UH-1N color?

Not to beat a dead horse or anything........................ 

But I just thought I'd post the UH-1N specs straight from the US Navy and Marine Corps paint manual for all those that want it straight from the horse's mouth.

Now let's all stop horsing around.

Play nice gents.   OOHRAH!!!

I believe MARFORCOM = MARine FORces COMmand

The HQ that controls where/when all Marines are trained, equipped, deploy, etc.  MARFORCOM is responsible for command, control and coordination of all Marines' air, ground and logistical operations.

By the way, it has nothing to do with modeling colors or working on 1:1 helos.  The colors are still the above FS#s whether you call them blue and gray or pink and purple.  Still the same Federal Standard paint #s either way.

No, I was not telling you, that you are wrong.

but what are the dates for 263?

SSgtD6152 wrote:

No, I did not have a brain fart! We use the same paint and yes we call it grey and blue, but for modeling you need to use the FS# for the guys that do not work on the 1/1's

Thats all fine and dandy but your  telling me im wrong im not, I was refering to the rearl aircraft thats what I was getting at.

I was just busting your chops

But yes for the model world its those bottles he told him about I didnt argue that

I used to be in 263

im with VMM-162 now

phrogs wrote:

SSgtD6152 wrote: The FS# that Art posted are right, You have not been to paint school have ya   Did you have a brain fart or something its still grey and blue   but I went to paint school back in 1998 but like I said I wasnt sure the exact terminoligy but its still blue  Or maybe you fellas out there in california use something different than we do over in the real corps on the east coast

No, I did not have a brain fart! We use the same paint and yes we call it grey and blue, but for modeling you need to use the FS# for the guys that do not work on the 1/1's

SSgtD6152 wrote:

The FS# that Art posted are right, You have not been to paint school have ya

Did you have a brain fart or something its still grey and blue

I went to paint school back in 1998 but like I said I wasnt sure the exact terminoligy but its still blue

Or maybe you fellas out there in Kalifornia use something different than we do over in the real corps on the east coast

Wait Wombold just lat moved like last year to the V-22 didnt he..  Now that name rings a bell.

phrogs wrote:

The actual colors are a light grey and a blue I cant remember off hand the exact designation thats on the paint cans but If you really want it I can get it at work tomorrow. All  Marine aircraft are suppost to be painted the same grey blue shades what you will see happen is the blue fades and looks almost grey its not a very good paint and it doesnt weather well at all but we are not allowed to paint entire aircraft ourselves because it changes the weight and balance of the plane due to the ammount of paint. ok I said to much but I wanted you to get the idea. hit me up if you want to the actual names of the colors the marine corps uses on the aircraft then maybe this will help others to paint them corectly. The FS# that Art posted are right, You have not been to paint school have ya' Hell I can get you some paint chip samples!   later   johnny

The FS# that Arty posted are right, You have not been to paint school have ya'

 Say hi to SSgt Wombold  for me.

The actual colors are a light grey and a blue I cant remember off hand the exact designation thats on the paint cans but If you really want it I can get it at work tomorrow.

All  Marine aircraft are suppost to be painted the same grey blue shades what you will see happen is the blue fades and looks almost grey its not a very good paint and it doesnt weather well at all but we are not allowed to paint entire aircraft ourselves because it changes the weight and balance of the plane due to the ammount of paint.

ok I said to much but I wanted you to get the idea. hit me up if you want to the actual names of the colors the marine corps uses on the aircraft then maybe this will help others to paint them corectly.

Hell I can get you some paint chip samples!

later

johnny

Thanks for the fast reply. I have been looking for a color guide on-line. Now I don't need one.

The current version UH-1Ns are actually two-tone gray.  The upper surfaces are darker, with lighter lower surfaces.  The lighter gray is Light Ghost Gray, FS36375 (Testors 1728) and the darker gray is Medium Gray, FS35237 (Testors 1721). 

Looks like this:

Good luck.