Now that I know that is is common practice amongst us to have more than one type of aircraft I was wondering haow many different paint schemes the F4U Corsair had? I know of course of the tri scheme with dark blue, medium blue and isiginia white. Did the Corsair ever come in overall blue like some Helldivers? Maybe just dark blue over white or over grey? Wings Pallette website does not list the Corsair. Thanks for any tips.
It does… take a look.
The one with japanese markings looks kinda weird, I think I’ll build one like that! 
VA, how the heck did I miss that? Thanks mate.
The paint shown is a “what if” of this A/C… Personally, I don’t do “what if” paints, but this one’s kinda interesting and I’m getting bored with blue Corsairs…
I vaguely remember seeing a gull gray and white version at some point… Does anyone else remember that? Of course there have been a number of racing paint jobs.
No problem dude, glad to help
AU-1’s were painted gull grey over white. Some served at Quantico. Of course, there is the early war blue grey over white scheme.
Yes, there’s photos of an AU-1 that was painted in a gull grey and white scheme during the sixties, I believe. There is an illustration in Francillon’s Vietnam book of an F3D Skyknight with the same scheme, confirmed by the same markings on the Falcon 1/72 kit. I don’t recall seeing the F4U in an Atlantic I or II scheme, but it’s possible.
If you want something exotic, there are some interesting schemes for F4Us and FG-1s that participated in the 1969 Soccer War between Honduras and El Salvador.
In US service the F4U started its’ career in Blue Gray over Light Gray. Production then switched to the Tri-Color scheme of Sea Blue/Intermediate Blue over White. Then they switched to the overall Sea Blue Scheme. Some Night Fighter F4Us were overall Flat Black in Korea. As stated above the final scheme worn in US service was Light Gull Gray over White. And then you have foreign users…
Fleet Air Arm Corsairs were Slate Grey and Dark Sea Grey over Sky, a very good looking scheme.
The prototype XF4U-1 was silver with yellow wings.
The French also operated Corsairs in a gloss blue gray scheme.
Which are my favorite and the subject of my Tamiya Corsair in the Corsairs GB.
a news clipping for the Polka dot corsairs
www.combatreform2.com/killerbees3.htm
about 1/4 way scrolled down.
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Looking forward to seeing how yours comes together! [tup]
If you want I can post here some great pics of the Argentinean navy corsairs, the F4U-5N and NL, the schemmes were overall sea blue, and gray/white.
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Jeremias