wing walk areas.

[Glenn]

While building the XB-51 I have come up with a slight problem! On viewing the aircraft from above, noticed that the 'wing walk area' is a different shade than the overall silver finish. Looking at USN aircraft, ( Hawkeyes) the area is in a gunmetal grey....what do you suggest?
Glenn

[Go4fun]

Your favorite brand of gun metal colored paint? I've found out there are several shades with the same name sold under different brand names.

[Captain Canada]

I've always used a flat gray like slate or Testors battleship. From what I've seen, the walkways are always a matt colour and roughed for anti-slip grip ?

But if going gunmetal you can't miss with good old Humbrol 53 !

[Glenn]

Thanks for your help....
Glenn

[jcf]

Not wing walks, corogard/coroguard anti-corrosion coating, aluminized clear epoxy, over the
wing box-spar area. Common on jets to this day, military and civil. Airliner modelers often
have decal options.

Tommy Thomason piecec on corogard and USN usage:
http://tailspintopics.blogspot.com/2012/01/corogard.html

[PR19_Kit]

And you can get Corogard in decal form too. It's very common in the 1/144 airliner model world and most civvie decal companies do it, usually for specific airliner types, but plain Corogard sheets are available too. Of course a 747 sheet would do about 4-5 1/72 scale fighters!