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I'm in the midst of assembling a Tamiya B-339 Brewster Buffalo as a Finnish aircraft.  Aftermarket decal set helped with the exterior colors, bur I'm at a loss for the non-exterior coloration.  My guess is to use US Navy colors.- - -   Which were?  

 

Any advice or clarification will be gratefully appreciated. 

 

Thanks!

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I highly recommend you peruse this thread at Britmodeller:

https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234998703-questions-about-the-finnish-buffalo-239/

 

Scroll a bit less than halfway down the thread and you'll find a post from Jim Maas, who has more expertise on the Buffalo than any other modeler on the planet.

 

Overall cockpit color: aluminum (-ium), with forward upper side panels in black; instrument panel in black. There's a link in his post to a b/w photo that shows the black areas quite clearly.

 

Don't let anyone tell you that the cockpit was Interior Green or green zinc chromate: this color didn't come into use in the Buffalo cockpit until the F2A-3.

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