P-38 J Lightning humbrol color

[Guest]

hi to all ! i would like to know which is the humbrol colour for the painting of the P-38 J .i will wait for your answers,thank you !

[flyjoe180]

Hi, Emmanuel. I'm unsure which kit you are using, but I have a 1/72 Airfix P38. The scheme on the instructions is as follows: 66 upper surfaces (Olive Drab), 176 lower surfaces (dark grey) and 81 (a zinc chromate yellowish colour) for the wheel wells.

Please note I have done no personal research on the colour scheme or the accuracy of the Airfix/Humbrol directions, so this is just a guide to help answer your question. There is plenty of colour and scheme information online which you can find easily, including official USAAF documentation. I know from researching a P51 green scheme and that of a P47, that there were variances even in the olive drab colour, of which Humbrol now make two or three shades.

I'm sure there are a few P38 builders among the members here, so check back regularly to see if they can help further. Cheers, look forward to maybe seeing your finished Lightning one day here.

[Guest]

well,thanks for the answer...i got the 1/48 academy one...and i want to paint it as p-38 J . i suppose it will be a metallic colour but i dont know which one...

metal cote or metallic?i dont want to paint it as olive drab(green one)...i will wait for answer.thank u.

[stona]

Now we know that you are planning on an uncamouflaged USAAF aircraft the surface was exactly that....unpainted. You are trying to represent the aluminium skin of the aircraft.

I don't do this using Humbrol paints but someone who does should be able to help you out soon.

Cheers

Steve

[Guest]

right...unpainted.but which humbrol paint is alu? pls let me know...

[AlanG]

Humbrol Metalcote 27001 Aluminium and 27002 Polished Aluminium

You can brush paint the metalcote and it can come out like this

http://www.scale-models.co.uk/planes-helicopters/11140-1-72-revell-p-47d-thunderbolt.html

Spraying would give a better finish

[Guest]

thanks a lot mate !

[Guest]

hi again,im on the painting step,so, i need a diagram or instructions how to paint the J version,i have painted all the plane with polished silver and i need info about in painting the rest of the aircraft,so if you could help me i would appreciate that,thank you !

e.g i need to paint the parts with black and i wonder if i would mask it firstly....see above please for info and istructions.

[Guest]

anybody???

[AlanG]

what paint did you use to paint the aluminium? if enamel then you could get away with just masking it. if it was acrylic then i would seal in the aluminium with klear before masking.