A solid step mating the fuselage halves and an interesting finding regarding the IPs' alignment, my friend @kahu!

George Blair, yep this is a place to get help/ Blue=Gray vs Intermediate Blue comes to mind.

Spiros and John, yes this is a solid step towards completing the model.

Looks like it is ready for the rest of the paint, David (@kahu). I have never had any luck with using decals for the red/white stripes on the tail, so I have been painting mine for a while. Yours will really look good when you peel off all of the tape.

Great painting, my friend @kahu!

David Odenwald (@kahu)
It's been a while since I have logged in on Imodeler. You have certainly made some good progress with your TBD. I also mask off the red / white stripes on the rudder and paint them on. I have had too many troubles with decals not wrapping completely around the rear of a rudder. It is a pain to do, but it sure looks 100 times better than an ill fitting decal does... and chances are the decal will start to flake away along the edges as it ages. I had several kits I built as a kid that this happened too after being suspended from the ceiling in my old bedroom for a few years. Not cool.

Did you ever figure out your Blue Gray color questions ? Just before Model Master was discontinued, they did come out with a Blue Gray color in the enamel range. But I don't know how successful you will be with trying to find it now. I have had goo luck with using MRP colors. They are an acrylic lacquer, and they offer the Blue Gray color.

PS: That was cool to check out the website for the Yorktown at Midway. Thanks for posting it up. It was a bit eerie looking at the various weapons that were still pointing up towards the sky, and being able to look into the hangar bay from the outside was incredible as well.

The fabric covered controls do look very nice this way, David @kahu
What kind of mixture did you use in the end.

David Odenwald (@kahu)
I really like how you painted the aileron. It looks really good like that. On most of my built Corsairs that are painted with Blue Gray, I try to lighten the fabric a little bit more than the surrounding metal clad sections. In many photos of the originals from back in the day, you can see this is more often the normal than not. I don't know if these TBD's would have been as stark of a difference, because most were pulled from front line service shortly after Midway, and used as training planes in Stateside OTU's.

Did you see that Hobby Boss is now coming out with a 1/48 scale TBD ? It's available at Squadron as a pre order item. I don't know if I'll pull the trigger on one or not yet. I still have 4 of the original Monogram versions in ye olde stash to someday / hopefully build. Also I found some MRP Blue Gray available at Sprue Brothers if by chance you are still looking for something to use. I like how their paint sprays. It's ready to go right out of the bottle.

Keep it going my friend !