Shades of French Buff - Please vote your preference

I believe C is the closest to the buff of late 19th, early 20th century.

I like B the most.

Colourcoats makes a color called Buff, which I used on my Imperial German Navy cruiser.

Bill

Missileman2000 - I agreed with your choice of C: I even did a first pass using that color

But after seeing it in place, I started to feel Bill's choice: B, might be better as it is whiter/lighter. I'm still on the fence between the two. I had originaly used D: and that was way too orange, wish I had taken pictures though.

Please weigh in folks! I need a tie breaker!

C looks about right!

The colour of C looks good but it should probably be toned down a bit with some white to lighten it a bit in scale. 

Hi!

   I do believe a color choice between Cand D would be perfect. The others are either too light or too bright!

Tcoat

The colour of C looks good but it should probably be toned down a bit with some white to lighten it a bit in scale. 

I agree.  I'd try "C", but tone it down with a bit of grey to reduce the intensity.

rcboater

 

 

Tcoat

The colour of C looks good but it should probably be toned down a bit with some white to lighten it a bit in scale. 

 

 

 

I agree.  I'd try "C", but tone it down with a bit of grey to reduce the intensity.

 

Good point.  Late 20th and 21 century paints seem to be more saturated than paints frm past.  To me a good buff is not real high saturation.  Do not be reluctent to mix paint- just go slow and try paint on scrap for every mix.

Id vote for C and then runner up B

but the idea of adding  a little bit of gray sounds like a good one just to "scale it down"

I'm on board with you and rcboater, try C with the gray to tone it down.

See what I did there, "on board"?

I finally found a shade that doesn't leave me feeling like I'm making a huge mistake.

Thank you all for your input on this.

JoeSMG

I finally found a shade that doesn't leave me feeling like I'm making a huge mistake.

Thank you all for your input on this.

 

That looks bang on. More to the brown than the orange.

Folks,

I am getting the impression that the responses here were all assuming that US Navy buff = German navy buff = RN  (colourcoats) buff = French 1895 buff.

Do we have any solid reason to be assuming that all the navies would use the same color palette, even if the same color name was used?

Rick

Surface_Line

Folks,

I am getting the impression that the responses here were all assuming that US Navy buff = German navy buff = RN  (colourcoats) buff = French 1895 buff.

Do we have any solid reason to be assuming that all the navies would use the same color palette, even if the same color name was used?

Rick

 

Surface_Line

Folks,

I am getting the impression that the responses here were all assuming that US Navy buff = German navy buff = RN  (colourcoats) buff = French 1895 buff.

Do we have any solid reason to be assuming that all the navies would use the same color palette, even if the same color name was used?

Rick

 

All in all I feel better about my latest choice than my earlier ones.