I'm in the process of converting the Tamiya 1/72 Spitfire Mk.Ia into an early production model using the Model Alliance Conversion Kit. Does anyone have any info/opinions on the colour of early production Spitfire cockpit interiors?
Model Alliance give it as "a bright 'apple green' colour close to FS34138 or Humbrol 131 Satin Mid Green" (the latter is no longer available). Yet I seem to remember Gerald Scarborough, in his 1970s book on modelling the 1/24 Airfix Spitfire, stating that it was a "sickly green" colour, similar to "eau-de-nil" (a near-Sky colour that was a popular decorating colour in the 1930s).