Gunfreak  | 30 May 2018 11:31 a.m. PST |
Some years back i bought the full 140 paint set of coat d arms. Some of those needs replacements.
Some time ago i bought the barbarian leather. It didn't match my original. And now i bough fester blue. I use this color as the last highlight for almost all my "dark blue" uniforms.
It was a rich medium blue. The new one is far more subdued.
I really liked how it looked and was my secret recipe for making dark blue look good.
But this new batch of fester blue does not have the same qualities. |
| Perris0707 | 30 May 2018 12:35 p.m. PST |
I hate it when that happens!!! You would think that it would be pretty easy to keep paint colors the same… |
| Garand | 30 May 2018 2:30 p.m. PST |
Unfortunately happens all the time. I bought a bottle of Tamiya dark Yellow to paint to paint the interior of an SdKfz.250 model kit in 1/35 scale. I set the kit aside for a while & returned to it to paint the exterior using a recent bottle of the same color. Surprise! The colors did not match. Of course, this is Tamiya not a small manufacturer, so it does happen… Damon. |
| Winston Smith | 30 May 2018 5:54 p.m. PST |
If paint manufacturers can't even keep their colors straight in 2018, how can you expect perfect color matches for textiles dyed in 1776? |
| wrgmr1 | 30 May 2018 6:36 p.m. PST |
Good point Winston. I found the same in craft paint, Delta Ceramcoat. |
| bsrlee | 30 May 2018 7:15 p.m. PST |
The lesson here? If a colour really works and becomes essential to your technique, buy several bottles from the same batch and store them securely in a dark, cool place. |
| VonBlucher | 30 May 2018 7:50 p.m. PST |
Exactly why your most used special paints you maintain a good stock of them, I still have unopened bottles of my favorite PollyS paints like Venetian Dull Red and a few others, But I didn't pick up enough Hessian Blue by Howard Hues as they discontinued it years ago, which was my go to for my 1806 Prussians. |
 Extra Crispy  | 30 May 2018 11:04 p.m. PST |
House paint varies between cans |
| IUsedToBeSomeone | 31 May 2018 1:36 a.m. PST |
Our manufacturer hmg paints try their hardest to keep the colours consistent and have a superb quality lab. Unfortunately, their suppliers do occasionally change materials or stop materials all together which makes to harder to make an exact match… As noted above, it is a problem faced by all paint manufacturers. Mike Coat d'arms. |
| Bowman | 31 May 2018 12:39 p.m. PST |
I don't expect manufacturers to make the same colour exactly the same over a period of years. At the very least the suppliers of pigments change their formulations or get cheaper/different sources themselves. Like Mark says, house paints are hard to match. I just learned not to worry about these differences. |
| Zephyr1 | 31 May 2018 2:34 p.m. PST |
Look around on ebay. Sometimes old paint collections show up… |
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