m imagining creating a package to sell, a small cardboard box screenprinted with uscm logo and a very accurate bottle of BB acrylic. a folding insert with all possible mixing instructions/codes for recreating it. Something that looks military issued. maybe throw in a sticker or stencil. I can do the printing and design. The instruction sheet can be made to look like old printer paper with the holes down the side.
could do a run of 50 or so cost effectively. could start with a large color matched batch and order empty bottles online, fill them, slap a sticker on em.

Sounds very cool

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"Errr... Roger that's a 2-1-6..."

I'll see if I can get in touch with Alclad USA tomorrow, they are about 35 miles away from where I live. Must be somewhere they distribute the color to here. Hobbytown sells Alclad but not that color.

As simon t says the alclad British brown bess is a great colour that is pretty close to the original humbrol.
I own an original tin of humbrol 170 which i have used to paint smaller props such as my belt tool and for the larger stuff i use alclad British brown bess and am more than happy with the colour match. Its not perfect but its close enough for me that im no longer going to search for anything better!



Here is my belt tool painted in humbrol 170 and dropship helmet in alclad. Not the best two items to compare due to the size and shape difference but its a close match.

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This is the review on AllClad 062 Brown Bess I posted here back in January. I didn't get results quite as spot-on as ya'll are finding. Maybe I just had more extreme lighting in the pics? All that said, I have happily used it on props since then, including for touch ups on previous custom blends that look pretty good. Def great in a pinch.

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The Alclad II usa website sucks. I emailed the UK site though so we'll see. Apparently they are releasing soon in the UK the mil-spec range in a brushable format in a tin as well as the airbrush jars.

Had the same experience with the site, Jockey. If anyone in the states orders a lot I would throw in on the order.

Well, Alclad got back to me and said they do have plans to sell Mil-Spec in the US soon. How soon is 'soon', I don't know.

Sorry to quote my own post but it's relevant to this new one I suppose.

I just left my Ripley Data Disc (mentioned above) with a paint shop near where I live. The guy who does the colour matching is fairly confident that he can get it matched; he had a swatch of what looked like military colours and one of them looked very close to the disc, although it was a gloss finish so he's going to work his magic and see what he can do!

I'll keep you all posted when I hear back from them.

Harry

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Awesome!

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I've posted in the archives section here but will copy it into this one as well:

I finally managed to have some paint colour-matched to my original Ripley Data Disc. The paint in question is number 10.


I had to do a bit of Photoshop work to the image as I only have one disc so I just copied the disk a few times. The important thing is that the paints and the disc were photographed at the same time (meaning they're from the same photo).

As you can see number 10 is a very close match, but it does look slightly lighter. In reality it doesn't look as different as it does in the photo, which may have something to do with either how my camera sees it, or indeed how light reflects and refracts off the surface of the paint. My colour matched version is very slightly shinier than the surface of the disc so this could have something to do with why they're different.

This photo here is the new colour match paint and number 7; Alclad II ALCE062 British Brown Bess which still looks the closest as far as I'm concerned.


I think this shows just what a tricky paint this is to copy (remember numbers 4, 5 and 6 are colour matches as well). The company that I used took just under two weeks and they had a sample of the original paint to reference from!

Lastly in terms of providing RAL numbers and other reference codes I'm afraid that isn't possible as No 10 was matched by hand.

Harry

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I am guessing this still is in the "soon" category? I can't seem to find anyone that sells the Alclad in North America or even ships it from Europe...

Somewhere, deep in the Humbrol storage room, there will be a tiny bit of paper with the ratio on it...just waiting for us Aliens nerds to find....
....assuming Hornby didn’t chuck it out when they bought the place !

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Same

Still in the 'soon' category I guess. Hobbytown sells Alclad here in the States but my local store has had the same colors for years now. I think we are just better off waiting to see how the SMS blaster brown paint turns out to be honest.

Fully agree

Not boring at all. Really appreciate knowing info like this. Thank you.

It sucks but I think we have covid to blame for this still not being available. I just wish I could pay domestic retail for this paint and not have to sign off on my kidney to get some shipped.