LetLetLet ~ Warplanes
Let Let Let - Warplanes => Combat Warplanes => Topic started by: No.1 on May 29, 2010, 06:23:26 PM
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Dear friends,
it is my pleasure to forward you an email from David Aiken :-flo
Aloha All,
Factory fresh meatballs match the US Insigina red FS31136...as it 'faded' the meatballs DARKENED which was matched in 1967 to the attached decal (LONG out of business). Many have tried and none have succeeded to make such "six month combat" decals.
Be wary of the gray instruction sheet as a couple of things are in error...
1) yellow surrounds or yellow wing bandages (which were really WHITE on a cloudy day)...
2) a "RED surround to a white surround"... we finally got a better LOOK at a GREEN surround to a white surround of a meatball on a plane being prepared for an overall upper surface green plane.
The 1967 study may have been early yet very leading edge research by Don Thorpe.
Cheers,
David Aiken, a Director: Pearl Harbor History Associates, Inc. http://www.pearlharbor-history.org/
Credit:
color research by Don Thorpe
IPMS-San Francisco
:-flo