Color: Fokker D.VII nose colors

**ReducedAirFact** · 08-19-2021 14:30

Fokker D.VII noses (the metal parts) were usually painted in a green-gray which started fairly dark and faded over time. On O.A.W.-built machines, the panels and metal were partially overpainted with a rough "camouflage pattern" in lilac. (The primary source for the colors is Windsock Datafile #9: Fokker D.VII.)

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; 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
38.9,-5.51,4.36 RGB #555E54	Beauti-tone Deep Sea Shadow C4-1-0480-3 or Pleasant Hill C47-1-0469-3 Behr Pinecone Hill N410-6 or Pastoral PPU10-20 Benjamin Moore Dakota Shadow 448 or Backwoods CC-630 * Dulux Granite Green 50YGy 13/064 FS595c 24112 * Kelley-Moore Irish Moss KM3888-5 PPG Evergreen Boughs 1129-7 RAL Effect 840-5 Sherwin Williams Shade-Grown 6188 or Pewter Green 6208 Valspar Oatlands Shutter Green or Belmont Green 5005-4C	~Vallejo 70.893 US Dark Green * Humbrol 245 RLM74 Graugrun Testors 1988 Tamiya XF-51 Olive Drab Reaper 9088 Stormy Gray
57.8,-8.6,5.4 RGB #7E8F81	Beauti-Tone Dowager 0442 Behr Underground Gardens N420-4 Benjamin Moore Garden Oasis 669 Dulux Main Street USA 30GY 30/100 Farrow & Ball Castle Gray 92 FS595c 24226 Kelley-Moore Appalachian Forest KM4810 Pantone 2407U PPG Paradise Found 1135-5 RAL Pointed Cabbage Green 150 60 10 Sherwin-Williams Privilege Green 6193 Valspar Ginkgo Tree 5006-4B	~ Vallejo 70.987 Medium Gray ~ Humbrol 167 Barley Gray ~ Tamiya 80322, XF22 ~ Reaper 9084 Pale Lichen
64.6,-10.1,5.7 RGB #8DA292	Beauti-Tone Heavenly Garden C47-3-0457-0 Behr Forest Path N400-4 * Benjamin Moore Grenadier Pond 698 * Dulux/Glidden Fern Forest 79GY 36/106 Farrow & Ball Chappell Green 83 FS595c 24300 Kelley-Moore Cavern Moss 4825 Pantone 2406U ~ PPG Spruce Shade 1136-5 ~ Sherwin-Williams Jasper Stone 9133 Valspar Field of Pines 5004-4A	~ Vallejo 70.990 Light Gray ~ Vallejo 70.971 Green-Gray ~ Humbrol 166 Light Aircraft Grey ~ Testors 1226 ~ Tamiya 86511, AS11 ~ Reaper 29834 Field Gray
61,20.3,-18.6 RGB #AB87B5	~ Beauti-Tone Satin Flower A32-3-1185-4 ~ Behr Celeb City M570-5 or Daylight Lilac 660B-6 ~ Benjamin Moore Purple Hyacinth 207-40 ~ Dulux/Glidden Dignity 40RB 36/264 ~ Kelley-Moore Prince 5553 * Pantone 521U PPG Purple Statice 1249-5 RAL Nightshade Violet 320 60 25 * Sherwin-Williams Kismet 6830 Valspar Gleeful Joy 1001-3C	~ Reaper 9024 Amethyst Purple