GSNeil Posted September 24, 2019 Share Posted September 24, 2019 Hey all - For an RAF P-40 in the desert, I know it's D Earth, M Stone, A Blue - but what color would the interior cockpit be? Green Zinc or the British interior color? And how about the wheel wells, also Azure Blue? Thanks in advance... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GSNeil Posted September 25, 2019 Author Share Posted September 25, 2019 2 hours ago, Jennings Heilig said: Interior green. AFAIK no US manufacturer used anything like RAF IGG. Thanks Jennings - one reference I had said something about "Curtiss Cockpit Green". I had never heard of that before... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Ray Posted September 25, 2019 Share Posted September 25, 2019 I think Curtiss Cockpit Green is just their paint mixture. The interior green was a prescribed mixture(early on typically zinc chromate yellow with black tint added) so invariably each manufacturer's color was a little different, I bet even between batches. I think that Dull Dark Green was the same way. This is why I don't worry too much about interior colors. If it looks close to you it should be fine. LSP_K2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RBrown Posted September 25, 2019 Share Posted September 25, 2019 Curtiss employed Du Pont equivalent colors for British contracts. Du Pont No. 71-036 Cockpit Light Green was used on some P-40 production built to British contracts. The relic below is a P-40 control stick in what appears to be 71-036... MikeC, Fanes, TAG and 3 others 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GSNeil Posted September 25, 2019 Author Share Posted September 25, 2019 Thanks all for the feedback - I've been trying out the Mission paint line recently. Their version of Zinc C actually looks a lot like that DuPont CLG.... I'll go with that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KUROK Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 On YouTube you can find “Ways of the Warhawk” a wartime training film. The interior of that P-40F looks bronze green to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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