I have another model that has a deadline on it, and it's turning into a bear. I need to convert a AcMin B-25C/D to a Marine PBJ-1D used as a weapons test bed for bombs, rockets and torpedoes. It is painted in standard early war blue-gray, but appears a little darker in the lower parts that stay out of the sun much of the time. I'd like to do this color and then gradually lighten it toward the top. Does anyone know who makes the best of this color? I'd like to use an acrylic, but an oil-based enamel will do.
This is a model where I have a lot of open hatches and the oopen bomb bay, and covered in PE parts, some large, with a True Details resin torpedo between the bomb doors (they carried them with the doors open because the Mk. 13 aerial torpedo was too long. They never used them in combat. But does anyone know what color these torpedoes were? It's obviously two-toned, not the white-and-red like they always had them in the models of our youth, but something more subtle, like gray and NM, at least, that's based on the fish I can see under the airplane in the photo, and it's in heavy shadow.
Tom