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pibber colors questions - help please!!!

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pibber colors questions - help please!!!
Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, December 14, 2003 6:26 PM
okay, for the 3rd time (the first 2 times were when i was approx 16... 12 yrs ago) i am building tamia's pibber. fun fun fun..i have a question about colors. now, on the box and in several photos from the net, it looks like olive drab, by testors, the box is tellin me xf-58 olive green, by tamia, which is a different color altogether. im lost, i remember i did one of my first 2 with olive drab, and the other with a dark green, little brothers leave behind little evidence of these 2 first projects, so i have nothing to look back on. so, can someone help me out on this?? i jus wanna know what colors were used on these boats, i know sometimes there are varriations of these things, for different reasons, so i decided to ask... also the bottom of the boat as well, i know it can be the redish color, or balck, any others..
thanks alot..

p.s. i never knew it would be so difficult to get back into this after 10 or so years..hehehe.
  • Member since
    February 2003
  • From: Seattle
Posted by Papa-Echo-64 on Sunday, December 14, 2003 8:03 PM
Testors Modelmaster has a 'fadded' OD Huey color that should look right for that Pibber!

Good luck!

Straighten up and fly right.....
  • Member since
    January 2003
Posted by Jeff Herne on Monday, December 15, 2003 7:10 AM
Olive drab paint changed (obviously) from WW2 to Vietnam...in WW2 the colors changed twice, but by Vietnam the color had been standardized as FS# 34102.

In WW2, it was 34087 by the time the ANA standards were adopted.

This color is more of a green than the WW2 OD, in fact, it's identical to the US Pre-war color of Forest Green...

Hope that helps.

Jeff Herne
Modelwarships.com
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    November 2005
Posted by Anonymous on Monday, December 15, 2003 6:36 PM
thx guys..im lokin at pics on the net, the nbox etc..im trying to match by eye the colors, i have testors field drab, and that looks realy close to the color i have been seeing... in your oppinions, would it really make all that much of a difference as far as acurracy if i used this color??...i remember seeing pictures of these boats years back, and they were more of a dark green, which is how i did my 2nd one... sorry for the mass of questions, i just want to be sure... also, jeff, the fs # u gave me is testors medium green, it looks reeeal green...would you happen to have any pics or refences from where you got that color..??

thx again guys for the help..
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