Hi Jesters, and everybody...
Nobody has to be confused :
- First : the bare metal base is suitable for... Mr Loving's plane, for example.
- Second and above all : here is what Mr Loving replied to me just now, as I asked the "color" question
"About your question--olive drab or not?-- I do not remember any of our P-51s painted olive drab, nor do any of the photographs I have depict any of the squadron's Mustangs painted olive drab. During my training in the USA I flew olive drab P-51s, and when I went to North Africa with a group of other pilots to ferry the initial batch of P-51s to Italy, we were surprised to find that all of them were unpainted. That created a lot of discussion. I feel confident the Taylor is mistaken--which is not surprising given that a lot of years have passed."
Let's roll...
