Warbird Information Exchange

I have a member of the museum who is building us a -7 for display. He asked about some colors on the paint. I was hoping the braintrust here could advise.

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Andrew King
Air Museum Director with no Museum to Direct
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To the best of my knowledge, the F4U-7s were painted at the factory exactly the same as the AU-1s and F4U-5s that preceded them: Overall GSB with NSSB (or a flatcoat) antiglare panel. Cockpit was Interior Green (FS 34151) with black above the consoles. Landing gear and wheels would have been a silver or silver-gray paint; in US service these were usually painted GSB at the first repaint (NEVER white, except perhaps on some of the AU-1s that lasted long enough to be repainted in the Gull Gray/White scheme). Gear door inners were GSB. I'm not 100% sure about the gear well inners but probably Interior Green. These also got squirted in GSB at first repaint in USN/USMC service and when building a model that's usually the way I do them just out of laziness.

Thanks Snake!... that's what I thought. I am more familiar with the WW2 vintage ones.

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Andrew King
Air Museum Director with no Museum to Direct
Open to Suggestions

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I parked my SNJ next to the hangar that F4U-7 was in in 1980, it belonged to Gary Harris, now at the Tillimock museum, OR last I heard, but re-painted to a USN scheme.

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