Yeah, stick with the green for the interior. I found a photo of an original night fighter, no silver gear doors, but the panel on top of the booms around the supercharger is natural aluminum - like in the P-38J photo.

Also note that the restored night fighter is actually just a P-38F painted gloss black. It's missing the two-person cockpit, radar and flash suppresors on the guns. There were only about 80 P-38M night fighters, and all of them were converted from the later P-38L like you have in your kit.

-Paul

That greenish yellow is zync chromate. I think it's merely an anti corosion paint.

Cockpit colors, oh my . . . .

Yodaman,

Penny gave you a good steer on the P-38, since it is probably one of the more accurate restorations outside the National Air and Space Museum.

The subject of cockpit colors can get more dicey as you start going outside the realm of P-38's though. FineScale Modeler had a great article on cockpit and primer colors a couple of years back, and it knocked a lot of my assumptions on their collective rear. Had never heard of Bronze Green or Dull Dark Green for cockpit colors till that article and some posts on other webzines.

Even Interior Green can vary from aircraft manufacturer to manufacturer or from production block to production block, since some specs for it involve mixing zinc chromate and black pigment pastes. And someone already mentioned here how you can find multiple shades in a single airplane: i.e. Mustang.

The big lesson, which you already know very well - - - check your references.

Enjoy the Lightning . . . . I've already tried reworking a Revelleogram Mosquito

Well,
Yoda the only P-38 that I've have built is a 1/144 scale. It's only about 2" big, so there no whell wells and no cockpit. I am looking to buy one. I want to see who has the best quality kit first. I like building WWII and modern jet aircraft. :-) :-)

You are correct, it's used alot as a primer. We used it alot on helicopters along with epoxy polymide.