What color is the Wildcat interior?
Nick - US Interior green or green zinc chromate will work for the interior (some brands call it different things), some like to lighten it a little with yellow-green or yellow chromate I usually just use the plain green chromate though.
Well,Yesterday I bought paint entitled:Zinc Chromate.Dont know if its green or not!
Interior green works pretty well too
Ok I bought the Testors Enamel Zinc Chromate…Any idea on what it is?
Oops forgot to add,the number is 1184
If it’s called just “Zinc-chromate”, it is probably the colour of raw zinc-chromate primer. Straight zinc-chromate primer was a bright yellow colour. The zinc-chromate green you see in US WW2 aircraft is a result of mixing the raw primer colour with black paint. They mixed it so the paint would be less reflective, and used it in cockpits instead of the straight yellow colour.
As for the wildcat, their cockpits were actually painted in a darker colour called bronze green. It is a darker green than interior or zinc-chromate green. Don’t know of any matches straight from the bottle, but Testor or model master probably have a colour called bronze green in their range.
Hope that helps.
Another ?.IS the color for the instrument panel black?
Yes. Have a look at this picture, it’s also a pretty good example of the bronze green colour I mentioned earlier:
hope this helps.
As stated earlier, the interior for a Grumman built F4F would be a Bronze Green, which is quite a bit darker than the “Interior Green” or Zinc Chromate" often called out for in kit instructions. The pic that was included in an earlier post to show that the instrument panel was black has an Interior Green cockpit which is incorrect for a Grumman Built F4F. Bronze Green is close to FS34058 and Humbrol 75 is a very close match, as is Testor’s Model Master Euro I Dark Green. And yes, it almsot looks black in period photos, and is very dark, so I would lighten it a bit for scale effect.