ErikB Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 Hi guys, I've seen photos of restored Mosquitoes that feature coloured bezels on the port side-panel. Hairy Hippie, Flickr, TA634, Mosquito Museum Eduard copies this in their 1/32 set: eduard.com But I've also seen instrument panels that had bezels in their natural colour: Brussels Air Museum Restoration Society - bamfbamrs.be Mosquito NF.30 Belgian Air Force Besides that, in my earlier years I have been a train engineer, also driving diesel locomotives. The colour coding used at the Dutch Railways was the same as used by the WW2 Luftwaffe: -Blue; air. -Yellow; fuel. -Brown; lubricant. -Green; coolant. Unless the RAF used very different colour coding (Always a possibility, of course!), these colours don't really make sense to me. Can anyone shed light upon the matter if these colours are post-war / restoration mods (like the ubiquitous red crowbars in Spitfires...) or indeed used on production Mosquitoes in the RAF during WW2? Thank you in advance for your insights! Erik. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErikB Posted August 30, 2015 Author Share Posted August 30, 2015 To clarify why these colours don't make sense: the blue instruments show coolant temperature, the inner yellow ones; oil temperature and the outer yellow ones show oil pressure. The red instrumenst show boost pressure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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