Chance-Vought O2U-3 Colors

[tigertony100]

Hi all! I need your help to discern the colors of this black and white photograph to apply it in a model. This photo is from the Mexican Air Force. The upper part of the wings I do not know if it is yellow. There is a program that tells you what colors they are and you apply it in CMYK in Photoshop, but I can not find it anymore. Maybe Don Boose with his knowledge of the Aviation of that time can help me. Any help will be welcome. Regards,Tony.

[Don Boose]

Sorry, Tony, but I have not been able to find out the upper wing color of the O2U-2M Corsairs purchased by Mexico or the Mexican-built Corsarios Azcárate O2U-4A. It is possible that there is a color illustration of this aircraft hidden away in my back issues of Air Enthusiast or other publication that I have acquired over the years, but I haven't found it.

It seems very likely to me that the upper wing was indeed painted yellow, but I do not have any evidence one way or the other.

I did come across these two sites with additional images (but you probably came across them yourself in your search):
https://www.armedconflicts.com/Vough...carate-t204693
Con las alas en mi pecho: LOS CORSARIOS MEXICANOS

Alamy photo service has a number of images, such as this one: https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-vo...-85903461.html

If you Google Alamy Mexican O2U, you will find several good images. None in color, alas.

Good luck with your search.

Don

[Butelczynski]

I bet it was yellow.Like all other governments at the time I'm sure Mexico opted for lowest possible price for those.Factory would use whatever paints they had in abundance,most lieky yellow/silver dope combination.

Mind you that color would fade a bit and maybe change hue in hot and constantly sunny weather there.Yellow painted agro Soviet planes changed changed in time from faint yellow egg like to near pumpkin orange.

[ashevilleangler]

I found a link to an online colorizer.

https://demos.algorithmia.com/colorize-photos/

It gave the attached result which is not a lot of help though.
It would probably be a good assumption that the wings were yellow on top.

Curt

[tigertony100]

Thanks a million my friends!!! You were very helpful. Tony.