David Rapasi Posted July 6, 2012 Share Posted July 6, 2012 (edited) A VT(N) 90 Accurate Miniatures TBM-3D with most of the base colors. Dave Edited July 23, 2012 by David Rapasi Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ian Cooper Posted July 6, 2012 Share Posted July 6, 2012 Those old WW2 US Navy blues do look nice. This'll be lovely when the decals go on. Thanks for sharing David. Ian Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Falcon50EX Posted July 7, 2012 Share Posted July 7, 2012 Are you going with flat sea blue or black for the undersides?? BTW, Ultracast makes an excellent Flame Dampening exhaust stack for the TBM kits. david Quote Link to post Share on other sites
David Rapasi Posted July 7, 2012 Author Share Posted July 7, 2012 Since it is unknown what color they were painted, I thought I would take a different approach. Early in the war British testing found gloss paints were harder to detect than flat paint with search lights. Since Gloss Sea Blue was being applied to aircraft at the time these aircraft were modified for night missions, I thought I would paint it Gloss Sea Blue on the bottom and the added radome. In the only photo I have of 57, there doesn’t appear to be flame dampeners on the exhaust. If I go with a different plane it doesn’t appear to be to difficult to make the flame dampeners. Dave Quote Link to post Share on other sites
David Rapasi Posted July 9, 2012 Author Share Posted July 9, 2012 ANA 623 Gloss Sea Blue was applied to the lower surfaces and the radome. The white areas on the side of the fuselage below the wings and horizontal stabilizer were painted over with ANA 608 Intermediate Blue. Dave Quote Link to post Share on other sites
David Rapasi Posted July 13, 2012 Author Share Posted July 13, 2012 A covering of salt to start the weathering process. The paint on these aircraft is faded but doesn’t appear to be heavily weathered. Dave Quote Link to post Share on other sites
David Rapasi Posted July 23, 2012 Author Share Posted July 23, 2012 Finished paint job. The white markings and insignia areas were over-painted with NS Sea Blue. Dave Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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