Model Forum / General / Models / February 2008

Model Masters Ford Light Engine blue is pretty close and has been used
successfully for the USAAC Blue.
Hub

Here's a photo of a restored B-10 in the Air Force Museum:
http://www.vectorsite.net/avb26_2.jpg
A close-up of the nacelle makes it look like fairly bright blue:
http://airpower.callihan.cc/images/Early/02usafm-b10.jpg

Pat

On Jan 30, 3:29 pm, "cr...@earthlink.net" <cr...@earthlink.net> wrote:

Finding the color of vintage aircraft can be a real challenge.  Some
museums do a better job of restoration than others. You cannot always
believe what you see in a museum.

Color photographs, especially color photographs printed in books and
mags, are an even worse situation.  Most color films do not ordinarily
do a good job on accurately reproducing color, and the color in a
photographic print also depends on the printing paper and process.

It is even worse when a color print, neg, or slide is prepared for
printing on a printing press.  The printing process can REALLY distort
colors. Even with the same prepress operations, the color can vary
during the printing run!

So as far as I am concerned, "close" is good enough.

On Jan 30, 4:29 pm, "cr...@earthlink.net" <cr...@earthlink.net> wrote:

Hi:

On Jan 30, 4:29 pm, "cr...@earthlink.net" <cr...@earthlink.net> wrote:

Hi:

    The color you are looking for is Light Blue 23, used on aircraft
fuselages from about 1932. It was replaced by "True Blue" about 1938.
It is shown in a sample in Robert D. Archer's "The Official Monogram
U.S. Army Air Service & Air Corps Color Guide". I believe Poly-Scale
is the only outfit to ever include the color in their paint line.  I
haven't seen any comparison the FSW595 standards.

                                             Bill Shuey