what colors were cockpits typically painted I had read that rlm 2 and 66 are the colors.

Hi godfather,
you are spot on.
RLM 66 was usually used for cockpits and sometimes as part of camo schemes.
RLM 02 was usually used for undercarriage legs and internal surfaces such as bomb bays and wheel wells etc.
I think, without reference, Rlm 02 may have sometimes been used in cockpits, especially on early pre-war and early war years aircraft

Cheers
Peter
:-)

Hi godfather

Peter is quite correct - the change from RLM 02 to 66 for painting cockpits was in 1941 - at least that's when the official documents are dated. Of course, there's always the chance some manufacturers carried on using 02.

As the war situation worsened, it became neccessary to save materials and speed up production, so as early as 1942 an instruction was issued calling for the abandonment of painting for wheel wells etc, flaps etc.

Hope this helps

Rowan