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Mosquito coloured instrument bezels?


ErikB

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Hi guys,

I've seen photos of restored Mosquitoes that feature coloured bezels on the port side-panel.

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Hairy Hippie, Flickr, TA634, Mosquito Museum

Eduard copies this in their 1/32 set:

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eduard.com

But I've also seen instrument panels that had bezels in their natural colour:

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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.

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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.

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