[WWI] PC 10

[Hooper, Dave]

As I recall the origins of US Olive drab can be traced back to PC10. It
would therefore be reasonable to assume that Olive drab is in the same
ball park as PC10. Personally, I Iike to mix (for acrylics) Tamiya Olive
Drab with Khaki Drab adding a touch of white in to the mix until I am
happy with the result, but this is more down to how I personally see
PC10 rather than having any historcal basis. Saying that I was pleased
to note that my mix of PC10 was very close to a paint chip of the
standard early US interwar shade of Olive Drab no.22 recently. As this
colour was basically the American attempt at matching PC10 I don't think
my mix was too far out.

 

Regards

 

Dave

 

   

 

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From: wwi-bounces at wwi-models.org [mailto:wwi-bounces at wwi-models.org] On
Behalf Of Shane Weier
Sent: 10 July 2008 08:53
To: World War I Modeling Mailing List
Subject: Re: [WWI] PC 10

 

Warren says:
 
> I'm back! :) 
 
Me too, sort of. I came back weeks ago, and since then have had at best
infrequent oportunity to read, much less contribute.
 
> If memory serves, I remember StE stating that he
> used one of the Testors MM olive drabs that is common to the line, the
> stock# and/or FS# escapes me now. If you want it greener, add yellow,
if you
> want it browner, add red. Pretty simple really, especially since no
one, to
> my knowledge, has really and truly nailed this color down.
 
Doesn't have to be Testors. I use Gunze too.  Any brand of FS34087 is
very close to the shade used on most of the museum restorations. While
one can question restorations as being an inferior source to originals,
I'm willing to accept that if the RAF Museum, AWM and Smithsonian think
it's close enough, it's close enough.
 
It's interesting though, that they've all presumably used proper
scientific methods to remake the paint and come up with almost the same
shade tint...
 
By the by, I use green to make it greener, and red-brown to make it
browner, but I don't ever range too far off, because making multiple
RFC/AFC/RAF aircraft with widely varying colours looks *odd* to me. I
suspect that the variability of the colour is exagerated and note that
it's damed difficult to see much difference in any photo lineup of PC.10
aircraft.
 
FWIW as normal
 
StE
 
nb     Errrrm. Something in 1/72 and 1/48, both OT

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