mustang1989
Hey Brandon,
I've been waiting on color reference shots for the interior and can't find a single color reference shot for the entire interior area. I've got a shot of the instrument panel and one small shot of the radios in the middle of the interior but that's it. What did you use for color reference for your interior on your Kitty Hawk Kingfisher?
Kittyhawk calls for Field Green FS34097 throughout the interior with exception of radios and equipment like that. This is a US verions Fisher and the Brits may have used completely different colors inside. Since there are very very few examples left in the world, non of which are airworthy we can only make educated guesses. Unless you dig into documents for that time that lay out the specs. I basically finally said, "green will do, there isn't anyone around who can argue its wrong." Black inside a kit like this you won't be able to see anything. So I went interior green and other greens to layer it up and highlight and provide depth. Getting this to "actual, correct accuracy" is just not a big deal to me as long as it looks like a bird from that era. Basically, what colors were F4's, devastators and other Navy planes from that time using.
This is the image I used to decide that green interior was the way to go. I know its a museum piece and not to rely too much on accuracy from those, but it was likely visually repainted using what the bird already had to start with, I hope. Anyway, the historical pics really don't lend themselves to seeing what the color was to to black and white photos and poor lighting on color and colorized photos. Basically, you have to decide what you want. I have a ton of details inside and I want to see it, black won't allow that in scale, so green it is. Hope this helps.
BK