OK, my friends, the answer to this is very important to me because the finished product is going to have a very critical audience. I want to build a 1/48 PBJ-1D used for weapons testing in the summer of 1943 by the Marines (as were virtually all of the navalized B-25s). What is the proper color? I assume the belly to be white, or something like 36622. But what of the upper part. Blue-gray out of a bottle just doesn’t seem right. I know it’ll be sunbleached on the top, gradually getting darker down the sides. But what’s a good acylic mix to start with, and which version of the national insignia should I use?
Also, I’m still having trouble tracking down color for the Mk. XIII aerial torpedo (which, though tested extensively stateside, was never once used operationally by the PBJ, according to the records). I’ve got as many color combinations as references. I was thinking of a buffed, say, stainless steel color with a gloss gull gray warhead? Anyone else got a better idea? I’ll take it.
Thanks for always coming through on those rare occasions when I’m serious.
Tom
Tom
Do you know what squadron you are representing? The Navy museum has a PBJ fininshed sea blue/intermediate blue/white. Another museum has finished their PBJ with a white bottom and what could be intermediate blue top. The squadron pictures I found look to be two toned. Everything I have ever read says the two tone scheme is blue gray over light gray. The Monogram color guide has three different chips for blue gray.Testors has a blue gray close to one of the color chips. Can the people you are buildiong this for not give you some guidance?
In addition to the tri-color scheme (non-specular sea blue/intermediate blue/flat white), I have seen pictures of OD/Neutral Grey PBJ-1s (much like the early PB4Y-1s) operating in the SWPA.