Does anyone know the interior color or where I can find photos of the interior?
British Interior Green, Model Master has it. If you want help in on Spitfires, go look through the Spitfire Group Build in that part of this forum. You’ll find almost anything you need there.
I am currently building the hasegawa kit with eduard photo etch. In the painting instructions it list the interior as 82. When I look at the color code in the instructions, there is no 82 but it does have an 80 which is dark grey. I also could not find the color interior green listed in the instructions. I have MM RAF Interior green and am using it. What about the seat? I have painted the pad leather but what about the rest of the seat? From what I found here the whole thing is painted leather but the instructions call for silver. What do you think? It would be helpfull if I had some pictures of some interiors.
Darson or Antoni are more authoritative on Spitfires than me, but I think most seats were a composite material like bakelite, a dark reddish color. Here is a link to a couple of Spitfire builds that I have done, the Mk. XVI has the seat I am speaking of, not K5054:
The seat was a paper/resin mix, and the shade of red varied, so almost any dark (wine?) red will do. Later, when cockpit heating improved, and pilots could fly in shirtsleeves, a padded backrest appeared, which stretched about halfway down the back; it could be black, or brown, leather. Seatbelts (always Sutton type) were a light tan colour.
Edgar
I like using Pollyscale British Interior Green, and Pollyscale Panzer Red-Brown for the seat. You can add some interesting detail to the seat by lightly drybrushing some “swirls” with a small brush in a slightly darkened shade of the same. Probably a tad out-of-scale, but I think it looks neat to give the seat a bit more depth.
Thanks for the help. I’ll post a few picts to show my progress. Quick question, would the entire seat be bakelite or did it have metal brackets on the sides? I ask because the PE set came with sides that look like they should be painted a different color than the seat.
The whole thing was red, with the brackets moulded into the unit, probably to avoid sharp edges.
Edgar