Colour Charts

[Jonay]

Hi there,

Looking for a colour reference site that has a chart of colours used by modern militaries.

I'm not looking for which paint colours primarily - as it's for flight sim repaints that I'm using it for - so ideally it'd need RGB values at least but preferrably a visual "swatch" so that I can simply use photoshop's dropper tool to pick the colour.

I used to have a excellent website, where users submitted electronic art of aircraft, and they has a huge resource where they had all the colours for RAF, USA, Germany, France etc etc. but I lost the bookmark

TIA

[Jonay]

I think I might've actually found it - but it's blocked on my work's internet.

Could someone be so kind as to post a screenshot of the site's front page?

www.simmerspaintshop.com

I've been trying for hours last week to find this but it's only just appeared now!

Thank you!

[SaintsPhil]

This any good?

http://www.ipmsstockholm.org/colorcharts/s...orcharts_fs.htm

[Jonay]

I tried using that the other day - but they've been very sneaky in the way that they do it - i can't save the swatch for future reference, and when i try take a screenshot it comes up with the square "blank"... try it for yourself...

[Nick Millman]

The RAF RGB colours on that site are off.

One example PRU Blue, given as 111 138 145 (Munsell 4.4 B 5.4/2.4) , but actually (from the measured MAP paint swatch) it is 67 101 111 (Munsell 5.1 B 3.9/2.9). Delta E between the two is 15.0 where <2.0 = a close match!

Whoever rendered them seems to have tried to incorporate "scale effect" and desaturated the colours.

Still, if you have a Mac you can copy the swatches using the 'Grab' facility, then check the integrity with Mac's Digital Color Meter.

[Jonay]

The RAF RGB colours on that site are off.

One example PRU Blue, given as 111 138 145 (Munsell 4.4 B 5.4/2.4) , but actually (from the measured MAP paint swatch) it is 67 101 111 (Munsell 5.1 B 3.9/2.9). Delta E between the two is 15.0 where <2.0 = a close match!

Whoever rendered them seems to have tried to incorporate "scale effect" and desaturated the colours.

Still, if you have a Mac you can copy the swatches using the 'Grab' facility, then check the integrity with Mac's Digital Color Meter.

Which website are you referencing? http://www.ipmsstockholm.org/colorcharts/s...orcharts_fs.htm or http://www.simmerspaintshop.com/

I don't have a Mac either

[Nick Millman]

Which website are you referencing? http://www.ipmsstockholm.org/colorcharts/s...orcharts_fs.htm or http://www.simmerspaintshop.com/

I don't have a Mac either

The simmers one but the other one is full of colour errors too, mainly the so-called "matches".

Sorry about the Mac - wasn't sure.

[stevehnz]

My PC runs Vista & has a Snipping tool which came with it, makes screen grabs easy. It may be possible to download it if yours doesn't have it. Failing that Alt-Prt Scrn & open in paint or similar works as well, least it has on my last two PCs. I take Nicks point about the colours being desaturated but other than that to my inexpert eye they not too bad. A lot will depend on which "experts" colour charts/swatches were refered to & in most of these ranges this is a topic that is somewhat less than carved in stone.

Steve.

[Jonay]

My PC runs Vista & has a Snipping tool which came with it, makes screen grabs easy. It may be possible to download it if yours doesn't have it. Failing that Alt-Prt Scrn & open in paint or similar works as well, least it has on my last two PCs. I take Nicks point about the colours being desaturated but other than that to my inexpert eye they not too bad. A lot will depend on which "experts" colour charts/swatches were refered to & in most of these ranges this is a topic that is somewhat less than carved in stone.

Steve.

Thanks I tried the snipping tool on my W7 and it worked.