62 green applied. I went with 61 brown and 62 green over 63 gray for this one. Some guys believe that it was actually 70/71 greens used on top due to the darkness of the photos. I played around with some black/white photos of my tins of the paints in question. They all show up dark. I honestly believe it could’ve been in either scheme. I went with Aeromaster’s 61/62 suggestion simply because I like it and it’s different. Many references show this plane with blue undersides, unlike the majority of 51s which seem to have been given camo tops while maintaining the 63 undersides. It doesn’t make sense to me that some were painted blue while others weren’t. I left mine in 63 gray.
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