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  • Member since
    June 2011
  • From: Bomber County, United Kingdom
Posted by Gromit's Dad on Wednesday, June 8, 2011 4:58 PM

Try this website in UK.  He has a very good reputation and has a custom paint mixing service.  I'm sure he will do everything he can to help.

www.hiroboy.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=48

 

  • Member since
    September 2010
Paint color matching
Posted by retdfeuerwehr on Wednesday, April 20, 2011 3:40 PM

This is a kind of technical question, and maybe I'm making too big of a deal out of it...I'm working on a scratchbuilt 1/35 scale WW2 German fire engine - a GLG, to be specific - and the official instructions for the paintwork specify Farbton 30, RAL 840 B 2 (dunkelgruen is Farbton 30, apparently, and RAL 840 is the particular mixture code) as the color for the exterior body. On a previous model I used a Humbrol color which was very close, however, that color (the name of which escapes me) is no longer produced. Looking up the color in the RAL website was unproductive...there is a RAL6029 (Minz/Polizeigruen), but no color chip was provided, nor any mention of Farbton 30. ModelMaster produces a match (1524) to RAL6029, but it's gloss and I had hoped to avoid gloss paints. Does anyone know offhand of a producer of an RAL6029 "lookalike" or who has used the MM 1524?

I'm (hopefully) including a color photo of a GLG painted in the polizeigruen. TIA

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