I've been (very) slowly knocking together the HiPM F-51H and I'm close to decaling time but I have a bit of a mystery on my hands. The kit offers two options from the Mass. Air National Guard, from what the instructions call the "Irish" and "Polish" squadrons. They appear to be differentiated by the trim options, either green or red on the wing and tail tips. My problem is that they also have white striped spinners, but I can't tell what the background colour is given HiPM's printing on the instruction sheet. You're supposed to be able to tell which shade of dark grey dots matches their colour key, but it's very difficult to do so. The spinners could be green and white, red and white or black and white and I'm certain that if I guessed I'd get it wrong.

Does anyone here know how they were painted? Better yet, does anyone have a pointer to pictures?

http://www.flightlineinsignia.com/101st-Fighter-Squadron-p1649.html

Also, there is a guy named Ken Middleton, he is on FB, and is a WEALTH of knowledge. He has also built and painted a few models of the wings aircraft. All seem to have solid green spinners. Here is his page... definitly worth a look through his work.

http://www.102ndfighterwing.com/

Lastly, I am about 25 minutes away from Otis ANGB where this unit was stationed till it was de activated in 2008. The unit does an intel job now, but if there is anything there you can look at, I can probably get the pictures if you tell me what you get from the PAO


Also, I cant confirm yet, but the Irish and Polish are probably references to squadrons at two different bases. Irish was probably the squadron that came from Logan field in Boston, to Otis ANGB on the cape, and I would GUESS that the Polish Squadron was a unit from either Hanscom field, or Westover, further west in central MA