Hi all! I’m working on Hasegawa’s 1/48 G4M Betty bomber. In the instructions, for the color of the propeller, it says to pain them “Propeller Color”. Do you know if that would be the same reddish-brown used on Zero’s, of perhaps the greenish color I’ve seen on KI-84 Hayate’s? Flat Black?
If anybody has knowledge about what color “propeller color” is, I’d be very grateful if you woul share it!
Thank you,
John
the pictures ive looked at show a light color on the props, a light grey color it looks like.
it depends on what markings you are going with. some used either black or brown prop/propeller.
“Propeller Color” is the actual label-name of the color, but I don’t remember the brand-name… Generally, they black, reddish-brown, or grey, some were even unpainted aluminum…
EDIT:
Mr. Color, # 131… Actual color is Reddish-Brown, and a skoshi-bit darker shade than Tamiya’s offering for Red-Brown XF-64…
Tamiya’s Hull Red…
I used aluminium colour for the front of the prop and Tamiya XF-67 ( red brown) for the back on my Betty.
which is posted also somewhere here on FSM.
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Based on my time as naval Adjutant on the Zuiho, early Naval a/c had natural aluminum color props with the backs painted black (to reduce glare on the crew)…about mid-1943’ish the props (and often the spinners) were painted a reddish brown color…
The aluminum ones had red lines for warning indicators and the brown ones had non-slip gelb lines…
Satch compared the Gunze Propeller Color to the Tamiya line for me recently and reported back that it’s closer to Tamiya’s XF-10 Flat Brown than to red brown. Considering how red XF-10 is (seriously, it seems redder than their red brown to me), I’m not surprised.
Vailejo also makes a good prop color red brown but i cant remember right now what the number is
Lemme guess… The Skipper of Zuiho was fluent in German, you were fluent in Japanese, you two absolutely hated each other and only spoke your native languages when you had to talk to each other… He’d say something in Japanese, you’d reply to him in German…
It reminds of a certain Japanese I-Boat Kaigun Chūsa and a Kreigsmarine U-Boot Korvettenkapitän who attacked Hollywood in 1941… Think a guy in beach-house shot at them with a 40mm AA gun he had in his yard, and they were captured by an Army Air Corps pilot who forced them to take him to Tokyo…
You ever cross paths with the guy on the far left?
I have two colours listed for the Prop blades and spinner
Vallejo Model Colour 70940
Vallejo Model Colour 70871
Use the one that looks right! I think both are correct depending on factory and type.
Also, they were used for camo as well
James
natural alum. makes sense. the pics i looked at just showed a light color, i was thinking light grey.
My name’s Wild Bill Kelso, and don’t you forget it!
The red-brown late war propeller color, with yellow tips.
Plastic-Surgeon, Nice Betty! I really like it!
Mine is the G4M2 model, from like '44 or '45 IIRC the decal options in the instructions. But I hope mine turns out as well as yours did! I agree with the kit going together well - I also made masking tape seatbelts but did the rest OOB.
Thanks for all the ideas everybody. Seems like the consensus is to go with the reddish-brown color, so that is what I’ll do. Thanks again!