Today, 07:12
Hiede, I'm not offended at all, I enjoy the discussions.
I've learnt to trust decal sheets & profile drawings less & less. They're invariably based on grainy b & w photos, or half-remembered recollections by veterans many years after the event.
Where possible I like to base a skin on photos, & do my own interpretation. I find it implausible that the sqn would hand-mix a mid-blue for the fuselage sides & tailfin that's darker than the 3 colour scheme Sea Blue. I think i'ts more likely they took a tricolour scheme aircraft & just painted over the white undersides with Navy Blue, as used on the top of the fuselage & wings.
I do accept that my rendition of Sea Blue may look a little pale, so I'll work on a slighly revised skin based on this photo of a TBM-1D of VT(90), circa February...