Wrong colours on Fw 190??

[Kissfan63]

Building the Pips Priller 190 and I am wondering if the colours are wrong for the upper wings??  It says use  27 and 79 but the 79 seems hardly discernible from the 27!!  Are these the right colours?  (Trying to copy some photos over but can't do it!!)

 

 

[Peter s]

I use Vallejo model air so I don't immediately recognise the codes you're quoting (Humbrol I guess?) but they may be right. For early war German planes using RLM70 and 71 (dunkelgraun and swartzgrun) the difference is pretty marginal so much so that at one point they were considered to be the same colour. Have a look at my "old v new stukas" post. I found a very nice original colour pic (from Signal magazine) of a Stuka and the difference between the two shades is pretty minimal. On a black and white photo it may seem one shade of green

There's a toss-up with modelling as to "do you go for max accuracy" or "do I make the prettiest model". I fall in somewhere between so would have no qualms darkening or lightening one or both colours if the increased contrast looks better. I find even on preserved examples there's a range of actual colours. I recently posted some pics of Just Jane (Lancaster) next to a Mosquito. Despite being allegedly the same shade of green on both they were quite different. Add in scale colour effect and a bit of sun fading and there is a margin for each colour.

[peebeep]

I would assume Priller's 190 was in the RLM 74/75/76 scheme. For 74/75 you could use Hu 245 and 246 (they're sold as RLM colours), There's not a great deal of contrast between them, but that's what was intended with the original scheme. If the kit you have is the old Aircraft of the Aces 190, then the paint callouts are the nearest matches they had at the time and are a fairly good match - there's not a great deal of difference between them and the newer RLM colours.

[Ratch]

When these kits were first issued (and the paint call outs printed) Humbrol didn't make RLM paints, so the call outs were for the nearest paint in their range. Lots of manufacturers do this, so its best to research the colours actually used on any given subject if you want to reproduce an accurate scheme