British Late War Interior Colors

Anonymous · October 27, 2006, 1:19pm

Looking for info on British Late War Interior Aircraft Colors for a 1/72nd Scale model of the Hawker Typhoon mkIb.

chris_hall · October 27, 2006, 2:04pm

Some early Tiffies, especially ‘car door’ ones, had RAF interior grey-green cockpits. however, later machines had their cockpits in black, with the instrument panel with a crinkle effect finish.

http://www.aeronautics.ru/archive/wwii/books/cockpit/page_03.htm

In the absence of specific information for the machine you’re building, I would go for black as the safer option. In 1/48 or 1/72, of course, this is better represented by a very dark grey.

Cheers,

Chris.

Anonymous · October 27, 2006, 2:06pm

Thanks for help your Chris:)

rjkplasticmod · October 27, 2006, 8:24pm

ModelMaster Interior Black works well,

Regards, Rick

Jeebus · October 27, 2006, 9:39pm

That’s a good site, but now i’m really stumped. I was looking at the cockpit of the P-47, and noticed a set of switch’s labled chemical release, on the left switch panel, do you have any idea what this is for?.

chris_hall · October 28, 2006, 3:54am

Emergency relief tube resevoir emptying?

Cheers,

Chris.