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VanceCrozier:
There's that darn oil can. Jeremias i did notice in a couple of other photos that the upper surfaces of the ailerons were still blue too, so you are probably correct. I like the detail of the buzz number still over blue.
Another nice detail in Vance's pic is that somebody stripped off the "Fuerza Aerea Argentina" painted tin from the nose, must be pinned up in a pub in Norfolk.
Gosh I would love to build a Pucara, but the time frame of this GB just is not in my zone. I run up to the 50's.
No Pucara was painted in blue, (just the undersides in light blue) what yu see is just the unpainted parts in anodized aluminium.
Here is some dta from th 1/48 Aconcgua kit (the guy from Aconcagua have an exelent research sistem)
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"When inducted into the Argentine Air Force (F.A.A.) The
IA.58 Pucara were delivered in natural metal showing different tones of
anodized aluminum.
An exception was A-518 which was painted tan and brown for it's sale to
Maritania but after the sale was canceled it retained these colors for the rest
of it's sevice life, and AX-04 of Fligth
Test Center prototipe, painted gloss withe and red.
In 1982 during the Falklands / Malvinas conflict camoflage
was hastely applied without an established pattern ,due to this no two aircraft
were painted alike.
The standard markings and insignias although usually tried to be masked
over but were mostly over painted and parcially reapplied .
The inscription "FUERZA AEREA ARGENTINA" was masked over in a
retangle and when unmasked displayed a natural metal retangular backround.
The control surfaces on the mayority of all aircraft were left unpainted
not to disturb their static balance.
All aircraft were painted green and brown of various tones aproximately
FS. 34258 and FS. 33448 with bottom sides painted FS.35450 ( A-511, A-512,
A-532, A-533 and A-537)
A-515 , A-536 , A-555 were painted in gloss automotive paint with darker
tones aproximately FS10152 reddish brown and green aproximately FS 14128 with
bottom surfaces in natural metal..
On some aircraft yellow I.D. stripes were painted on the upper and
bottom wing surface starting from the wing attach angle one meter outwards and
the rudder was also painted yellow.(A-511, A-532, A-533)
Pucara A-549 was painted in the lightest tones, tan FS 33448 light green
FS 34558 and the bottom light blue FS 35622 with an irregular motted pattern
applied."
Best regards
Jere