"Is Vallejo changing their color names?" Topic

I went in to buy Brown Violet 887. I found the 887 slot in the paint rack, which was labeled Brown Violet, but the bottle was labeled US Olive Drab. Are they changing their color names (shades of Games Workshop!) or is something else going on?

Grelber

In my experience they often change the names from batch to batch. I go by the number and ignore the name.

Wrong bottle in the slot. Vallejo US Olive Drab is a separate stand alone colour.

It happened the same to me last week. I bought it and used it as Violet Brown thinking it was the same colour.

I have not seen any evidence of this. However, I can attest that Vallejo has taught me many color names in Spanish.

70.887 is now called US Olive Drab FS34088 – ANA613.

Still the same colour as Brown violet.

Brown violet is an accurate description of the color.

GW did it so they could register the trademark. US Olive Drab does not sound a likely case for a registered TM. It sounds generic to me.

And all the above, of course.

They've changed a few of the names over the past few years, this one included. VAL894 has been Camo Olive Green and Russian Green, and I think they've just changed the name on either the Foundation White or Off White (I can't remember one).

I'm wrong. Just found an article online. Brown violet has been renamed US Olive Drab.

Thank you for all this information. I wanted 887 for US helmets, but I must admit to being attracted by the exotic name, brown violet, as well.

Grelber

A number of years ago, when Battlefront first started marketing paints for their figures, they used Vallejo paints that had names that matched the uniform colors of the various nationalities. Shortly after that, I started picking up Vallejo paints to paint all my figures and I noticed that the colors sometimes had different names that were not so FOW specific. They were still the same colors, however. This might be an example.