Brisfit Cockpit Interior Colour

[mhaselden]

This has probably been asked before but my Google-fu isn't working today.  What colour should I use to represent the fabric interior of a Brisfit cockpit?  I know fabric-covered components in the 1930s-1940s were first treated with a brick red dope which bled through the fabric, with the final exterior dope being applied on top of that.  What about WW1 vintage aircraft?  Was the PC10 dope applied directly to the linen or was it overlaid on top of a primer dope coat...which naturally prompts follow-on questions about how much bleed-through would occur and of what colour?

 

Sorry if I'm asking a bleedingly obvious question...but I'd appreciate any thoughts the cognoscenti here have on the topic.  

 

Many thanks,
Mark

[Dave Fleming]

Clear linen - they applied a clear dope first to fill/stiffen the linen, then PC10 then clear varnish.

 

 

Edited August 30, 2018 by Dave Fleming

[mhaselden]

On ‎8‎/‎30‎/‎2018 at 5:18 AM, Dave Fleming said:

Clear linen - they applied a clear dope first to fill/stiffen the linen, then PC10 then clear varnish.

 

 

 

Thanks Dave.  That helps a lot.  

[Dave Fleming]

Shrinking dope, that’s what the first coat was called! To shrink and taughten the fabric!

[Brandy]

I second Dave's comment. The interior was linen coloured.  Coloured dope didn't "show through". 

 

Ian