Pfalz Color Queries

Craig · 15 February 2002, 07:53 AM

1. Who makes the perfect (aka accurate) Pfalz silbergrau paint?

2. I've seen a few illustrations of Pfalz D.III/IIIa fighters with the wooden struts varnished - no silbergrau paint. No photographs I've ever seen corroberate this. Were ANY of them produced this way?

Thanks in advance for any and all responses.

Craig

PeterL · 15 February 2002, 09:01 AM

Craig asks: "1. Who makes the perfect (aka accurate) Pfalz silbergrau paint?"

You do Craig. Just a dob of matt white in your favourite aluminium will do the trick. Sorry, I have no metric equivalent for a dob which is, of course, an imperial measure.

Craig · 15 February 2002, 09:34 AM

Thanks, Peter.
Now, I'm not going to quibble over what constitutes a "dob", but into how much of "my favorite aluminum" do I deposit this "dob"?
A ratio of . . what-to-what?

Any knowledge 'bout them struts?

Cheers to ya

StephenLawson · 16 February 2002, 10:51 AM

All Pfalz D.III and D.IIIa struts were fabric wrapped then aluminum *doped. *At least one captured example was stripped down and I believe that this varnished strut anomally came from photos of the captured example. *Also there were several that had their struts painted at the Jasta level. *This was usually the unit i.d. colour. *STL

16 February 2002, 05:19 PM

You may also do an early Pfalz D.III in mauve and green camo.
Undersurfaces probaly Pfalz silbergrau

* * * * * * * * * *Les 8)

18 February 2002, 11:08 AM

Craig;

"Who makes the perfect silvergrau color"? If you are asking about hobby paints the only one I know that makes one pre-mixed is Misterkit - how accurate it is, I dont know.

Most hobbyists that I know (including myself) mix their own.Actually, the term "silvergrau' is misleading as the actual color was aluminum with a grayish tint!

For what its worth, I use Testor's Aluminum metallizer with 30
per cent light gray.

StephenLawson · 5 November 2002, 03:49 PM

My version of Siver-Grey

NeilE · 5 November 2002, 11:27 PM

Hi Craig;

I'm doing the Eduard Pfalz D-IIIa at the moment... I'm thinking 50% Light grey (Maybe RLM 63) and 50% aluminium. Then again I might cut the % of the aluminium down.....

All the Best

Neil

Barker · 6 November 2002, 12:33 AM

Hi Neil-

fwiw-
I tinkered with this and came up:
The same ratio's you mention, but trade a bit of white in the silver-
50% rlm 63, 30% metallic, 20% white and a spot of med blue. The metal dust is very subtle at that point and seems to scale. A nice contrast to the 'unpainted' straight metal bits. I like Hans' Pfalz - nice balance.

cheers-Ken

Scimitar · 6 November 2002, 07:02 AM

http://www.misterkit.com

In the index, see the MisterKit colors: ref MKGC17 German Pfalz Silbergrau.

Hope that can be of some interrest for you...