Good afternoon guys! I am building the Tamiya Do335A-12 and I was wondering what the correct cockpit color should be. Is it a gray color or is it semi gloss black like the Tamiya instructions say? Thanks!
Colin 
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As far as I know, from about 1941 onwards standard cockpit paint was RLM 66, a very dark grey colour. I would go for that on a 335!
Magnus
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Cockpit would be gray, yes. Perhaps the black was meant for the instrument panels and they incorrectly indicated where it went?
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Yep thatâs true!
Thanks, I figured it was something like that.
@brekinapez , maybe, but it looked as though everything in the cockpit was either flat black or semi-gloss black. Thanks though!
My HKM instructions for this plane call for RLM 66 with some parts in RLM 02, but not even the IP is black; it is 66 as well which when I look at my other German AC is the case. The gauges have black faces.
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HKM actually suggests using Tamiya XF-22 for that color.
Why wouldnât Tamiya suggest that for their kit?
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Following that, I just went back and looked at my instructions again⌠Turns out that I missed the few times that Tamiya did say to paint some of the parts in XF-22. Thanks for yâallâs help anyway. 
I will say though that it would be better if there was something like âPaint all parts in XF-22 unless otherwise noted.â But I canât blame Tamiya for my blindness LOL
You could look at pictures of the Do 335 A-0 in the Udvar-Hazy Center of the NASM in DC; the cockpit for the A-12 is likely to be the same colors, and the A-0 was restored at the Dornier facility in Oberpfaffenhofen, so presumably has reasonably correct colors:
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Sidebar question 
Whatâs so radioactive in a German WW2 airplane that it has to have a Radiation Hazard tag?
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Radium paint on the dials would be my guess.
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Sean, thank you.
That makes sense.
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