Color: Austro-Hungarian Phönix

**ReducedAirFact** · 02-17-2018 12:43

Austro-Hungarian Phönix aeroplanes were usually painted in either a mottled brown camouflage¹ or a green. Naval Phönix planes (like the Phönix D.III) may have been in a light gray. The source for the colors is Windsock Datafile 31: Phönix D.I-II. I have ignored the R.G.Gerrard colors because their provenance is dubious.

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.

¹ = most look like the dark brown color below sponge-painted over the light brown color.

Methuen/CIElab	House Paints and Standards	Hobby Paints
Brown 1 LAB 57.8,9.6,46.6 RGB#B08337	Beauti-Tone/Cloverdale Millionaire B1-1-0907-3 Beauti-Tone/Cloverdale Unforgetabbly Gold B2-1-0900-3 Behr Wild Ginger M270-7 Benjamin Moore Medieval Gold 2152-10 * Dulux/Glidden Spiced Mustard 10YY 24/467 * * PPG Butterscotch Ripple 1106-7 * RAL Design 080 60 50 Sherwin-Williams Cut the Mustard 6384 Valspar Pumpkin Squash 3009-5	~ Vallejo Model Color Goldborwn 70.877 ~ ~ Vallejo Model Color Ochre Brown 70.856 ~ Reaper Sandy Brown 9249
Brown 2 LAB 40.4,5.4,25.7 RGB#755B35	Beauti-Tone/Cloverdale Queen Lioness D12-1-0284-3 Behr Clockworks MQ2-9 DIN6164 TSD 2-4-5 * Dulux/Glidden Olympic Bronze 20YY 12/263 * NCS 1950 S 6020-Y Pantone 7561C * PPG Muddy River 1098-7 * RAL Design 080 40 30 RAL Classic Khaki grey 7008 Sherwin-Williams Umber 6146	~ Vallejo Model Color US Field Drab 70.873 ~ Reaper Earth Brown 9029 ? Reaper Rich Leather 9429 ?
Green LAB 43.3,-5,15.5 RGB#68684D	Beauti-Tone Warren Tavern CC069-3 Behr Amazon Jungle PPU9-24 Benjamin Moore Banyan Grove OR-310 Cloverdale Jewel Box Green ST018 DIN6164 TSD 24-3-5 Dulux Tree Love 68YY 16/179 FS595C 24098 Little Greene Olive LG72 NCS 1950 S6020-G50Y Pantone 5743U PPG Rustling Leaves 1123-7 ~ Sherwin Williams Oakmoss 6180 ~ Valspar City Arboretum 6006-4C	* Vallejo Model Color Russian Uniform 70.924 * ~ Reaper Umber Brown 29849 ~?
Naval Grey LAB 86.5,-1.5,6.3 RGB#DAD9CC	Australian Std. Pearl Grey N11 * Beauti-Tone Chincoteague FD084-0 * * Behr Ginger Sugar MQ3-18 * Benjamin Moore Titanium OC-49 British Std. Silver BS9-093 * Cloverdale Saturnia 0369 * * Dulux Awakening Feel 82YY 67/045 * Dulux Trade Cornish Clay 70YY 73/083 Dulux Trade Khaki Mists 30YY 69/048 Farrow & Ball Ammonite 274 FS595c 27722 * Glidden Light Silver Sage 90YY 73/040 * Little Green Joanna LG130 NCS1950 S1002-Y Pantone 7527C * PPG Veil of Dusk 1029-2 * RAL Effect 840-2 RAL Classic Grey White 9002 * Sherwin-Williams Crushed Ice 7647 * Valspar Silver Splendor 7006-20	? Vallejo Model Color Silvergrey 70.883 ? ? Reaper MSP Undead Flesh 9447 ?

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

**matt56** · 02-17-2018 18:06

These colors look wonderful, Daryl! Great Vallejo choices for the A-H schemes...

Thanks again for all the work and thought you put into this thread of color choices for our repaints.

All the best,
Matt