Ronald Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 Hello there would any one know where to find info on the color of most airliner wheels when the airliner is stationary Ronald Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ben Brown Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 Hi Ronald, Your best bet would be a google image search. If you can’t find what you’re looking for, light grey would be a safe bet. That seems to be the universal color for airliner wheels, gear struts, and doors. Ben Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ronald Posted April 9, 2020 Author Share Posted April 9, 2020 Quote ok thanks again Ben Ronald Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dylan Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 all the airliners I have worked on were painted white....buuuuttt Boeing has them sprayed with corrosion preventing compound. which looks like an oil leak. add to that actual oil/hydraulic leaks and you get a very sloppy looking gear well. on a model I would put a dirty brown wash over the white. I can take some pictures tomorrow when I am back to work. as Ben said struts, doors and wheels vary between grey and white. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dylan Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 did you want shots of the wheel wells or just the wheels? anyway here is a couple of shots, 767 and 757 this is the left wheel well of a 757 looking forward. it is painted white, but the cpc looks like a big oil leak. it gets touched up occasionally and you can see some sprayed on the door actuator this is the right well 757 nose here is a 767 main well. it is a bit cleaner than the 57, this one is recently out of a heavy check Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Trevor Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 Those 757 wheel-wells are nice and clean. On a 737, where they're closer to the ground and all the wonderful grim and fluids getting splashed in there, they turn almost black within a week of two of delivery. Even after a heavy washing, they still look terrible. Thanks to Covid, I'm unable to snap you a reference pic, but as far as 737s go, you really can't make them too dirty. Wheel hubs, and underside of gear doors get covered with a sticky layer of grim/soot and stay that way. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Captain Mark Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 Ronald you can get some decent shots on Airliners.net, it's usually my first go-to around the same time as a tried and true Google image search. I did a search on Airliners.net for 'wheel wells' and a handful of good shots similar to the excellent ones posted above came up on the first page. Click this link to go straight that search page 👍 Cheers. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dutch Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 Dylan, Beautiful reference photos! You're my "Go To Man" for airliners now! K/r, Dutch Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dylan Posted April 25, 2020 Share Posted April 25, 2020 13 hours ago, Dutch said: Dylan, Beautiful reference photos! You're my "Go To Man" for airliners now! K/r, Dutch whatever you need, just ask. I currently work on 757/767 but I can get most likely get access to a bunch more Quote Link to post Share on other sites
skyhawk174 Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 dylan those are so nice. Well the photos not the wheel wells 😀. I think for most of us, unless you are looking into the wheel wells on our models a simple wash as you say should be good enough. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SinisterVampire319 Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 Here is a FedEx 727 I took photos of at Sacramento. Looks familiar as per 757 photos above. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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