I’m starting the 1/48 Tamiya Razorback and other than the resin seat, I’m going OOB. The paint called out for the base color of the cockpit interior is Tamiya X-15 “flat green”, which is acrylic. I have decided to use all enamels on this build with perhaps an acrylic wash. As far as the interior color I have Testors green and also Interior Green, (a lighter shade), and can’t decide which would be a closer match to the Tamiya flat green. What say you?
This probably should have been posted in the paintig thread so please pardon.
Tamiya is great but … not with providing color references!
There are tons of cockpit pictures available. I will combine some set and provide on the P-47 GB within next few days.
Tamiya P-47 is just great as it is. I am building “M” now and the only thing I used was a seat belt set from the Eduard PE. I just wasted the whole set just for seatbelts, but it was not necessary to use them anyway. Tamiya did an exceptional job with detailing cockpit.
According to “P-47 Thuunderbolt in detail & scale”, T-Bolts built by Republic had the interior painted in what they called a “dull dark green”. It is definitely a darker color than interior green. There is a color chip in the Osprey Modelling “Modelling the P-47 Thunderbolt” book. To my eyes, it looks like a green with maybe a touch of black in it.
I think using interior green would be justified since the color will fade anyway, plus if viewed in such dark environment darker will loose a lot of details. Having black details on top of dark green may create very dark effect and all the work on the cockpit details would be lost in darkness [:D]
When I saw this cockpit of P-47N (Norma) I almost painted my cockpit with this scheme
but I decided to go with interior green what gave me pretty good contrast and keep everything very close to what I saw on other aircraft (P-47s)
Yup, it’s most definitely a darker color. Out of the bottle, Model Master’s Euro Dark Green is a close match for Dark Dull Green, but I usually add a drop or two of black to get a bit closer to the original color.
It just so happens I ordered this particular book on 8/25 and much to my disapointment it has yet to arrive. I don’t know what’s taking Amazon.com so long, they are saying Sept 4th.
To add to the Dull Dark Green topic- Medium Green 42 is also a good match. It is the WWII AAF color that later became Euro I Green 34092. Polly Scale, Humbrol, Gunze, and most other paint manufacturers make one of these colors in their product lines. Only P-47s built by a subcontractor- Curtiss I believe- used 34151 Interior Green in the cockpit. And those birds were kept stateside for training duties.
