GB-49 1:48 P-400 Airacobra - Favourite A/C of WW II

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While Mother Superior and three of her siblings sit in the other room watching Charlton Heston and Yul Brenner in The Ten Commandments I sit in the computer room being reminded how bad my eyesight is getting. Eye doc says I am still a couple of years away from having to have my cataracts removed.
Cockpit entry doors have been masked off.



Cheers

Jeff
 
don't know if this will help Jeff.
This is a ( poor ) pic of a pic from a calendar, showing the cockpit of the P-39 in the USAF Museum. The entire interior appears to be black.


 
Definitely looks black on the original print, but of course, I don't know i that's the original colour, or if it's been re-painted at some time.
 
Hi Guys,

Sorry to say, I'm not sure what color was used in the P-400 cockpit. The records are slim on those pre-Lend-Lease orders, though quite a few of them show British Interior Grey-Green on other aircraft. I've found a number of pre-war documents discussing commonality issues between the P-400 and the P-39D, but none of the docs discuss colors.

Contemporary photos show P-39s with both versions of Dull Dark Green in their cockpits - that is the black-green version and the deep forest green version. I've not seen any Bronze Green evidence, but there's still a lot I've not seen. (There certainly was leftover Bronze Green used as a finish coat on some landing gear - and leftover paint might have previously been used in cockpits.)

Very late P-39 production used Interior Green cockpits, but those aircraft were built long after P-400 production had ended.

Last note on "Bell Green" - so far all evidence of its existence is anecdotal. I've never found a written explanation of it's existence, and the anecdotal evidence points to three different colors.

Wish I had more on this - I'd love to know more on export colors for my own projects!

Cheers,


Dana
 
I went with interior green for the inside of the window frames. Canopy is attached and doors secured. A small bit of putty around the fuselage/canopy joint was required as you can see in the second photo there was a small gap.



I then gave it all a first coat of olive drab and then removed the canopy masks.



I had paint left in the airbrush so I painted the tops of the wings and will be attaching them next time at the work bench. I will touch up any areas that require fixing after doing that.

Cheers

Jeff
 

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