Half a dozen saturated colors with which American carrier aircraft were marked in the days when camouflage rules did not yet apply. Red, blue, green and yellow served to tell individual sections apart, and white and black for supplementary markings.
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Before the wartime finish came, American naval aircraft were conspicuous on purpose. Engine cowlings, stripes on the fuselage and the surfaces of the tail carried a color by which it could be seen at a glance from the deck which unit a machine belonged to. The six bottles in this box cover exactly such markings and have nothing to do with camouflage.
The foundation is a quartet of saturated tones: Insignia Red to the standard FS11136, also listed as ANA 509, then True Blue (FS15102, ANA 501), Willow Green (FS14187, ANA 503) and Lemon Yellow (FS13655, ANA 505). It was exactly among these that the distinction of individual sections within a squadron alternated, so on one model you will usually meet only one of them, while on a diorama with several machines all of them come into play.
The remaining pair has a more universal use. Insignia White (FS17875, ANA 511) belongs on national insignia, numerals and lettering, whereas Night Black (FS37038, ANA 604) on the anti-glare panel in front of the cockpit, on propeller blades and on small technical lettering. Both the ANA and the FS numbers are given with the shades, so the reference can easily be looked up in profile literature.
It is of most use to anyone building the biplanes and early monoplanes of the Navy and the Marine Corps who wants the colorful markings in the right tones and not just approximately mixed. The paints are supplied on their own; a model and tools are not included. Saturated tones generally have poorer covering power than gray ones, so it pays to lay a light base under them and to apply them in a thin layer several times over.
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