interior color for german&american armour WWII?

Xtracolor (Hannants) enamels line also has a special
color for WWII german AFV interior. Its X818 German
WW II Tank Interior Buff. From what I know about the line,
this should be a very good match to the actual color.
The only problem: these paints are hard to get in the US
(see my previous posts on Xtracolor stuff).

Serge

For the most part, WW2 german tanks had a buff color interior. Testors has that particular color called Panzer interior. US primarily used white. Modern day US is primarily white but Bradleys and M113's use a pale green.

http://kithobbyist.com/AFVInteriors/

AFV Interiors is great. Make sure you visit the "archives" section

The germans at the beginning of the war had some complex colors for the interiors..You can see early tigers with a gray green color at the bottom and then a light ivory color on the sides and turret ...they then stopped using the gray green color and you can see red primer used in its place ...but by the end of the war the interior seems to have been left all in red oxide primer or a green primer was also seen.I hope this clear it up a bit ..NOT!! lol

Some of my sources showed pre/early war American armour with white hatch interiors, these were painted exterior color when the war started .

FSM has had several articles on the subject, and I can also recommend Panzer Modelling Masterclass by Tony Greenland.

Sort of an aside, Panzer 38's had white interiors, but they were originally Slovak tanks before the German occupation. That's the only German tank I've seen interior color photos of. I'm also interested in this because I'm starting a PzKpfw IV, Ausf. H (Mark IV special).

thank you jcarlberg and djmodels for replying from tom

Unless I'm mistaken, most AFV's interiors, for most nations, was and still is white - in order to reduce claustrophobia, I suppose -.

However, inside of hatches were usualy the same colour (or the main colour) as the outside (to reduce risks of being seen).

Open toped vehicles such as SdKfz 251, Marder III,.. had same colour everywhere although camouflage if any was only found on the outside surfaces.

Best bet is to check references, but most German armor was red oxide up to the hull bottom interior, then buff above that,except for hatch interiors which were exterior color. US vehicles were mostly white interiors, with, again, hatch cover interiors being OD.