I’m building Revell’s 1/48 B-29. I need some help deciding which manufacturer has the closest shade of interior green for this plane. There are so many which one do you pick?
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I notice you’re new to the forum…this place is great. Well here goes…B-29. What are your intentions? Fresh of the assembly or been in the mix for a while? Consider the circumstances you want to capture. My personal opinion is a model is nothing more than a snapshot of a moment.
Aircraft that have been in operation for a time will be grimy and worn. Perhaps they get replacement parts that are “off shade” etc. etc.
My best suggestion is to work with the rec’s on the kit and weather to “taste”
ModelMaster Interior Green is a good match IMHO.
Regards, Rick
I agree with Rick, Model Master Interior green is my favourite. But I also use Gunze Interior green for those slightly darker shades you see on some aircraft.
here is a great web site to check out
http://www.ipmsstockholm.org
and go to their magazine section in 2004 and look for Interior Colors of US aircraft
Vallejo model air do 2 different int greens, one interior green 23a (010) and one zinc chromate (094)
We’ve got four US interior greens available in our range of Colourcoats enamels:
USN/USAAF Interior Green (FS 24151), matched to the Monogram books (item ACUS 09);
Zinc Chromate Green, matched to actual samples (item ACUS 22);
Zinc Chromate Yellow, matched to actual samples (item ACUS 23); and,
Dull Dark Green, matched to a sample provided by Dana Bell of the National Air & Space Museum (item ACUS 24).
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Cheers,
John Snyder
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Here we go again (this isn’t a slam at you MM – somebody asked the exact question a couple of weeks ago, and we get variations on this question almost daily) so let me drag out the old “Cockpits of WW II” book, which has a very large color photo of the interior of “Bock’s Car,” mostly unrestored and in original colors. There are two distinct shades of green. The control columns and the large console between the pilot and copilot is very clearly a bronze green. Now, this is a shade that varies a lot, depending on the source, but in this case it is obviously a medium green pigment with a distinct blue shade to it. I made mine by mixing medium green (actually, Euro Green by MM) with about 20 percent French Blue. Though any of the colors known as “true blue” will do. (You can save yourself a lot of trouble by using Humbrol’s Bronze Green, which seems to be a perfectly acceptable match in this case. I just didn’t have any at the time I need the color for a B-25 build).
The remainder of the cockpit (and all this includes the bombardier’s station in the nose) was an interior green that was a cross betwen MM Interior Green (FS 34151) with OD, mixed about 50/50. The inside of all that canopy framing was also in this color.
Oh, and as I pointed out last time, the enormous emergency brake levers that stick up from the console are among the most promiment features in the cockpit, even in 1/48 scale. These should be painted bright gloss red for the top half, and bronze green from the middle down. And other than that, it is not a very colorful cockpit. Postwar B-29’s tended to have a lot of black in them, but not the WW II examples I’ve seen.
Hope this helps a little.
TOM
model master zinc chromate is pretty good too.
Yeah you can use the Model Master Interior Green… but… what about the Model master Green Zinc Chromate?.. for many Italeri American aircraft kits they tell to use Green Zinc Chromate, and as B-29 is an American bomber maybe you must use this color, in the Academy B-29 box, there are some photos of the finished kit, showing the interior detail, it seems to be Green Zinc Chromate and a kind of Yellow… I think that it’s Chromate… happy modelling…