Did the 29’s use the interior green color? Some pics show them using grey, but I wanted to paint mine interior green. Any evidnce they used the gree color? Thanks.
I’d like to know as well since I have a Mig-29A and a Mig 29UB from Academy in my to do pile. and I also have some decals for Ivan’s Birds for both kits.
Gentlepersons,Hope I can Help.
I have the Verlinden “Lock On no19” book,and it shows the color of the cockpit of the photographed aircraft as a Gray color
Looks kinda close to Testors “Dark Ghost Gray”,
The Ejection Handle between the legs on the seat is Red
Seat Padding,lower is black with the upeer portion from the lower spine on up is a light gray
Cockpit floor is a kinda a Bluish gray with zinc wear marks showing through
Good luck on your kits,hope this helped
Phil/Rt4957
Thank you RT. drat. Thgis means I can’t use that cool looking interior green color. well… you can’t have everything.
Don`t put the “green” bottle away yet,
If it`s that dark “leafy” green color,you can use it on the Main wheels and the front nose wheels
The Russians had/have such bizarre colors
I like the Blue Green Cockpit color I`ve used on my 1/72 Hind
Glad to help,but not dissapoint
Phil
dang and all I have is a few bottles of Light ghost grey maybe I should use some of Tamiya’s grey paint some of it looks like dark ghost grey.
The Interior of the Mig-29 is light gray. The Bluish-Green Interior Color that Model Master makes was used on aircraft of the late 50s,60s, and maybe 70s. Pretty much the rule of thumb I use for building soviet aircraft is if it is newer than a Mig-23 it has a light gray interior, if older it has a bluish green color. I read the bluish green color was determined by soviet psychologists to reduce stress, much the same reason hospital gowns tend to be a similar color here in the US.
Here is a link with a few interior shots of a Mig-29 cockpit. The link also shows the green wheel hubs that were mentioned by RT.
http://216.110.156.31/mig29pgal.htm
LOL are you sure I’m pretty sure those hospital gowns cause stress because your litteraly walking around half naked but I’m going to use the Blueish Green paint I mixed on a Mig 21 from Academy I even have the Eduard set as well as the set for the Academy Mig 29 and several sets of K36 ejection seats.
I have been looking at getting the Academy 1/48 Mig-29UB, and I was looking at the instruction in the store… From what I can make out, and form pictures I have seen. The interior is indeed grey with black seats… I am a noob to Russian aircraft, but its definately grey and black…
Chris
The Russians parted with the turquois cockpit color when they made the MiG-25, I think it was the first Russian built combat jet not to have it…
The grey that you see in the pits of Fulcrums, Flankers, Frogfoots and just about any other Russian built combat type built after (roughly) 1985, seems to fall between medium and dark ghost grey. It varies aircraft to aircraft so it could be attributed to different paint lots or fade rates. Most pictures of fresher looking pits with that grey I’ve seen seem to have it at some sort of satin finish rather than dead flat.
As for the seat, the K-36 they have at the Brno Technical Museum has black cushions with a definite leather like sheen to them, I’m not sure if the cushions actually are leather or something synthetic. The belts are also black, but with less of a sheen than the cushions. The actual frame of the seat looks a bit lighter grey than the rest of the cockpit and has a definite semi gloss sheen to it.
Unfortunately, I’ve not had the chance to see the cockpit of an actual MiG-29 as the Czechs sold theirs off to Slovakia before I got here. I have heard recent rumblings that the Slovaks are preparing to replace their Fulcrums with new block F-16s, so perhaps in the not to distant future, some Fulcrums will come back into Czech hands for museum exhibits.
this helped me too i have 6 fulcrums to do
That green you refer to is a color used by the Imperial Russian artillery. It’s not a common color, and the closest color to is FS 595b 14097, or RAL 6005.
Color name: |
R: |
G: |
B: |
|---|---|---|---|
AII Black (AMT-6 Black) |
47 |
48 |
55 |
AII Green (new) |
135 |
201 |
83 |
AII Green (old) |
121 |
184 |
73 |
AII Dark Green |
101 |
163 |
7 |
A-24m Geen |
67 |
107 |
0 |
AEh-15 Factory Green |
0 |
85 |
45 |
AEh-11 Black |
0 |
0 |
45 |
AE-10 |
103 |
147 |
157 |
Industrial Metal Primer |
145 |
253 |
229 |
ALG-5 Primer |
174 |
204 |
185 |
A-14 Primer |
93 |
105 |
98 |
AMT-11Blue Gray |
163 |
180 |
187 |
AMT-12 Dark Gray |
94 |
114 |
109 |
A-32m Dark Gray |
69 |
75 |
Interior color looks like a medium blueish gray, like aircraft gray buy a little darker… I think dark ghost gray is a close match.
This is what I think the MiG 29 cockpit looks like. I used the Verlinden book and a bunch of other references, the color was mixed from some Tamiya blue and grey colors.