Help. Dug out my PBY kit by Monogram. Says interior is OD. Maybe it should be chromate green interior green. Anyone know? Thanks, Jarhead Thanks everyone. NOw all I have to do is decide which color to use.

OD is closer, but not quite right.

There's a shade called Dull Dark Green that was used as an interior color in a lot of PBY's, and Model Master offers a fairly close match in bottle and spray can form called Medium Green.

HTH

:-) I've painted the interior of my PBY US interior green, seemed a better bet than OD, I would consider Mike's suggestion though, I've read about this colour being used on the interior of some US aircraft.
Anyone know more about this?
Mal
Sorry, nearly forgot, Hi George, welcome to the site

Hi George

Welcome to Armorama!!

Dana Bell wrote an article about U.S. WW2 interior colours for FSM October 1997. It makes for interesting reading, because the Army and Navy seem to have disagreed about the colour to be used, and there were many exceptions to the regulations... so there's scope for most colours to right to some degree...

Bronze Green, Dull Dark Green, Interior Green and Medium Green were all used at some stage. Not mentioned in the article, but noted in Detail & Scale's P-39 book is "Bell Green" - their own "company colour".

As for Olive Drab, Dana Bell says it was specified as the interior colour for the Piper L-4 Grasshopper (and AT-6Fs from Sept 1945).

Hope this helps, rather than confuses!!

All the best

Rowan

welcome to Armorama George,

defitly interer green thats all i can tell you hope i was a help

I would go with interior green.

Thats what I would do, or Med. Green would be a good match. If you go witht hat, you have the best of both worlds. Its dark like olive drab, but light like Int. Green.

~Chip :-)

i know that for U.S planes after 1949 mostly during the Korea Green Zinc Chromate, the colout that was used instead of Yellow Zinc Chromate, or somthing like this. Anyway i look for the article and post it.