[AMD] Re: Vietnam Airlines blue

Vincent & Martin,

The VN teal is quite an elusive shade to be sure. Going by photo references is pretty well fruitless due to colour shifting and generally poor actual reproduction of colour via film/CCD. So try it this way...

The June 1998 issue of Airways magazine has a shot of a new VN777. The descriptive states the colour was a custom mix done by Courtauld's Aerospace based on Pantone Dark Teal PMS 3025. A link to Pantone chips is here:

http://www.australiasigns.com.au/qsonline/PMS-color-chart-300.html

Again, a printout of this sheet may not render the actual colour given your particular printer's capabilities. But it's a start.

Now to paint. If you're using enamels, a good base might be Xtracolour America West Teal. Bear in mind that some mixing/matching will need to be done as the AW Teal is NOT correct for VN. When I did my VN A-321, I used Gunze acrylics. No less than 6 differnet paints were involved including 2 blues, an orange, a yellow, a violet, and white. Sorry, there's no formula. It was strictly hit/miss until I achieved a shade close enough to satisfy my craziness.

HTH,

Alan Aronoff (CYUL)

--- In airlinermodelling@yahoogroups.com, "vickers1162" <vindenj@...> wrote:
>
> Martin,
> I too am trying to match this colour for a 777. I had an old tin of Revell 51 which to my eyes was a close match. I then bought a new tin and it was a totally different shade of blue. Quite a bright blue not the greenish-blue of my original tin. I have been looking at Halfords auto spray paints and I am currently torn between Rover Teal Blue and Ford Fjiord Blue. I took a lot of photographs of a spanking new Vietnam ATR at the Paris Air Show hoping to get a firmer fix on the colour only to conclude that it is a very elusive shade, seeming to change significantly with the angle of the light. A quick flick through the Airliners site bears this out. You can also see that this colour is very susceptible to fading where some aircraft panels have been resprayed. I am now concluding that I can get away with something close because of the range of percieved tones that this colour produces under different conditions. That is until someone comes up with an exact colour reference!
>
> Vincent James
>
> ps does anyone at F-DCAL know the colour, a Pantone ref perhaps - they seem to have got pretty close on their instruction sheet.
>

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