The uniforms were olive color according to the Star Wars Costume book.
From what I’ve seen of behind the scenes photos and such, this olive color seems to be accurate. Certain lighting may have changed that slightly in the final film, plus 35mm film tends to go a little bit green in shadowy areas, but I don’t think it’s anywhere near the deep green that I’ve seen in a lot of restorations here.
If you work under the assumption, as I tend to do, that they weren’t trying to do weird, unnatural looking things with the colors, then you can correct Death Star walls to look mostly grey, and low and behold, tarkin’s uniform comes out looking olive.
Do you have a picture of what you are thinking the color would have looked like? Or are my examples of the color several posts ago, fairly accurate?
I’m no expert on the accurate color, but just based on what seems natural and working from the assumption like I said that they probably weren’t trying to do anything unnatural and weird with the color, I’d say your example seems to be pretty damn close.
I agree with you that they probably weren’t trying to do anything incredibly unnatural with the color (overly green, red, etc). But whether or not that means grey walls probably depends on each individual set. In some cases, where the sets were blue or blue/green, surely the grey timing is the unnatural timing?
Most all of the good quality publicity photos and or stills of the Death Star interior that I have seen, both past and current, show the walls to be a dark grey, but there does seem to be some shots/scenes that have other colors on them…mainly do to lighting, I think. I am not certain though, that I dare rely on my memory from seeing it in '77 to say if those are correct, or not.
Edit…I dare saying after doing a bit more research, that all the walls were painted dark grey, and then lit colorfully, when needed or desired, to give scenes “lively hood” if it was deemed necessary. Also, there are some scenes in the Death Star, where Hans shirt is a bright yellow, and after properly correcting them, miraculously, the walls turn closer to the dark grey.