As usual I'll pitch in with "PC10 is far more brown than green".... My preferred mix is 2 parts Vallejo Russian Uniform to 1 part Vallejo Burnt Umber. This gives just a hint of green in there, but overall a brown colour. As an idea of how "green" they were, this is the nose art cut off of an HP O/400, now at Hendon:
http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/k...gham/a1-24.jpg
Note that the tail number is I believe from the same aircraft, indicating just how variable an effect wear and tear could have. I'd guess that's pretty close to Vallejo Brown Violet, which might be a good pick for a factory-fresh paint job - generally exposure seems to have shifted the colour to looking less green and more brown, as well as simply fading it.
Dom.
PS - The odd couple of O/400s really were green used for testing the NIVO colour scheme (Night Invisible Varnish Somewhereorother) which was a very dark green. Tamiya XF-58 Olive Green is supposed to be a good match for this, but afaik it wasn't used as a standard colour on the HPs, just a couple of trial aircraft.
PPS - I'd do the undersides in the same PC10, not buff - they were NIGHT bombers, so it didn't take long to work out that a 100 foot off-white cross in the sky was kinda conspicuous - you often see artwork of them with clear doped linen undersides, but photos don't support that very often, if at all....
PPPS - The chunk of wing from another aircraft looks darker (may just be the lighting; it's in storage, not displayed) but again very much more brown than green.
http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/k...gham/a5-22.jpg (Also worth noting the relatively tiny roundels; sub-sized markings were usual on HPs, full "fits the wing" roundels much rarer.) OK, I'm definitely done now....
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