I have started working on my Monogram B-24G and I have decided to paint it in its olive drab livery. I am a little confuse as from the references I have, the olive is not the usual olive but more like tan. What is it really?
The “Tan” aircraft are in N. African livery… They’re not OD…
Thanks for your reply. But were they ever in OD as in B-17s?
Sure… OD over Neutral Grey was standard USAAF camouflage until 1944, even B-24s…
Look through the pages here…
http://images.google.com/images?gbv=2&ndsp=20&hl=en&q=B-24G&start=0&sa=N
You’ll see NMF and OD schemes all over…
I made a typo. It was a J and not a G mixing it up with my B-17G which is on my workbench as well. Im sure it wont matter as the liveries will be the same. Rather hard to find AMs though.
Constructor:
B-24D, E, F, G’s where of the D model the E, F, G where built by subcontractors, the H’s where the first to carry all of the subcontractors & main manufacturer by the same subtype designaiton, as for your B-24J it depends on which theater the bomber flew in, most J’s where bare metal but some of the earlier J’s where painted O.D. over Neutral Gray, the D style bombers where painted both O.D. or Sand (Desert Pink when faded) in the Meditrraniean Theater but O.D. in the others ETO & PTO
Revell made a D in 1/72 and mongram made the D and J in 1/48. I assume that’s your “G” is a “J”. The major difference is the nose - the latter has a full turret, like a tail turret. Anything prior to that comes in pretty much one flavor; od over gray, except for the ones that were tan. Late war Liberators, like the J, are often NMF.
I’ve had the privelege, plus $$ spent, to fly in the RO seat of the Collings Foundation Liberator. It was an Indian AF bird restored, That is a fine a/c. After climb to cruise, I left my perch and crawled to the nose turret. The nose wheel was still spinning as I went by it!
Speaking of the Collins Foundation, here’s a shot of their B-24J while it visited here in the Denver area last summer.
Ken
Academy does a B24D in 1/72 scale that’s not bad at all. They also do J’s, and H’s, and maybe a couple others.
gary