[Billfish]

Aotake, was NOT to be used as a cockpit finish.....It was a catch all finish used to simply coat interior components for a finish, to even much like we'd use bluing to scribe lines on.....It's color ranged form almost clear lacquer, to greens, blues, yellows, etc.. This very well described and outlined in "Japanese Aircraft Equipment, by Robert Mikesh", along with it the whys as to color shifts, and to even how much more varied it could shift due to UV, water, air, etc., hence the environment.

Now I've heard it stated often as a "grass yellow/green"......Well here it is after a number of years protected...Yet simply 1 varient of it.


Now look at this and consider the colors of the various knobs and such....This the same cockpit shown above looking down onto the seat:


Lastly have a read at this......Yet I do not believe the cockpit interior to be Aotake......Yet still not buying into that "yellow".....From Japanese Aircraft Equipment, by RObert Mikesh, ISBN 0-7643-2097-1