Is your Academy 1/48 A-10 an A-10A or A-10C? If it’s Academy’s new A-10C, I don’t think there have been any A-10Cs painted in European 1 camo.

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Thanks everyone!

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It is the Academy 1/48. Yeah, I know there aren’t any painted in the Euro 1 colors. But I decided I’m tired of painting various shades of grey US jets. I even bought the Tribute decals to change up the greys but I don’t find those to be a challenge. I may still change my mind and do grey… :slight_smile:

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I’m with you on the grey paint. I’m building that same Academy A-10C and making it their demo team aircraft with the SEA camo on it. Besides…you never know…maybe their next tribute aircraft will be done with the European 1, and with everything going on in Europe right now, they just might bring that color scheme back.

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Shout out to the OP!

Opened a can of good know;ledge and thanked sources for it.

Bill

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I actually found a Euro 1 camo A-10C that served in the first gulf war!

I saw Two Bobs Decals that had it and confirmed by doing a search on the serial number of the aircraft. 80-0186.

Here’s a link to info or pics of it; https://www.2951clss-gulfwar.com/piwigo/index.php?/category/1

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All A-10Cs started life as A-10As. A-10Cs are rebuilt surviving A-10As. Any A-10Cs that fought in 1991 were A-10As at that time.

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Yup. 80-0186 was still an A-10A in 1991 when it wore the European 1 camo. It originally entered AF service in 1980.

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Thanks for the clarafication gents!!!