Another question… what kind of green is that used for painting the Su-27 whell hubs?.. in some photos I’ve seen it’s like URSS Interior Blue/Green… in other photos is like Pale green (I can’t remember the FS number)… and finally, in some of them it seems like Interior Green… and in the instruction sheet, it is a common green… but… which of these colors is the right one?..
All my Flanker references show a darker “field green” color for the wheel hubs. Im not sure Russia has a Federal Standard color scheme like the U.S., but Floquil Poly Scale makes a “Soviet Green” (FS? 34226). I can’t vouch for the accuracy.
All my references show a darker green (NOT pale or gray/green). Maybe you can start with a field green ( like Xtracolor’s Field Green FS 14097) and mix until you get the right scale effect. Hope it helps, Frank
Wheel hubs on Su-27 are gloss dark green (like, say, a very dark grass green).
Xtracolor has a special color called X628 Soviet Wheel Hub Green and this is probably what you need (haven’t seen it yet, just guessing by the description):
http://www.hannants.co.uk/search/?FULL=X628
In 1991 during our 10-day war of independence, some stores sold gas masks imported from Russia. Filters were painted with what I could swear was exacty the same color…[8D]
I used Testors Model Master “Soviet Armor Green” on the wheel hubs of a MiG-21 I did a while back and it looks very close to any pictures I’ve seen of Russian aircraft with the green wheel hubs.
The way I read it a while ago, it went like this; In the great patriotic war (WW2) when aircraft production soared, three locations were chosen to make the wheels.
One left them in natural metal, another in primer, and the third painted them. Now this one had, until then, been the factory that made artillery pieces for the army. And guess what colour they’d been painted?. The same colour that’s used to this day, apparently.
So Russian artillery green, if you see it on a paint chart, should be your colour.
In the past, I had a tin of US Marine green by Humbrol which suited me for the purpose, after all, those wheels are going to get muddy & dusty or blackened by brake dust. So why be so picky? Plus, far as I can tell, it’s not far off the shade of green on Upnorth’s tank on this page!
Pete