F-80 cockpit color?

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Hi guys!

I’m working on the Monogram F-80 and the instructions call for ziinc chrimate to be used in the cockpit. Does this sound right? Would it be ZC or would it be Interior Green? Does anyone know what the correct color should be?

Thank you,

Eric

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zinc chromate and gray/black

https://secure.flickr.com/photos/divemasterking2000/1281938188/lightbox/

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I have a bottle of zinc chromate in my paint supply and it appears to be closer to yellow while the cockpit in the pictures appear to be more interior green or possibly olive drab. Sometimes I’m just not sure if restorations are any more trustworthy than my instruction sheet.

I thought I heard somewhere, and please correct me if I’m wrong, but I thought Air Force directives during the Korean War called for cockpits to be painted more of a black color. Weren’t F-86s cockpits black? Grrrr! I wish I knew more about my early jets than I do.

Eric

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Zinc chromate, read this: http://www.ipmsstockholm.org/magazine/2004/01/stuff_eng_interior_colours_us.htm

F-86 cockpit:

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Go with Interior Green. The bottle of Zinc Chromate you describe sounds like yellow tint Zinc Chromte and was not used in cockpits. It is used on various US aircraft for wheel wells, gun bays, flap interiors, etc. As far as F-86s go, one F-86 that I found being used as range target had a Dull Dark Green cockpit. Thats what I used on the cockpit of one that I am building.

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Thanks for all the info and the great link! I think I’ll go ahead and repaint the cockpit with interior green. The pictures and the info from the link seem to support the use of the more greenish “interior green” zinc chromate as opposed to the more yellowish zinc chromate as supplied by Testors.

Thanks!

Eric