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Discuss World War I and the early years of aviation thru 1934.
Martin B-10B
Kamikaze74
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Posted: Sunday, November 11, 2007 - 11:51 PM UTC
Hi,

I'm making a Martin B-10B 1/72 Williams Bros, but doesn't exist any reference to the colour of the cockpits and wheels whells. Can someone please help me?

Thank you.

Ps - sorry about my writting
Merlin
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Posted: Monday, November 12, 2007 - 12:31 AM UTC
Hi there

There are a couple of photos of the cockpit HERE. It looks like it might well have been basically aluminium, with black consoles etc. I'll have a look in Dana Bell's colour notes tonight to see if he mentions it.

Hope this helps

Rowan
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Posted: Monday, November 12, 2007 - 03:48 AM UTC
In what nationality are you going to do it?

Greetings, Nico
Kamikaze74
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Posted: Monday, November 12, 2007 - 12:55 PM UTC
Hi,

Well, for the first time I'm going to make a "museum plane", very shiny and clean, so it's going to be the American it's more colourfull then the Dutch. Sorry the only plane that I'm going to paint with olivedrab is a Boeing B-29A.

RUI
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Posted: Monday, November 12, 2007 - 09:44 PM UTC
No need to feel sorry. Good luck with the build!

Cheers, Nico
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Posted: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 - 03:36 AM UTC
Hi again Rui

Sorry - I couldn't find any more colour info specific to the B-10B. I've read that a lot of inter-war US interiors were aluminium prior to the experiments in the late '30s mixing zinc chromate and black, which lead to "interior green" - so I'd go for aluminium...

All the best

Rowan
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