Potez XXV colour?

[JohnMacG]

In the 1930s the French AdlA painted their Potez XXVs (as well as those built in France for foreign buyers) an overall 'dark green'. Does anybody know of an FS # equivalent or a ready-mix paint for this green?

Some French sources seem to suggest using Humbrol #30, but I'm suspicious - I think it would be the first time I've ever found a real use for that particular colour.

TIA

[VG 33]

At the time French dark green was close to FS 34128 so Humbrol 30 is a way.

Patrick

[JohnMacG]

Hmmm...... I checked 34258 on the FS color database ( - http://www.colorserver.net/ ) and it seems a bit too light to be the 30s 'dark green' used on the P.XXV. (And yes, I known that it's very hard to tell colours from B&W photos, which is all we have, obviously).

BTW, is 34258 the same as the French WW2 camo colour 'kaki'?

[JohnMacG]

Hmmm...... I checked 34128 on the FS color database ( - http://www.colorserver.net/ ) and it seems a bit too light to be the 30s 'dark green' used on the P.XXV. (And yes, I known that it's very hard to tell colours from B&W photos, which is all we have, obviously).

BTW, is 34128 the same as the French WW2 camo colour 'kaki'?

[JohnMacG]

Sorry, slip of my ageing fingers - I did MEAN '34128'!

[occa]

[JohnMacG]

Yep, very colourful bird! The red & white fuselage stripes denote a target-tug, while otherwise it's in full Vichy-Indo-China markings.

I've come across this website -

http://ipmsstockholm.org/colorcharts/stuff...arts_france.htm

which suggests 14052 as an overall colour for the P.XXV. Now, 14052 is a bit darker than *4128 and seems much more likely to me. I've found a ready-mix in WEM's armour colour paint range, which has '24052' (USMC Forest Green), so I think I'll get a tin of that and see what it looks like.