Far easier if you get yourself a spraying can with white primer. Build the hull with most of the parts inside, but top and bottom separate, then spray it for far better coverage than you’ll get with model paint straight (never mind than if you brush-paint it).
I suspect they left the factory with OD floors, because that was the norm for American vehicles with open-topped hulls and/or turrets. I can’t find a usable scan of a TM online to check this, though (restored vehicles are suspect here, because people often make mistakes when painting them — think of Shermans with the insides of hatches painted white, for example).
[ICODE]Some more searching[/ICODE]
Ah, found one, on what feels like a slightly dodgy site, but it’s a good-quality scan of TM 9-743, Light Armored Car M8 of 10 March 1943. It includes this overhead shot:
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You can tell here that the interior floor has much the same colour as the outside of the vehicle, but that the interior walls are white. A view into the turret shows much the same:
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And the driver’s compartment:
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I suspect they left the factory with OD floors, because that was the norm for American vehicles with open-topped hulls and/or turrets. I can’t find a usable scan of a TM online to check this, though (restored vehicles are suspect here, because people often make mistakes when painting them — think of Shermans with the insides of hatches painted white, for example).
[ICODE]Some more searching[/ICODE]
Ah, found one, on what feels like a slightly dodgy site, but it’s a good-quality scan of TM 9-743, Light Armored Car M8 of 10 March 1943. It includes this overhead shot:
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You can tell here that the interior floor has much the same colour as the outside of the vehicle, but that the interior walls are white. A view into the turret shows much the same:
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And the driver’s compartment:
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