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No conversion necessary - the Commando and HC.4 variants are basically the same... That's the ex-RAF HAR.3A which I referred to in my initial post above...

Same as the original Fleet Air Arm Sea King finish at the time - BS381C:633 RAF Blue-Grey.

'Suzy G' was depicted on at least one decal sheet with the name panel in red - when the colour photos of the 'Bottisham Four' quite clearly show it was actually either dark green or olive drab:

The first six (4510-4515) Pakistan Navy Mk.45 Sea Kings from 1974 were based on the HAS.1 - five-bladed tail rotor, nothing in front of the engine intakes. One was lost in 1986, and in 1989 an ex-Royal Navy HAS.5 was acquired as 4516 to replace it - six-bladed tail rotor, larger dorsal radome. Since then, further 'secondhand' airframes have been acquired, including an ex-RAF HAR.3A (as 4517), and ex-Qatari Commando Mk.3 (including 50, 54, 55). Five and six-bladed tail rotors are not interchangeable. The box-like EAPS filter is an optional fit, which can

Photo of his P-47N here: https://iwojimamodels.com/2024/04/22/photos-of-the-week-captain-urban-l-drew-413th-fighter-squadron-414th-fighter-group/

42-106811 'Suzy G':

According to Aces & Wingmen (Danny Morris), Drew was flying: 42-106778 E2-G when he scored his first 'kill' - a Ju-52 on the ground; 42-106925 E2-J for his second, an air-to-air shootdown of an Me109; 42-106811 E2-H 'Suzy G' for his second air-to-air, another Me109. Two other P-51Ds are recorded as having been flown by him. His P-47N 'Detroit Miss II' was 488492, coded 682 (photo in book)

I agree with Bob and Geoff - my thought on reading your post earlier was that as the areas you're painting are not immediately adjacent to the decals, any visual difference will be minimal, if noticeable at all; especially considering that the spinner and wingtips, not being flat surfaces, will reflect light differently anyway... ....as for the hardware store paint-matching idea, I forget exactly what colour I was after (a shade of green, I think) , but a while ago I tried something similar without success, as the 'swatch' wasn't large enough for the scanning device to read properl

Article from the latest Air Commando Journal: https://aircommando.org/early-pave-low-operationsproject-honey-badger/

Early P-2 Neptune finish was FS15042 Glossy Sea Blue - plenty of info here: https://ipms.nl/artikelen/nedmil-luchtvaart/vliegtuigen-l/vliegtuigen-l-lockheed-neptune ....and similarly on the P-3 Orion here: https://ipms.nl/artikelen/nedmil-luchtvaart/vliegtuigen-l/vliegtuigen-l-lockheed-orion

The real Slim Shady?

The owner/producer of Model Alliance -and subsequently Air Graphics - decals is known for making errors such as that typo, and not just in the painting/decalling guides, but sometimes also the decals themselves... ...as for the 'confusion' regarding RAF Dark Green, the colour was mis-numbered as :641 when BS381C was initially introduced - but as stated in the 'Tactical Aircraft' section in my post above, it was eventually corrected to become :241...

The site these screenshots came from is currently unavailable, but fortunately I have some pages saved for offline reference (click to view larger):

Unfamiliar with the program, saw the pic, immediately thought "looks like a crop duster"... ....which a few minutes' research then revealed is because it's basically exactly what it is!