Author Topic: Cockpit Interior Paint Color of Me 410 at RAF Museum Cosford ?  (Read 1925 times)

Offline KiwiZac

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Re: Cockpit Interior Paint Color of Me 410 at RAF Museum Cosford ?
« Reply #15 on: January 08, 2023, 08:30:00 AM »
hopefully by the end of the year.
That's a timeframe I think anyone would be comfortable with!  ;D

A poster at ARC shared a couple of photos of Cosford's machine for you here.
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Re: Cockpit Interior Paint Color of Me 410 at RAF Museum Cosford ?
« Reply #16 on: January 16, 2023, 07:46:58 AM »
From The Keeper on ARC:
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This link https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/documents/collections/85-AF-78-Me-410-420430.pdf 

indicates it's Not unrestored, it's last paint job probably 1986. That being said, paint certainly looks prototypical. The fuselage bay, interior, and cockpit framing look the right shade of farbton 66. Using this color looks too dark in scale so I would go with something lighter that gives a good representation of scale color. Most aircraft coming out of the factory in WW II usually show factory preservative paint like zinc chromate, RLM 02, etc. When the aircraft went in for a rehab, tune-up, etc. very often they would spray the bays with the underwing color.  This is why we get so many discussions on proper gear and bay color.

The NASM has an Me-410 awaiting restoration. Wish I could get in there with my FS-595a fan deck and do come comparisons.

Hope that helps,
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Re: Cockpit Interior Paint Color of Me 410 at RAF Museum Cosford ?
« Reply #17 on: January 17, 2023, 04:10:16 AM »
Zac,

Thanks for the 2 latest posts !

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Re: Cockpit Interior Paint Color of Me 410 at RAF Museum Cosford ?
« Reply #18 on: January 18, 2023, 07:51:26 AM »
No worries Ed  :)
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