JNR colours

[Martijn Meerts]

Not sure this has been posted before, but I just came across this little nugget when trying to look for which colours were used on older JNR locomotives: http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/国鉄色

 

Now I just need to find a way to convert RGB, hex or Munsell colour codes to which Gunze Sangyo paints to mix to get the colour =)

 

[CaptOblivious]

I had done an english translation of that page for our wiki, back when it existed. It is quite nice! Greenmax makes a range of colors that match them, but you can't export them boo. I hear that Vallejo will do custom color mixes in large batches—I wonder if there are enough of us here outside of Japan who would want them to make that a viable option? I doubt it…

[Martijn Meerts]

I wonder which paint World Kougei uses.. They have pre-build/pre-painted versions of their kits for sale, so they should also have the correct colours. Might be they use those GreenMax ones, but I do seem to remember them mentioning Gunze paints on their old site (they refreshed their site somewhat recently)

[miyakoji]

I had done an english translation of that page for our wiki, back when it existed. It is quite nice! Greenmax makes a range of colors that match them, but you can't export them boo. I hear that Vallejo will do custom color mixes in large batches—I wonder if there are enough of us here outside of Japan who would want them to make that a viable option? I doubt it…

You don't have any backups of that do you?  We had made some progress on a Japanese-English railway terminology page.

[Gora]

Hi Martijn,

 

Thank you for posting, was just wondering about this with regard the early "Grape" which I see had both early and late grapes.

 

Not sure whether this might help? - An online tool for matching paint colours to some commercial brands (though not Gunze) and between those brands. It also can apparently pick a colour off a picture and match it though I hanve'nt managed to get that bit to work successfully.

 

Link:

http://scalemodeldb.com/paint

 

I can't comment on accuracy but it at least gives an idea of some potential colour matches.

 

Cheers, Andrew

Edited July 24, 2013 by Gora

[Martijn Meerts]

It seems early grape (grape 1) is pre-WW II, while late grape (grape 2) is post-WW II.

 

That site should help, there are plenty conversion charts from tamiya/revell/humbrol etc to Gunze, and I don't HAVE to use Gunze, but they're great paints for airbrushing and it sticks well :)