NOTE: Regarding Fiat G.50 Interiors (Riccardo Trotta):
"? in the magazine Aerofan 1/1981 there is an article which reports some parts of the official book "Istruzioni e norme per il montaggio, la regolazione e la manutenzione" C.A. 381 referring to the Fiat G50 2° series CMASA, May 1940 (practically a maintenance manual) so before the issue of Tavola 10, and about the internal side of the fuselage, it says " Tutte le parti interne della fusoliera sono verniciate con vernice antiruggine grigia" ... the translation is: "All the internal fuselage parts are painted with grey anticorrosion painting"; I don't know if this grey is the same as Grigio Azzurro Chiaro, but it is surely a grey"
To summarise, before the introduction of the "Tavola 10" regulations in 1941, there was no officially sanctioned colours and companies followed their own internal procedures. In general the surfaces were first coated with a primer and then the final colour was applied, although the various steps depended on the material to be covered.
It is known that there were both greenish and grey primers and also different colours were used in the cockpits. the G.50 entered production well before the Tavola 10 was issued and it is known that Fiat painted their fighters in a light grey. The use of light grey is explicitly mentioned in the assembly and maintenance manual for the type, even for the early series. This kind of manual were prepared by the manufacturer, so we can assume that light grey was the colour used during production. The only surviving G.50 also has the cockpit in a light grey.
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