Wed May 15, 2013 1:50 pm
Wed May 15, 2013 1:59 pm
Mark Allen M wrote:So you say this particular C-47 was assigned to the 75th TCS, do you know what group? Or did I not see that noted here somewhere? I have many, many photos of wartime C-47's that may help in your search for the scheme your plane carried.
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Wed May 15, 2013 7:00 pm
The Inspector wrote:The OD/Green over neutral gray is 'as delived, F.O.B.' from the factory. The paint mfr is not really important if you can take an inspection cover to your local auto paint jobber store, using a spectrometer they can match it exactly and mix anywhere from a nail paint bottle size up to a swimming pool of that exact shade and tint.
Have you tried contacting Weeks to see if the paint mfr is noted in the log book when it was painted 'aircraft painted with XYZ brand paint 2/17/2007' or whatever.
Wed May 15, 2013 7:50 pm
Wed May 15, 2013 10:28 pm
shrike wrote:For my two cent's worth, if no authentic name or nose art can be documented, I would go with a very generic 'as issued' scheme (and by Bastogne, invasion stripes should either be all-gone or underside only) to best represent the aircraft and all the men that depended on her.
Thu May 16, 2013 8:09 am
flightsimer wrote:shrike wrote:For my two cent's worth, if no authentic name or nose art can be documented, I would go with a very generic 'as issued' scheme (and by Bastogne, invasion stripes should either be all-gone or underside only) to best represent the aircraft and all the men that depended on her.
That's been the plan so far.
There deffinately will not be any stripes as stripes were only painted on before Normandy, which afterwards were always in some stage of removal.
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