Models , and House - Paint .

Wow! pick up the new yard set, some plumbing supplies, a board or two and -Oh by-the-way, a pint of my favorite  yellow wing color ( though haze gray might be a look   ....or not) .

Life just keeps  gettin'' better all the time 

no, these are physical paint chips,,,,,,,placed up against physical paint chip sheets/books

all you need to "print" a color reference at Lowe's/Home Depot is the CIE data that is in volume II of the FS 595 standards (or anyone's CIE data),,,,,,,,,,that is the data that was used all along, back to 1959 or so, in Volume II. Volume II never had any chips in it, only the Volume I booklets, individual chips, and the ink-printed fan decks had actual color chips/printings

At Lowe's,,,,,you take in anything,,,,,,a paint chip card, your chip pages (yikes! watch out for drips),,,,,or your niece's purple stuffed toy,,,,,,and the machine takes a reading,,,,,,,dispensing pigments to match (and generating color data),,,,,,you can ask them for the data and we can exchange that (just like FS does) and get the exact same color even thousands of miles apart, or from years ago in the past

the CIE works just like the Munsell system (Munsell is easier to "read", though)

Rex

In order to print out a color  reference, don't you need a color calibrated printer?  I have never been able to make the color calibration stuff work on my computer.

Hey ,Rex :

  Now that's a great idea .Why didn't I think of that ? Oh , well , you learn from others , no matter what your age ,  right ? Thanks for the idea and I will be sure to get those books tomorrow .

   I have about six hundred fifty swatches carefully taped to the inside of file folders in a cabinet . But , Somehow after building all those civilian ships , my Naval collection was wanting . Not now though ! Thanks again .    Model On ! Tanker - Builder  

   Doc

your friend probably went here http://www.shipcamouflage.com/

and got some of these

or used 595A or B like this

to make a bunch of these from cardstock and a paper cutter (in case you don't have enough business cards)

store in a baseball/Nascar card binder like this

Then pop out any batch of cards you want when you go to Lowe's (I use Lowe's, you use Home Depot, same deal)

If enough of us do this, then when the GSA stops selling physical FS books soon,,,,,,we will still have a way to communicate colors to each other to help each other out.

I started this 3 years ago, using Acrylics, because then we can tell someone what Acrylic paint to buy, and he can order it and get it shipped to him,,,,,something that some people can't do today with Enamels.

I only have about 400 chips so far, with 500 to be done by the Murfreesboro model show,,,,,,leaving about 2,000 still to go

Rex