I’m building a 1/48 F4U - 1A and need a little advice as to cockpit colours. The instructions state the cockpit as being interior green, however I have some rather good colour photos of a restored example in which the control boxes on each side of the cockpit and everything above is black, whilst everything below is interior green. Is this authentic, or some kind of licence on the part of the restorer??
For an F4U-1A, the cockpit sidewalls would be interior green. Many of the later F4U-1D models had the upper cockpit sidewalls painted flat black. Bert Kinzey’s “Detail in Scale F4U Corsair part 1” has some great color photos of both versions, as well as lots of other info very helpful to the modeler.
Thanks Rick. Just what I needed [:D]
Ah but that photo in detail and scale is of a rebuilt corsair. It should be int. green sidewalls through varients to the -4 version. Black and white photo’s from the war showed the sidewalls lighter than the airframe. This was seen also by myself where at my local airport a gent owns a -1D Corsair. He showed me the original paint on the sidewall was int. green, and had documentation from Chance-Vought that said same. It is debated that Goodyear may have used black on some aircraft, I choose not to get into that argument though.
Drew
SR15e was published in Oct., '44. It calls for cockpit sidewalls to be painted black to the bottom of the instrument panel. Below that was painted interior green. Any thing built before that was all interior green. I wouldn’t they would go back and paint the black in earlier a/c.
This is off another modeler site, credit william Reese. F4U-1A Corsair. Cockpit: FS 34151 Interior Green. All other areas of the F4U-1A were Zinc Chromate Yellow, FS 33481. Early F4U-1A’s may have been Salmon. Landing gear: Light Gray or Aluminum Lacquer. This was true well into the F4U-4 production. Some a/c may have had Insignia white landing gear after overhaul or repaint.
Tim
Actually, the cockpit in the -1A was Zinc Chromate as well, below the comtrol panels (black). Interior Green is a misnomer and is incorrect.
Cheers,
JK