"Sandtex colors - how to color match?" Topic
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| Kealios | 05 Jul 2015 8:30 p.m. PST |
This guy's blog is amazing, and he has some of the most realistic terrain colors I have ever seen: link He says he uses Sandtex Mid-brown and Mid-stone. We do not appear to have these colors in the US, so I tried a trip to the local Home Depot to do some visual color matching (off a phone? LOL). Yea…not so much luck. I'd love the RBY colors of these – but a Google search doesnt come up with much that I can see. Any ideas? I need something to take to the paint store to get matched. |
| Heisler | 05 Jul 2015 8:44 p.m. PST |
There are color swatches on the manufacturer's site: sandtex.co.uk |
| Kealios | 05 Jul 2015 10:42 p.m. PST |
Other than what I am seeing on link I dont see anything that would be an easy match. I tried going to the home depot with the color and finding something that matched, but really, the internet and a card in hand never really match :) Anyone else with ideas, or a paint you have found to have matched the Mid Stone color? |
| TheOtherOneFromTableScape | 06 Jul 2015 4:15 a.m. PST |
You could try saving the image of the colour swatch from here link Then open the png in an image editing tool that can sample the colour (usually an eye dropper tool) and that will give to an code for the colour. The question would be whether the swatch image colour is the same as the pigment's. You would then need to find somewhere that mixes house paint to match an existing sample. |
| Feet up now | 06 Jul 2015 7:11 a.m. PST |
I can not find my 'touching History' terrain books , I am pretty sure they have alternate masonry paints to the sandtex ones your after. Also any scale below 28mm try and get the fine texture masonry paint as it seems to look better and dry brushes perfectly for Smaller stuff. The blog find is awesome and the fine steel wool technique for the trees is genius. |
| Kealios | 06 Jul 2015 4:03 p.m. PST |
TableScape, I took your advice and got a friend to delve into it for me. Ive got the color code – we'll see how it turns out :) |
| Kealios | 07 Aug 2015 1:42 p.m. PST |
It was a no-go on the color. I went to both Home Depot and Kelly Moore and they couldnt do anything with the RGB colors. Ugh. Do they have Home Depots in the UK? Anyone willing to try to get me their color combination for this? I'll pay via paypal? |
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