If any or many of you are like me, you have more than one bottle of a particular paint color. I have found that it is impossible to not have multiples on colors that I use frequently.
I've just spent the last couple of hours going through and taking an inventory of all my paints. I've done about half...just the Testor Model Master enamels. One or two jars had all the pigment coagulate to the point of being a rubbery goo. Other than that, most of the paints are still in relatively good shape. A few of these bottles date back to the Reagan Administration (first term).
But, I have noticed here and there that some samples of colors seem to different from each other. So I decided to put small samples on 3 X 5 index cards. Where I have multiples of a color, the "splotches" are side-by-side. I'm posting just the cards I made for my greys and greens. The numbers in parentheses are the FS numbers.
GREYS:
I can really detect a difference between the two samples of "neutral grey" (36270), "medium grey" (35237), and the three samples of "intermediate blue" (35164). There's a HUGE difference between the two samples of "dark gull grey" (36231); I even mixed them for a "hybrid". I do notice a slight difference between the two samples of "flat gull grey" (36440) and the two of "dark ghost grey" (36320).
GREENS:
Not much here; the differences between the samples of "medium green" (34102) and "dark green" (34079) jump out at me like black and white. Sorry the number got cut off on "dark green".
Does anyone else see this? Or am I just being too overly anal about this?
Of course I know these "chip samples" are hardly scientific, but hey, there's only so much I can do with two toddlers jumping and running through the house, right above my desk.
On Bench: AM P-51B, Tamiya 1/48 F4U-1A
On Deck: Hasegawa F-14's (too many); Tamiya P-47D; Academy P-47N;