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Julien

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I have read the cockpit of these were painted Bell Interior Green, did they use the same colour in the wheel wells or standard interior green?

 

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I thought a good place to start if you are struggling is to research P-39, P-63 colours and found this in an earlier BM thread posted by @Pete57  There is specific mention in his post of the P-59 Maintenance manual.

 

Taken from the Erection and Maintenance manuals of both the Bell P-59 (TO AN 01-110FF-2) and the Bell P-63 (TO AN 01-110FP-2):

“All metal parts such as struts, forks, etc., which form a part of the alighting gear and, which are exposed when the gear is lowered, receive two coats of dull Army-Navy interior green lacquer in addition to the coat of zinc chromate primer specified above. Parts and interior of the wheel wells are finished with one coat of zinc chromate primer only”

Two coats of the same dull Army-Navy interior green lacquer are called for in the “PAINT FINISH FOR CABIN INETRIOR” section, with stainless steel, unplated steel and aluminum alloy rivets to receive one coat of primer prior to their application.

Now, one would be inclined to believe this dull Army-Navy interior green lacquer to be color No. 611 of the ANA Bulletin 157, however…

The list of the materials to be used in TO AN 01-110FF-2 shows the following, two green lacquers:

“Olive Drab Camouflage Lacquer, Shade No. 41 of AC Bulletin No. 41”, and

“Medium Green Camouflage Lacquer, Shade No. 42 of AC Bulletin No. 41”

Whereas TO AN 01-110-FP-2, shows:

“Olive Drab Camouflage Lacquer, Shade No. 613 of Bulletin No. 157A”, and

“Medium Green Camouflage Lacquer, Shade No. 612 of Bulletin No. 157A”

Given that, in both cases, the Olive Drab is to be used for exterior camouflage, the dull Army-Navy interior green lacquer can only be the Medium Green Shade No. 612 of Bulletin No. 157A or the similar Medium Green Shade No. 42 of AC Bulletin No. 42.

and therefore this should be the Bell Interior Green, at least for the N and Q versions of the P-39.

 

Here is the link to the thread:

 

Ray

 

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8 hours ago, Julien said:

did they use the same colour in the wheel wells or standard interior green?

Don't you know anything about Airacomet? :tease:

 

 

(In-joke between Julien & I :devil: )

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