Im working on modeling a fleet of mow equipment in csx colors, but im having trouble finding a suitable match for the green paint. can anyone help point me in the right direction?
Gidday, I personally wouldn't have a clue but here's a link that may help........
http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?3,2536148
Cheers, the Bear.
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firefighter-1177 Im working on modeling a fleet of mow equipment in csx colors, but im having trouble finding a suitable match for the green paint. can anyone help point me in the right direction?
Color can be kinda hard to pin down. Lighting, midday sunlight vs late afternoon sunlight vs incandecent vs fluorecent vs mercury vapor (street lights) makes a huge difference in how a color looks. Different brands of color film render colors differently, for example Kodachrome vs Agfachrome. Kodachrome loved red and yielded bright saturated color slides. And the color printing processes used in book printing add their own color biases. And, its rare to fined two batches of paint, even from the same manufacturer, that are exactly the same. And, once out in the weather, rain and sun fade most paints. And finally, the human eye adapts to changes in light and renders color the way it "ought to be" even if the lighting is late afternoon and biasing every thing with extra red. Notice how color appears normal even thru green or yellow sunglasses after a few minutes of adaptation. Notice how color appears odd for a few minutes after you take the colored glasses off.
So, unless you have a color chip (the actual paint, dry, on a bit of cardboard that has been stored out of sunlight, you cannot be sure of what the color ought to be. I would expect if you visited some paint stores and some auto parts stores, you could find a rattle can that was close enough.
David Starr www.newsnorthwoods.blogspot.com