Acrysion - interiérová zelená

The green of cockpits and internal structures

Inside the fuselages of American aircraft of the Second World War there appeared a characteristic yellowish green protective paint that modelers know today as interior green. It covered cockpit walls, instrument panels, spars, the insides of bomb bays and the landing gear bays. Anyone building a Mustang, a Thunderbolt or a Flying Fortress reaches for this tone before starting to put the fuselage together, because the inside has to be finished including its weathering before the halves are glued.

Interiors behave differently to the eye than external surfaces. Light reaches them only through gaps, so it pays to lay the shade on a little lighter than the color chart would suggest and to create the depth only with a dark wash running into the corners and around the rivets. The raised parts of the frames and the edges of the seats are then enough to suggest with a very fine dry brush.

Procedure and thinning

The thinner is water, the application reckons with an airbrush, and light coats are worth even more here than on the external surface: the small parts of a cockpit are full of fine detail that a heavy coat immediately floods. On small areas it proves useful to lower the pressure and come closer to the part. When you are finished, a rinse with water is enough while the paint is fresh, and only hardened residues need the cleaner from the same range. It also pays to finish an interior well ahead of time, because instrument panels, seat belts and small levers call for several separate steps and each of them needs its own time to dry before the next one comes around.