Dauntless, rear deck bottles?

[RexCag]

Yes, it is fairly bright.

To see the color, you might look at Yellow Wings Decals website, I am sure one of their sheets is of the Green section. Or you could look at Starfighter Decals site, I know that they have that color on some of their 1/72 sheets.

[scorpiomikey]

Right in their logo even! lol
Thanks heaps. I think i have that green around, but will probably buy some more tomorrow night.

[Stikpusher]

That green looks pretty close to the little square bottle Testors green enamel. Or one of the Humbrol colors. Worst case, it is easily mixed from blue and yellow...

[scorpiomikey]

Any recommendations in acrylic? I normally go with Tamiya, but ive been using a lot more valejo recently.

[Stikpusher]

I'd suggest X-28 Park Green or X-15 Light Green in that order, from the Tamiya line. I don't use Vallejo very often.

[Fermis]

I google "WW2 era oxygen bottle"...there seems to be several shades. This example seemed to be "in the middle".

I can't give a definitive answer to the color of the extinguisher...I do know that at some point, they were a brass color, before red became standard.

[scorpiomikey]

Is there any information on about what year they changed from brass to red? (Why do i feel like im opening a can of worms here)

Edit: finding a lot of brass ones from 1943, less so red ones. So im wondering if painting it brass would be not wrong.

[Stikpusher]

The red extinguisher came off a restored SBD that they pulled out of Lake Michigan and restored to original condition in the Detail and Scale book. It is not a free use extinguisher like the one in your photo, but plumbed into the aircraft. Possibly for the engine compartment? Now if you're building a SBD-5, those came off the production line and entered service in mid 1943 or so. The red is more likely than the bare metal bottle.

[scorpiomikey]

Oh, excellent. Thanks Stik.