Ahoy mates. I'm working on my USS Hornet at Leyte Gulf. I know that the TBFs and Sb2Cs were in the three color camo. I'm curious to know it the F6Fs were in 3 color also.

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Gator, I can honestly say that I can't find a reference photo at all to help us out with this one. . .maybe Merlin and the wingnuts over at Aeroscale can lend an answer.
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It's hard to get the wing nutz to answer a question. Best guess is they were still three color camo. The F6F book I have shows one in 3 color in May of 1944 and the next time they talk about color is 1945 navy blue.

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When it comes to Hellcats, I've almost always gone with the Dark Sea blue topside and a real light grey almost white underneath. I have seen the 3 tone scheme , so i don't think you can go wrong either way. I thnk in 45 they went with all over dark sea blue. The hard part for me was decideing on gloss or flat

Thanks guys. I can not get anyone to answer my post at Aeroscale. Friendly bunch of guys.

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