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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.

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

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...

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Oh, excellent. Thanks Stik.