Historic Orange

[murraydeschot]

I'm sure this has probably been discussed and debated here before, but does anyone have a paint code for Historic Orange?

MdS

[tortoise]

Originally Posted by murraydeschot

I'm sure this has probably been discussed and debated here before, but does anyone have a paint code for Historic Orange?

MdS

Fwiw, there is no single colour that is "THE" colour.
The first version was chosen simply because it happened to be the orange in stock at a paint company located convenient to the team's Colnbrook works. It was a paint intended for general industrial applications, not for automobile finishes.
The orange used on the Yardley cars was a bit different to that.
In 1996, the original orange was deemed to be not quite clean enough for the LMs, so a third version was chosen for them.
The orange recently chosen for some SLRs was slightly different again.
Another variable is the paint medium: acrylic enamel, two-pack, or water-based. You cannot achieve exactly the same hue with all three.

[mini magic]

Originally Posted by tortoise

Fwiw, there is no single colour that is "THE" colour.
The first version was chosen simply because it happened to be the orange in stock at a paint company located convenient to the team's Colnbrook works. It was a paint intended for general industrial applications, not for automobile finishes.
The orange used on the Yardley cars was a bit different to that.
In 1996, the original orange was deemed to be not quite clean enough for the LMs, so a third version was chosen for them.
The orange recently chosen for some SLRs was slightly different again.
Another variable is the paint medium: acrylic enamel, two-pack, or water-based. You cannot achieve exactly the same hue with all three.

[Peloton25]

We've discussed the topic a few times with the answer tortoise has provided (perhaps for the second time - seems familiar anyway) being the best one, and no one else having any luck producing a suitable paint code so far for anything but a plastic model.

You might try contacting this guy through Flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/9548344...7601385987438/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/9548344...7601385987438/

Pretty sure he was the same guy who used to post here under the screenname RubenRocket or similar, so you could look that up too.

>8^)
ER

[murraydeschot]

Thanks for your answers one and all!

MdS

[hurstg01]

What are you up to Murray?