WW2 aircraft interior color?

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Can anyone recomend amore realistic interior color than the awful color green of “zinc”?

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The zinc chromate was the actual preservative. It came in green and yellow. The yellow stuff is used as a pigment in paint and when not mixed with other pigments will give the paint the color “Buttercup Yellow”. It is a good anti-corrosive for aluminum. But it is ugly.

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That is the realistic colour, as aweful as it looks.

http://www.ipmsstockholm.org/magazine/2004/01/stuff_eng_interior_colours_us.htm

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What specific plane are you talking about? Interior greens differed according to the manufacturer.

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Different countries used different colors for interiors, so it depends too on what country.

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Not mention that some manufacturers used other colors such as Grumman using a light gray or Vought using a salmon pink color. The Japanese used a transluscent blue green on non cockpit areas as an anti corrosive preservative. Britain, Russia, Italy and Germany all had thier own versions of the same stuff.

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Thanks loads…this is great info! DZ

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Think ZC is ugly? Ever seen the CP of a Ruskie jet?

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If you’re working on WWII American or British aircraft, it’ll be difficult to get away from Zinc Chromate. That is, if you want to represent accuracy. Use any color you like but most of those a/c interiors, bays, etc… were good ol’ chromate green.

Here’s a couple of pics I took a few days ago of the original interior in a B25. It was a beautiful green through n through

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Thanks for the come-back! Yes no way to get around that color. We have a beautifully restored B-25 at a new air museum in port Clinton, Ohio. I’m really a scale RC’er and just got back to plastic. Currently a !/48 Jug. SJ

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If you look at the above photos, there are at least two differnt colors to be seen- Interior Green, and Greentint Zinc Chromate. Compare the control columns and the angles surface near the wing spar/bomb bay to the adjacent areas- different color of green. I painted a B-25 interior a few yeas back based off of one that had been restored localy at Chino to as accurate original condition as possible, and the interior on that one was Dull Dark Green.