Pfalz silver grey?

[lars qvarfordt]

As I paint in Humbrols you have to convert to your chose of paint.

Start with flat Red brown 100 or Scarlet 60
to take off that "Reddish" use a little Flat Leather 62 and Black 33. We talking little here. There you have the base. To get it ligther add little Flesh 61

Do not use black only or white with red colour, you get brown or pink.
I´ve learned this when painted figures some years ago. But thats another story.
hope this will help you. I don´t wanna confuse you

You got a real nice Albatros there on your site

Lars

[Romani]

Sorry for being late in the response. I am surprised that Messier Stephen Lawson says that it was light blue + aluminium powder. I seem to recall that the recipe used in the original aircraft was a expedient solution using the pigments then available in quantity, light gray and aluminium powder, and as time passed, later aircraft had a lesser content of metallic powder and were more greyish looking than the silvery look of initial DIII batches.

I can't find in my archive files the thread of when this was discussed before in the Aerodrome. Can anybody confirm on this? I think the proportions were at first 50%.

[bobs_buckles]

Thanks Lars,

I use acrylic paints with an airbrush.
I will try mixing different shades on plastic card to get a feel for the colour.

Thanks for your kind words regarding my Alb.

Bob Von Buckles

[StephenLawson]

Originally Posted by Romani

Sorry for being late in the response. I am surprised that Messier Stephen Lawson says that it was light blue + aluminium powder. I seem to recall that the recipe used in the original aircraft was a expedient solution using the pigments then available in quantity, light gray and aluminium powder, and as time passed, later aircraft had a lesser content of metallic powder and were more greyish looking than the silvery look of initial DIII batches.

I can't find in my archive files the thread of when this was discussed before in the Aerodrome. Can anybody confirm on this? I think the proportions were at first 50%.

Romani, My response was for a question posed earlier about the Pfalz D.XII. Not for the Pfalz D.III.

Originally Posted by Kitboy

Since we are talking about this typical Pfalz color. Should the fuselage of the DXII )early version' have the same color=

Greetings, Nico

[melsharkskin]

This is taking a bit of a turn from the topic, but I'd like to get it out there:

I was faced with finding a silver-gray for a review of Eduard's 1/48 LE kit of a Bolshevik Nieuport 17 a couple of years ago, and wasn't happy with anything I'd tried. I was on a tight deadline, so in desperation, I took some Model Master Acrylic Aluminum, which had been stashed after having proven virtually worthless both in airbrush and conventional application. It was short of pigment, and tended to cluster and was just lousy in every way. And I tried another bottle, since I had two, and got the same result. So I put them away and forgot them.

Then, just for the heck of it, I pulled one of those bottles of MM Acrylic Aluminum out and added a little Misterkit Light German Gray to it, and it showed promise. Then I kept adding Mister Kit until I had about 1/3 gray to 2/3 MM Aluminum. Voila! It was perfect. And while I now use Misterkit's fine French Aluminum for my Nieuports, if you are in a pinch, and have some of that awful MM Acrylic Aluminum (all MM acrylic metalics are the same, and I avoid them completely), try my recipe. And I imagine just about any compatible light gray acrylic will do the job. It also might work on those German or Austro-Hungarian a/c that call for silbergrau.
TOM