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FS colors and Dayglo orange?

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Dear All,

I'm hoping I've got the correct place to post this thread? My question is about colors...

I'm trying to find either the RGB or CMYK figures for "Dayglo Orange", as used by Royal Navy (Fleet Air Arm) aircraft. I've searched online with not much success. There are some great resourses out there for WWII and Cold War era colors for various air arms, but not this particular Dayglo Orange.

In the process of searching I found the closest Humbrol colour, which is close to Federal Standard (FS) 28915 or 38915:

http://www.colorserver.net/showcolor.asp?fs=28915

http://www.colorserver.net/showcolor.asp?fs=38915

All I need to do now is to convert these to either RGB or CMYK... anyone have any ideas??

Thanks in advance

Andy
 
Wow, many thanks!

Is that for the "proper" Royal navy dayglo orange, or is it for one of the FS colors I listed?

Either way, how did you know? Did you work it out? If so, how? Did you have another source of colors?

Thanks again

Andy
 
Airtrooper said:
All I need to do now is to convert these to either RGB or CMYK... anyone have any ideas??

Thanks in advance

Andy
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Andy - while not debating whether those are the "correct" shades, I took a screenshot of the web page listed, pasted into <insert your paint program here; I used Paint Shop Pro 7> and use the color picker.

In *my* setup, I get RGB: 254,77,0 (which is close to the other values given)
 
Isn't the point with Dayglo paints that they are somewhat fluorescent, thus surfaces painted with them also *emit* light instead of simply reflecting it back filtered according to the surface's colour? Just modelling them as normal non-emissive surfaces won't look entirely correct.
 
Hi Folks

The Federal Standard colorserver site tiles
are not of homogenous colour.

Viewed on a 32bit there's quite a variation,
Viewed on a 16bit they appear reasonably homogenous.

In case you're not already aware,
there's a useful utility for grabbing the colour of a pixel -
Color Schemer's - ColorPix
will pull out the values for RGB, Hex, HSB, & CMYK.

Both pages for 28915 & 38915
call the same 38915.jpg
hence result in 255,77,0 being a reasonable average.

Attached 38915.jpg, have a look at the variations.

HTH
ATB
Paul
 
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Paul - and even worse that the web pages, these old eyes can't tell the fine difference between 255,77,0 and 254,78,1 ... hence, I agree with you that "reasonable average" is "good enough" for FS modelling purposes.

(I dare not get into the "discussions" I see on plastic modelling sites/magazines on the "exactness" of such and such color such as "Olive Drab"....)
 
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