Where to buy paint?

[Tony Smith]

Another reason to get the chips rather than order by color is that the chips are representative of Gillespie's actual product. Their chips show a difference in colors to the official FS595b color chips. That might be bad news for someone looking for an exact 34052 paint, as Gillespie's color looks a more "Iron Grey" than the "Blackish Green" of FS595b, but it's good for you because you're NOT looking for 34052. If you went to Brand X and asked for 34052, you might get something much greener than you want.

[rob love]

Both those paint codes are available form RAPCO, out of Texas. They are where I order my paints from, and I am often bringing it up by the pallet.



At the MVPA conventions, Rapco will actually have a bunch of plates of metal that he has painted to give representation of the colours. However, there are so many variables like the reducer used, the amount of reducer, if the paint has been frozen, hardeners etc, that you are unlikely to replicate his exact shades. Even the daylight or lighting that the vehicle or gun is being displayed in will make a difference to the presentation of the colour. In real life, paint fades as well.


One only has to look at older Cdn camoflauge vehicles to see the change in colours over just a few years. Totally different shades of green become the same, and black turns to very light grey.

[Tony Smith]

Yeah, the 1%ers have a field day!

Thus my advice to just pick a color he is happy with and go for it.

[James P]

As others have said find a colour that looks right and not out to lunch and you are good. I subscribe to the "if it looks right then it is right" theory of paint, that and I get it from the US and it is a dead ringer to paint of the day. What colour are you painting that gun to ? As for "correct" red primer the stuff Princess sells is as correct as you need, like scary correct.