Kimmo;
Hi!
It's moving along!
I'd say that elfenbein on the full walls is likely correct. I know that elfenbein figured frequently in German AFV as the standard wall color, and I have not seen anything to suggest that they did part of the side-wall in one color and part in another, so... whole wall should be it.
There has been near-endless discussions of German tank interior schemes... My take on this one is that the floors generally were dark green, the big heavy-metal items (tranny, brake assemblies, etc.) some "OEM factory finish color" such as satin-black or maybe a dark gray (like your's), and side-walls and compartment ceiling elfenbein. The inside surfaces of those side hatches will be your outside base color.
Small interior operating fittings - handles, vision-block frames, etc., were probably black OEM enamel. Handle grips could have been leather-wrapped or wood and thus leathery-brown. Small clips and racks for crew equipment probably were same as wall color. The radio-frame was probably an "add-on OEM item" and likely came painted sand or dunkelgelb enamel and probably not repainted once installed inside. The radios were dark gray or green or matt black faces, with gray or maybe dunkelgelb cases. Dash-board / instrument cluster panel probably satin-black.
A feature often not addressed by us modelers but common to German AFV crew compartments is that virtually everything stowed in that compartment had a designated rack or clip-mount and that mount was stenciled - "Grenaten", "MP 40", etc. I think doing some of this would add quite a bit to this little tank inside - I'm definitely thinking of doing some "location stencils" when I build this one!
Bob
