Color: Italian Mottled Green/Brown Camouflage

**ReducedAirFact** · 05-27-2017 10:25

This article covers Italian mottled green/brown camouflage in the First World War, especially as used on Ansaldo planes. The primary source is Windsock Datafile 40: Ansaldo SVA5.

The usual caveats: As always, there was frequently variation in paint color, weathering, varnishing, etc., so this is just a general guide. Unless you've got a high-end, wide-gamut monitor in perfect calibration (and who does?), do not trust the colors you see on your monitor! Instead, visit your local paint store and see if you can find paint samples like the ones listed below and then match your hobby paints or mixes against those. The goal is just to "get close". See 'Color: why we'll never get it exactly right'.

Entries with an asterisk (*) are excellent matches; entries with question marks (?) have not been formally measured with a color meter and are therefore unconfirmed; hobby paints with tildes (~) are just very rough matches...the best we can do without a custom color mix.

Methuen/CIElab	House Paints and Standards	Hobby Paints
52.0,-32.4,13.0	~Beauti-Tone/Cloverdale On the Nile C35-2-0710-4 ~ Behr Turtle Creek M410-6 Benjamin Moore Nile Green 2035-30 Dulux/Glidden Jealousy 70GY 20/289 Pantone 348U PPG Mallard Green 1132-6 RAL Design 160 50 35 RAL Classic Signalgrün - Signal Green 6032 Sherwin-Williams Kilkenny 6740	tbd
49.41,-38.54,14.67	See Italian Roundel and Rudder Colors
36.4,-20,8.2	Beauti-Tone Jungle Advanture C33-1-0739-3 Behr Billiard Green M420-7 Benjamin Moore Fiddlehead Green 2041-20 Cloverdale Forest Green EX193 Dulux Dramatic Rainforest 80GY 11/195 FS595c 14109 DoT Highway Green Glidden Green Bank 90GY 10/250 PPG Country Club 1139-6 Sherwin-Williams Evergreens 6447 Valspar Wilderness 6009-5	~ Vallejo Model Color Military Green 70.975 ~ ~ Reaper MSP Highlands Moss 9083 ~
35.2,-24.7,9.6	Beauti-Tone On the Greens C34-1-1561-3 Behr Perennial Green M410-7 Benjamin Moore Rainforest Foliage 2040-10 British Std 5252: 14 D 45 Dulux Evergreen Song 85GY 10/193 Dulux Trade Dublin Bay 07GG 08/244 Glidden Green Bank 90GY 10/250 Pantone 554C PPG Brunswick 1132-7 Sherwin-Williams Shamrock 6454 Valspar Palace Green 6009-6	?? Vallejo Model Color German Uniform 70.920 ??

49.8,35.3,23.5	Beauti-Tone Brazen A10-2-1408-3 Behr Hacienda Tile MQ4-34 * Benjamin Moore Rosy Peach 2089-20 * Cloverdale Poppy Prose 0065 Dulux Terracotta Pot 20YR 18/404 Farrow & Ball Terre D'Egypte 247 Glidden Antique Brick Red 10YR 19/389 PPG Sienna Red 1057-6 RAL Classic Korallenrot - Coral Red 3016 Sherwin-Williams Foxy 6333 Valspar Savannah Red 1008-7B	? Vallejo Model Color Orange Brown 70.981 ?

Color matching with 1989 Methuen Handbook of Color and Nix Color sensor

**matt56** · 07-10-2017 05:57

Interesting choices here, Daryl! They are 'greener' and 'redder' than I would have thought. Do you think these would also be acceptable for Italian Hanriot HD1 schemes?

Thanks for always adding new info to the growing resources in this thread - for those of us who paint or repaint, it's a Godsend!

All the best,
Matt