As I’m new at modelling vehicles, I don’t know how to paint the interor of the cannon barrels, I have the Sd. Kfz. 234/3, I want to know how to paint the interior of the 75 mm L24 cannon’s barrel… maybe silver?, maybe gunmetal?, maybe a mix?.. I don’t know, the instruction sheet don’t says anything…
Just paint it the same color as the vehicle, after you paint it youll notice that it since it is a small hole, shade will make it appear black on the inside
I think steal would be a good choice.
Paint the interior Matt black. The barrel interiors were not painted, but left natural metal on real vehicles, however if you use gunmetal or any metallic shade it will look odd for the scale of the vehicle - hence black. The barrel on the 234/3 is short, so if you paint it a lighter colour you will see the bottom of the barrel.
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Definitely go with flat black. For scale effect, anything else will look a little odd.
Thank you for the replies… so, I’ll paint it black…
Please avoid the unrealistic habit of coating the area around the muzzle opening with tons and tons of black residue (I’ve seen some tanks with the residue almost to 1/3 back towards the mantlet!). The nature of WW2 powders didn’t stain the muzzle openings. If anything, the heat generated would have discolored the paint and the constant swabbing and cleaning by the tankers would leave residue but please don’t used the ground up black pastel chalk.
ericdeane is absolutly right.
If there was any discoloration, it was caused by the tankers using way too much barrel cleaner. Also, the heat of the round being fired would have blistered and slightly(as in almost not visable even in 1/35 scale) discolored the paint. As to answer your question, zeroenna, go with flat black. The way I like to replicate the muzzel discoloration is to apply a oil wash of dark brown. After I wipe it off it leaves a hardly peceptible stain. Fletcher