Just been reading through an instruction sheet i have for a Me262 kit. And it's calling for RLM66 for the cockpit (i agree) but also RLM02 for the wheel bays, gunbay and inside the fuselage. I thought they were natural metal? Anyone shed some light on this?
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Hi Allyne may not be much help but iv'e just finished the 1/72 frog version of the ME262 and RLM02 was the colour called for the wheel bays and undercarrage -
This is a bit of a can of worms!
On the prototypes and probably early production versions these areas were given a coat of RLM 02 although a couple of pictures (of prototypes) seem to show a darker colour,let's not go there.
On production aircraft the main wheel bay area,including the hemi-cylyndrical bottom of the cockpit tub were usually unpainted.
The gun bay is a tougher call. Later ones were unpainted though the two structural bars (who's name I've forgotten) often were RLM 02. They probably came from somewhere else and were delivered like this.
It's an either or on the front wheel bay too. I did my last one RLM 02 for a bit of variety! Unless you've got a good picture noone can say that you are wrong either way. On a very late production machine I wouldn't paint it.
Inside of gear doors? I'd leave the main ones unpainted but RLM 02 or even RLM 76 are possible. This one is always tricky because they are always in shadow!
The gear legs are RLM 02.
Cockpit,as you say,RLM 66.
Cheers
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Cheers guys
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