Brad,
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I figured that like all German WW1 cockpit metal work, the metal components would be painted for protection (this is bourne out by accounts of junkers aircraft still being flyable after being left out in the weather for 3 months after the end of the war)
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I do not know whether or not the interior was painted, but your reasoning does not hold. Aluminum is not subject to corrosion the same way as iron. The outside layer rapidly oxidizes, but this thin oxide coat inhibits further corrosion. Bare aluminum would probably suffer little from three months of exposure.
The model does look good in your grey-green.
Steve