Lacathedrale Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 (edited) I've laid a few coats of railmatch warning yellow onto a white undercoat on my latest project, and it's come out quite cold and lemony. I wonder how much is due to the fact the body (that will ultimately end up rail blue) is undercoated grey, so the contrast (and the overspray into areas that will end up rail blue and thus not undercoated white) is contributing, or whether this is a known thing. I gave it about 3 light coats over white. I'm going to let it set and give it another coat in an hour or so I think, but would be interested to get some thoughts. Edited October 30, 2018 by Lacathedrale Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Saunders Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 Go back tomorrow and it might look better! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
YesTor Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 It may or may not have something to do with it but are you using: early warning panel yellow... https://howesmodels.co.uk/product/warning-panel-yellow-15ml-enamel/ intermediate... https://howesmodels.co.uk/product/warningengineers-yellow-15ml-enamel/ current... https://howesmodels.co.uk/product/warning-yellow-15ml-enamel/ There are some distinctly differing shades between the three... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lacathedrale Posted October 30, 2018 Author Share Posted October 30, 2018 (edited) I'm using acrylic rather than enamel, it doesn't specify an era. That said, I added a little golden yellow which has a much better pigmentation and it was more warm, then went back over with a very light cream to fade it back. I think it looks swish now! Thank you, I didn't realise there were multiple shades! Edit: here's a pic but I staged the wrong yellow, I used coat d'arms "golden yellow"! Edited October 30, 2018 by Lacathedrale 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Robert Shrives Posted November 4, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 4, 2018 Hi FWIW looking at livery diagrams at work a while back I found that there are 5 acceptable RAL / pantones for rail yellow warning panels- varying from a lemony yellow to a warm yellow. Add to this fading on an old livery, grime, chemicals used to clean then it really is down to personal choice. Photos while helping are false friends as shown on many threads with other colours, age of pic how it was developed, let alone PC screen variations to say nothing of the MK1 eyeball and interpretation... Go with what feels right to you Robert Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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