Railway Paint Colours
This is an attempt to compare colours of paint. Click on a coloured square in the table below or in the list of paints to sort by that colour. The closest matches to that colour should be listed first. This program uses Javascript to calculate the colour differences, so this has to be enabled for anything to be displayed. Also there are a lot of calculations, so it might take a few seconds to sort a page.
These colour samples are taken from various web sites, or by analysing colour charts. However, they may not be accurate and your monitor may not display the colour accurately, and room lighting can make a big difference to the appearance. So any decision on colour needs to be carefully checked when buying paint.
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Paint Colour Sites:
Humbrol
Games Workshop
Tamiya
FS-595 FS-595 ColorServer
Revell Aqua
Cross reference tables:
www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/portland/971/reference/humbrol.htm
www.ipmsstockholm.org/colorcharts/stuff_eng_colorcharts_humbrol.htm
www.revell.com/support/paint-guide.html
www.paint4models.com/
Railway colours were scanned in CIE Lab using a Datacolor spectrocolorimeter from "Britain's Railway Liveries" by Ernest Carter, "Great Western Way", and "Railway Liveries" by Brian Haresnape. Munsell colours in "HMRS Livery Register No 3 LSWR and Southern" were converted to CIE Lab by software. Most BSI and RAL colours were scanned in CIE Lab from paint colour charts, those with * were converted from information on the Internet. The Model Master colours are scanned from the chart in their Terchnical Guide, however these samples are a little small which may affect the accuracy. Other paint colours are less accurate and taken from lower quality printed charts or converted from RGB values on web sites. The Games Workshop colours on their website are not very accurate, 3 colours use the same sample image, and some are scanned from actual paint samples.