Graham Boak Posted January 14, 2019 Share Posted January 14, 2019 These are mounted near the rear of the fuel tanker, in an alcove on each side. Airfix gives no clue to painting them (that I've seen) but presumably they are not the olive drab that is otherwise a default? What colour should they be - I presume they would be the same on both sides. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Army_Air_Force Posted January 14, 2019 Share Posted January 14, 2019 Perhaps just a brass colour like the Pyrene extinguisher from my Dodge Weapon Carrier. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orso Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 https://blackbirdcatering.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/a-3-tank-photo1.jpg Looks olive drab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Boak Posted January 16, 2019 Author Share Posted January 16, 2019 That's a nice photo, with an interesting conversion for the bomb truck that comes in the kit. However I'm referring to smaller hand-held extinguishers fitted into alcoves at the rear of the tanker. The cylinders in the kit are 1cm tall with a flat bottom. I make that 28 inches tall. I'd have said there was no nozzle represented, but on closer inspection there is a rather 2D representation of a very thin one on the side, with apparently a single lever or handle opposing it at the top. In overall appearance I would say it looks most like the red extinguisher on the 1944 Chevvy in the first link. It does not have the proportions of the stubbier brass examples I've seen suggested since I asked this question. In the UK, Red is the colour for water extinguishers. I'd have thought that unsuitable for fuel fires. However there is a comment that the US does not, or did not, have the same standard of coding and that it was common for various types of extinguisher to be red. What the USAAF thought at the time of WW2 is perhaps an open question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Army_Air_Force Posted January 16, 2019 Share Posted January 16, 2019 A quick picture search for WW2 Fire Extinguisher shows lots of brass ones, or olive drab body with a brass data plate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogsbody Posted January 16, 2019 Share Posted January 16, 2019 Do these help? Chris 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Boak Posted January 16, 2019 Author Share Posted January 16, 2019 Yes thanks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkshire man Posted January 16, 2019 Share Posted January 16, 2019 Could be red , Randolph Labs Military WW2 extinguisher 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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