I’ve got a Hasegawa Macchi C.202 Veltro with lots of nice Eduard frets for it and Mike Grant’s great “smoke ring” decals so I can cheat on painting the camo. But I don’t have a clue what color the interior of these birds was painted, and I’ll be fried before I believe any Hasegawa color callouts. How about wells and other interior places? The instructions give the same green mixture for all of these places.
Is there a good bottled match, like from, say, Polly Scale? I can’t believe in three-plus decades of modeling I’ve never built a WW II Italian a/c, but there it is in all it’s ignorant glory.
Also, what about the interior of an S.M. 79? I have the Flashback kit that I plan to get around to one day when I get the guts.
Thanks,
Tom
I have no idea but I’d really like to know. It seems that there is very little information on Italian aircraft out there. I have my eye on that same Hasegawa Macchi C.202. In some of the reviews I’ve read the modelers used Israeli AF green for the Italian anti-corrosion green in the cockpit. I don’t know if this is correct or not. But it’s a start.
The interior was a light, bright green. IPMS Stockholm gives a mixing formula using Humbrol.
http://ipmsstockholm.org
The Mushroom Model Magazine Special on the Macchi c.202 has color pics that show the color to be very similar to Tamiya IJN Cockpit Green, lightened by about 20% white.
Hope this helps.
Regards, Rick
I think I used Tamiya cockpit green XF71 when I painted this Macchi C.205 along with Tamiya XF23 blue, XF58 olive green, and XF59 desert yellow. The smoke rings are free hand.
For Italian aircraft you can try three colors:
-Light Gray FS 36495
-Pale Green FS 34227 and
-A mix: 3/4 Interior Green FS 34151 + 1/4 Flat White FS 37875
If it is an early SM-79 Sparviero, you may use the Light Gray, and I suggest the mix for the fighters, but I think you can use any of these colors for any Italian aircraft you want anyway… Hope this helps.