After a long break over the Christmas holidays I am almost ready to paint the Jagdtiger.
Yesterday I installed a couple more minor doo-dads on the hull, and all the tiny PE tie-down points on the hull.
After looking at another excellent JT in this site I may also box in the engne compartment top openings so you cant see inside to an empty shell.
I washed all the parts last night and now have a question before the paint flows.

Does anyone know if the 2 rear hull superstructure hatches were interior ivory colour on the inside or were they the exterior colour?

Dave;

As JagdTiger was a late-war AFV, and German practice appears to have shifted to routinely painting crew hatch interiors the base exterior color (likely the Dunkelgelb - probably even after the slight regulatory re-alignment to set the OliveGrun to be the "base coat" in late 1944 -), I think you would be best off doing your back doors in Dunkelgelb. The general idea of thus painting those hatches was probably to reduce something like air-visibility caused by a "white" spot against a camo / darker body. Engine compartment hatches may well have been rot-oxide primer on the interior side.

This-all said, the rear hatches on the JT maybe were rarely left open? Unlike our conventional wisdom and perceptions of Panzer III and IV tooling down the road with many doors and hatches wide-open (and crew hanging out), there is little, I think, known of how went practice with the JT - a rare beast and mostly in service in winter - spring 1945? They mostly weren't tooling around and getting photographed by the curious and envious!

Paint them gelb, IMO!

Bob

Bob,

Thanks for the info. I was possibly going to do a diorama with the JT, possibly having allied troops peeking into throught he doors, so they may be open.
I'll follow your advice just in case. Thanks.