F4U-7 French Navy Corsairs

[Cherrybomber13]

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.

I am having trouble finding what the cockpit and interior wheel well , landing gear and inside wheel covers were on the French Navy Corsairs in 1952. Was it yellow or green zinc chromate or other color, Where the wheel struts white? tail hook?

[Snake45]

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.

I am having trouble finding what the cockpit and interior wheel well , landing gear and inside wheel covers were on the French Navy Corsairs in 1952. Was it yellow or green zinc chromate or other color, Where the wheel struts white? tail hook?

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.

[Cherrybomber13]

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

[Stoney]

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[Jerry O'Neill]

Ola la!

[Stoney]

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.