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underwing stuff colors Curtiss SB2C Helldiver


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I'm assembling an Airfix 1/72 SB2C Helldiver.  For underwing stuff, and internal ordnance, I've figured out that iron bombs can be painted OD, and it seems as if rockets can, too. 

 

As for drop tanks, the pictures vary considerably, OD, bare aluminum, white when the undersides are white, blue when the undersides are blue.   For a sea blue/intermediate blue/white airplane, any ideas as to what colors are usable?  The artwork I've found for the particular airplane Airfix is modelling, nobody's depicted rockets/bombs/drop tanks. 

 

Thanks, folks.

Edited by peter havriluk
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rockets were usually painted white or left in unpainted steel.

there was also a radar pod that often gets mistaken for a drop tank  : drop tanks are usually carried in pairs. :)

 

ANA 601 is basically flat (matte) white.

for ANA 606 & 607 sea blue I use Testos 4660 or 1111

for ANA 608 Intermediate Blue I use Pollyscale  Great Northern Sky Blue with a little white (this is actually a color for locomotives)

 

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