Interior color for the Apache?

All of the AH64's I have flown have flat black interiors. The only colors in the cockpit are the toggle switches which are silver and the white of the markings. I would suggest some bright metal simulation for the pedals. Other than that every thing is black.

If anyone wants up close interior photos please email me.

Jim Kindred
CW4, US Army

Happy to help!

My thinking is faily simple with colours.. I simply cant afford to buy a box of paints and then hope one of them is going to be the right one.. So I always make sure that I have enough of each base colour and a few metallics, and I go from there.. I just find mixing myself on an old jar lid to be the best way to experiment and get what you truelly want.. The black with the metalic always gets compliments from my friends, as they say that it really does look like metal..

Anyways, thats the fun of modelling.. Always finding new ways of doing stuff.. I love it!

ps: If you are using Tamiya paints as I do .. Then when mixing a flat black with chrome silver, can get bloggy if over used.. The best thing I do, is to have my thinner ready, as I like to clean the brush a few times as I go.. If it dries too fast and you continue to paint over the one spot, it can lift, and you will get a grainy sandy effect with the paint.. Clean brush, and even strokes at a minimum, and you will get the finish you want!

Chris in Japan

Knight,

Euro One Gray is almost the correct shade. HeavyArty is right, though. The interior is basic flat black, with a lot of other different shades of flat black on the panels, etc. I'm always amazed at how many different shades of flat black there really are!

Chris's suggestion would be ideal for the actual panels themselves, since those have a slightly metallic look to them and are a different flat black. I'm gonna try that on my next bird, I think!

Hi.. I always mix my own colours when I am using a brush.. Now this may sound a little funky.. But for my Apache. I mixed a smiggen of chrome silver in with the flat black.. It gives it a flat black look as well as a metal look .. I always use it for my aircraft interiors.. Justa suggestion..

Chris in Japan

So if I mix a tiny amount of gray in with some black, I should be good? I ask because my LHS doesn't carry the 2000 series of MM paints, and the nearest one that does is 40 miles south of me.

And thanks for the links!

Interior is all flat black so as not to interfere with night vision goggles. The best paint for it is Testors Model Master Aircraft Interior Black. It is dead flat with a little gray tint and looks great.

Here are a couple of walkarounds of Apaches with some interior pics as well.
http://212.158.133.3/hwa/martin_hamersmid/AH-64A/index.htm
http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com/AWA1/001-100/walk072_Apache/walk072.htm
http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com/AWA1/001-100/walk072_Apache/part2/walk072b.htm

Good luck.