O-46 in the Philippines 12/8/41 - colors

[Harold K]

Rather like the lower one in the box art, John?

http://www.pavlamodels.cz/images/air...72050_krab.htm

Problem is, I want to build one in wartime marks, which I suspect might have been OD over gray. Of course, "suspect" isn't good enough.

[JohnMacG6]

That's the one, Harold

Never seen ANY pics of one of these a/c in camo (in the Philippines at least). I suspect that IF they were camouflaged they would probably have been done in the same way the Philippine P-35As were camo'd - i.e. a quick coat of OD over the upper surfaces, without priming the surface first, which lead to much peeling of the paint, while the undersurfaces remained in natural metal and the tail codes were retained in either black, yellow or white.
Pure speculation tho', and there are pics of B-17s captured by the Japanese forces in the Islands still in overall natural metal finish so..........if the B-17s never got camo paint, it would seem quite reasonable that the O-46s maybe didn't either.