B-26 Marauder Bomb bay & Wheel well colour.

Started by Tolga ULGUR · 5 · 10 years ago
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    Tolga ULGUR said 10 years, 8 months ago:

    Hello,
    Nowadays I am preparing myself to start Monogram B-26 Marauder in 1/48 scale.
    I would like to clarify the colour of the bomb bay and wjeel wells.
    Bomb bay = natural aluminium
    Wheel well and inside of the doors = US interior green.
    Cockpit:= Dark green ? or Interior green?
    Do you have any reference picture to share?

    Thanks in advance

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    Dmitry Stropalov said 10 years, 8 months ago:

    Hi Tolga, did you see this article - http://www.ipmsstockholm.org/magazine/2004/02/stuff_eng_interior_colours_us_part2.htm ? There is a section about B-26.

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    Tolga ULGUR said 10 years, 8 months ago:

    Thank you Dmitry, this will be helpful.

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    Josh Patterson said 10 years, 8 months ago:

    Thanks for posting this! They did show a photo of an A-26, but no descriptions. There is a restoration of an A-26K currently in progress by the A-26 Legacy Foundation and as they were stripping paint on the interior they found the cockpit and bomb bay were green (zinc chromate?) but the gunner's compartment was grey. Anyone else have info on this? I thought it looked interesting, so I finished my A-26 with zinc chromate and neutral grey. Looks pretty neat through the canopies!

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    Bernard E. Hackett, Jr. said 10 years, 3 months ago:

    The Martin B-26 interior is supposedly largely unpainted, to move production along.

    The cockpit interior had mats for insulation, which were green (take a guess).

    The bomb bay was unpainted. Hey, if that's wrong, you can always paint it, anyhow, afterward.

    I'd go with bronze green for the earlier, and chromate green for later production.

    There's a build article on the kit you're doing in Finescale Modeler, by Rafe Morrissey, January 2005 issue. He says interior green, 34151, and unpainted bomb bay.

    I'd say take your pick, until the erection manual for the B-26 shows up, if ever, and even then!

    As they used to say "Don't you know there's a war on?"

    Good luck, watch the gaps in the wing to fuselage join, and ditto the nacelles.