RED & BLUE VEHICLE INTERIORS

Where red and blue come from inside a vehicle

A rich red and blue are not colors a person would expect under armor, and yet both appear there quite commonly. Red got inside as an anticorrosion base that stayed unpainted on the floor and on the underside of hatches, and as the coat of fire extinguishers. Blue occurred on instrument panels, on the insulation of cabling, on the upholstery of command vehicles and, with some armies, even as the overall coat of engine rooms. Both are moreover suited anywhere an accent of color that catches the eye is wanted inside.

The make-up of the package

The box contains six bottles divided into two three-part lines. The red line goes from an almost black tone through a matte red to an orange-tinged light position. The blue begins with a deep Prussian blue, continues with a middle rich shade and ends at a pale sky blue. The arrangement is therefore the same in both cases: the darkest tone into the shadows, the middle one onto the surface, the lightest onto the edges and the raised places.

How to spray such surfaces

Rich red and blue tones tend to cover less well than grays, so it pays to lay a light base under them and only then to spray. They are applied in thin coats with short pauses, so that the paint does not flood the detail. For blue instruments a gloss clear coat over the finished shade has proved itself, because the glass of the dials can then be suggested by a mere reflection without further paint. The remaining red will serve you outside on the model too, on a fire extinguisher by a fender or on warning markings.