UA526 - Regia Aeronautica Nocciola 4

Nocciola 4 - the hazel color of the Regia Aeronautica

The warm brown shade Regia Aeronautica Nocciola 4 belongs to the palette the Regia Aeronautica used during the Second World War. The Italian word nocciola means hazelnut and the color matches it: it is a mid brown with a yellowish undertone that worked as a camouflage base over the Mediterranean and North African landscape.

How Italian schemes were assembled

Italian camouflage was built differently from the American two-color finish with green above and gray below. Onto a lighter brown-yellow ground, blotches, rings or stripes of darker colors were applied, so the result read far more restless than uniform areas. On a number of machines the brown position formed exactly that ground on which the drawing itself only then arose. The number in the name is part of the period Italian naming of the shade, not a conversion into another coding system.

Typical use

• the camouflage ground on the upper surfaces of Italian aircraft
• blotches and drawing in schemes built on a darker base color
• brown areas of vehicles and accessories for Mediterranean dioramas
• toning and transitions where a warm brown without a red cast is needed

Who the color is for

It suits modelers who build the machines of the Regia Aeronautica and want the period palette together in one acrylic range. Because this is a generally usable mid brown, it will also serve outside Italian subjects, anywhere an earthy tone without a pronounced shift toward red is wanted.

Store the container well closed and out of the reach of children, and ventilate when working in an enclosed space.