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Dark-ish Gull Grey.  The rear pits and tunnel were also coated in a fine film of vomit, cleaning fluid, spilt coffee and Gatorade, boot scuff marks, impact marks from slamming the computers into working order.....plus there was very little light back there...so some mold or other "growing" things seemed to appear here and there.

 

Not that I would every have done any of the above in my years flying the aircraft. 

 

Cheers

Collin

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5 hours ago, Collin said:

Dark-ish Gull Grey.  The rear pits and tunnel were also coated in a fine film of vomit, cleaning fluid, spilt coffee and Gatorade, boot scuff marks, impact marks from slamming the computers into working order.....plus there was very little light back there...so some mold or other "growing" things seemed to appear here and there.

 

Not that I would every have done any of the above in my years flying the aircraft. 

 

Cheers

Collin

That's awesome! Thanks for the laugh!

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On 7.9.2017 at 4:56 PM, Collin said:

Dark-ish Gull Grey.  The rear pits and tunnel were also coated in a fine film of vomit, cleaning fluid, spilt coffee and Gatorade, boot scuff marks, impact marks from slamming the computers into working order.....plus there was very little light back there...so some mold or other "growing" things seemed to appear here and there.

 

Not that I would every have done any of the above in my years flying the aircraft. 

 

Cheers

Collin

Now who will be the first to re-create this in his next Viking build? :-)

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On ‎9‎/‎7‎/‎2017 at 10:56 AM, Collin said:

Dark-ish Gull Grey.  The rear pits and tunnel were also coated in a fine film of vomit, cleaning fluid, spilt coffee and Gatorade, boot scuff marks, impact marks from slamming the computers into working order.....plus there was very little light back there...so some mold or other "growing" things seemed to appear here and there.

 

Not that I would every have done any of the above in my years flying the aircraft. 

 

Cheers

Collin

What would be the FS# for that.:rolleyes:

 

Geoff M

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Not to throw a monkey wrench in the machinery but I thought a beige color was appropriate. I googled "S-3 Viking interior" and several pics came up and they show the consoles for the SENSO/TACCO and some of the trim work is a beige or buff. Some of the avionics by contrast are DDG. The pilot's area is DDG for sure but I remember crawling in one where the curtain between compartments was also that color.

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19 hours ago, BillS said:

Not to throw a monkey wrench in the machinery but I thought a beige color was appropriate. I googled "S-3 Viking interior" and several pics came up and they show the consoles for the SENSO/TACCO and some of the trim work is a beige or buff. Some of the avionics by contrast are DDG. The pilot's area is DDG for sure but I remember crawling in one where the curtain between compartments was also that color.

Do you mean DGG (Dark Gull Gray)?

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Check out these reference photos and match the buff color to what you see.  The rear pits were plastic covered with this baked on beige/buff color to them...and it pealed off a lot.  The NASA photo below shows that pretty well.

 

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This guy got the colors pretty well matched:

 

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