German Green and Mauve
Green and Mauve Paint Choices
I'm happy with mix of Gunze acrylics for this colour which I used recently on the 1/72 Eduard Albatros D.Va. It was a mixture of H42 blue gray and H3 red. Can't recall the exact proportions, but I think it was about 70% blue gray and 30% red. Obviously one needs to adjust the amount of red to taste (don't take that too literally! If the smell is anything to go by, the taste will be bloody awful).
I'm also a believer in Dicta Ira. One of the good things about WW1 aircraft modelling is that there is enough uncertainty about colours to enable one to use a fair degree of discretion without fear of definitive correction (in most cases).
Post by David Solosy. Excerpt from the WWI Modeling List Archives.
I've used PS German Mauve on a couple of Albatrii, and been pretty pleased with the results. I also used Testor's MM Napoleonic violet on the model of Lt. Max Nather's DVa, and IMVVHO, it turned out pretty nice as well. Mauve beauty is in the eye of the beholder/builder!
Post by Gabe Limon. Excerpt from the WWI Modeling List Archives.
For PC-10, I like Poly-Scale "PC-10" They also, in their previous incarnation, Poly-S, had a nice color called "Dark Earth" that I liked. Both of these are water based acrylics and are very easy to use. They also make a Fokker Green and Mauve that I like. For the streaky Fokker look, I like to use a wash from ModelMasters of Sable Brown Metallic. I let it set a few days in the bottle, and then use what floats to the top for the wash over CDL (clear doped linen) or Blue. For CDL I love Modern Desert Sand.
Post by Mike Muth. Excerpt from the WWI Modeling List Archives.
As with you I'm more partial to grey green as opposed to light gray on most panels for factory new German or at least Albatros products. I would hazard that the the low numbered RLM colors have their genesis in common use World War I colors and pigments. Even WWII grau-grun/grau-violet may be a development of dark green/mauve if you think about it. US Olive Drab is a development of Field Drab which in itself developed from PC 10.
Post by Micheal S Alvarado. Excerpt from the WWI Modeling List Archives.
There is a Polyscale acrylic called "German Mauve" which at the violet end of mauve/purple then there's a colour from Humbrol called something like "German WWI purple" which is more at the red/wine/claret end and darker.
Post by Michael Kendix. Excerpt from the WWI Modeling List Archives.
IMHO, there is not a good, straight from the bottle match for the German Mauve/Purple. I have used both Polly S Mauve and Humbrol WWI purple. The mauve is a tad too light and the WWI purple is a tad too dark, IMHO to recreate the mauve wing camo found on German airplanes. I find it easier to lighten the Humbrol shade by adding about 20% flat white, but YMMV.
Post by Bob Laskodi. Excerpt from the WWI Modeling List Archives.
FWIW if you mix Red/Brown with German underside Turquoise you get German Purple. I just wonder...............
Post by Peter Leonard. Excerpt from the WWI Modeling List Archives.
Testor's Model Master Napoleonic Violet Polly S Eyestalk Violet: Not sure how available this is any more, but it's a good dark violet color. It's one of their fantasy colors.
Post by Otis Goodin. Excerpt from the WWI Modeling List Archives.