Author Topic: What Colour is this?  (Read 3491 times)

Offline The Big Gimper

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What Colour is this?
« on: January 14, 2016, 10:25:14 AM »
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What colour blue grey is this?



FS35414
FS35622





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Re: What Colour is this?
« Reply #1 on: January 14, 2016, 11:40:12 AM »
It's hard to match colors on the screen, but FS35622 looks like a closer match than FS35414 which looks a little dark.

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Re: What Colour is this?
« Reply #2 on: January 15, 2016, 05:45:47 AM »
I agree with call that Frank.
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Re: What Colour is this?
« Reply #3 on: January 15, 2016, 10:34:33 AM »
For a one color scheme it does look good.
Trying to match a color from a photo and appearing on a computer screen is super difficult. Here's another pic and I'd say it looks quite different.
I suggest researching the Indian Air Force and see if you can find something specific.


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Re: What Colour is this?
« Reply #4 on: January 15, 2016, 07:58:36 PM »
Here is a Mig-21:



And a Hawk:



I'm using the tail flash as the reference point. I think in the flying Jaguar picture the bright white cloud background fooled the camera and it used a larger f stop.

I also found this quote: The IAF has now adopted a standard overall light gray color scheme for all Jaguars, similar to that adopted by the RAF.

Unless I buy a book (not really interested) I think I will defer to the lighter grey FS35622 (Duck Egg Blue on MM paints).  The Hawk appears to have a purer grey.
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