Let me be the first to note that not all of these paint schemes are entirely accurate, such "details" didn't bother me much until fairly recently, but here they are anyway. All 1/48 scale.

AMT Corsair, built about 1976:


Monogram Corsair built about 1986, blue paint thinly brushed over blue plastic:


Otaki Corsair, built about 1988:


Monogram Wildcat, built about 1986:


Monogram Hellcat, built about 1987:


Monogram Helldiver, built about 1988:


Monogram Devastator, built about 1986:


All are brushed with Testors enamels from 1/4 oz. square bottles. Early war blue-gray is just that, mixed from blue and gray while the underside gray was lightened with white. Three-toners are blue on top, white underneath and a mix of the two for the intermediate blue...hey, that's all we had!

The striped rudders on the F4F and TBD are hand-painted as well.

John

Great stuff here and all the posts on this theme below!!!

Rick

...can add a model such "natural" weathering! Fond memories, John, when no reference and feedback were expected from the Internet! Cool pieces, I wish I still had the very first Heller and Airfix models I built in one afternoon in my childhood. Thanks for sharing.