Methuen replacement

[Barker]

Originally Posted by jumpinjan

I'll have to get a Pantone book and try this cross-reference experiment myself.

Coated or Uncoated or Matte?

[berman]

If someone did produce a specific WWI aircraft one thousand color chip color chart using the professional acrylic Epson printer, I believe they could sell at least four thousand copies over a short period of time. As a comparison, I think individual datafile titles are printed in batches of three thousand. If the charts sold for $25 and cost $10 to print, this would give someone $60,000. Maybe that is still not enough incentive for someone to produce a color chart. Reproductive art printers have spectrometers that cost up to $4,000. This means that they can match a sample color almost perfectly. They can produce something like two hundred fifty six million different colors. Best of all, since the printing is done by digital files, when it became necessary to print more, they would match the first group. The Methuen/Pantone cross reference guide is still an alternative but it is second best to a new handy color chart. The acrylic polymers used in the Epson printer are formulated to be highly fade and moisture resistant because they are meant to reproduce paintings that are constantly exposed to light. This polymer looks like paint not ink.

[Sreiko]

Chip I have provide is Methuen sample. No conversion. So as well this is WW1 aviation forum- which color this chip should represent?

[berman]

I just randomly chose 15D4 mauve as an example. Dan San Abbott once said this color matched a polygon in five color lozenge but I think he has since revised his choice. The problem with a cross reference chart to other guides such as the Federal Standard or Pantone system is that there are so many colors without crossover matches. That is why I think the best solution would be a new WWI specific color chart.

[Sreiko]

I am not fan of the making cross reference chart or map. Reasons are many. Main reason that time has been rapidly changed since first color chart with aircraft color was released for the public and market. In this moment we living in the communication and technological progressive world and all of this benefit could used here.

About the same chip- everybody who have chip for sure have PC or Mac and scanner. Why he or she should waste time with hunting for the reference map as well he can simply scan the color relic he had and get almost perfect match of this color which could be present to the public. Via internet or so...

Other solution is if he want to make printed sample. And the answer is in the modern automotive paint studios. They have computer machine who can scan color and mix identical paint. That was made not for the airplanes fan but to solve one critical problem with cars- scratch repair. problem is that when small scratch is occurred you should paint all the area. That was because color of your car is not the same as the factory. It is fade and changed. And that was expensive. With computer mixing you get small amount of paint identical to the paint of car. Millions of color can be mixed. So every relic owner could go to the workshop like this, give it material for scan and minute later get small can of color he want.

All above mention solution give fast, cheap and very precise match of the relic color- either digital or paint version