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So I Have Been Reading Up On Interior Colors About The P-40's And People Are Saying They Used Curtiss Green But They Began Using The Color In 1942.So Did The P-40's Have Yellow Or Green Chromate Or Where They Natural Metal Colored During Pearl Harbor?
Although the P-40 did have their own zinc chromate color called Curtiss cockpit green, I’d go with the green zinc chromate.
Here it is from the Sage of military paint/coverings and markings, Dana Bell:
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/hyperscale/viewtopic.php?f=149674&t=100628&p=424030&hilit=p+40b+cockpit+color#p424030
Also, here for P-40B/C's on the Curtiss assembly line. The blue coated fuselages and NMF aircraft are RAF or AVG Tomahawks so disregard those:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/35963591@N00/sets/72157622864527612/
WIP: Monogram 1/72 B-26 (Snaptite) as 73rd BS B-26, 40-1408, torpedo bomber attempt on Ryujo
Monogram 1/72 B-26 (Snaptite) as 22nd BG B-26, 7-Mile Drome, New Guinea
Minicraft 1/72 B-24D as LB-30, AL-613, "Tough Boy", 28th Composite Group
I read somewhere that there was a paint factory near the Curtiss plant that supplied the paint. Perhaps that’s where the word “DuPont“ came from. I recall a dark green for the pit and ZC for everything else.
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Looks Interior Green to my eye, or something close to it...
if you scroll thru the photos here in this Life photo essay you can see most of the interior and exterior colors, and various production phases of B/C P-40s...
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/155f8d711c90f555.html
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