Tamiya PS paint for Camel Trophy livery

[blueST]

This should be a simple one. I'm building an RC crawler and I want paint it up like the old Camel Trophy Land Rovers. Being colourblind this is not as straightforward as it might be. On first look, great, there's a PS spray actually called Camel Yellow, but Google Images make it look too bright a yellow to me. An alternative is Mustard Yellow which looks closer to my eyes. What's going to be the closest in real life?

[bobtail4x4]

its the same colour yellow as mid 70s austin maxi`s came in
you will be able to get a spraycan,

[blueST]

Its a clear polycarbonate body, so I need to use a specific paint for that which means I'm limited to what Tamiya or Core RC offer. Regular car spray won't stay stuck.

[dr_gn]

You can’t trust a screen to judge colour. If it’s Tamiya, it’s called Camel Yellow, and it’s specified for that livery, you can bet it’s probably correct. Matching colours from memory is notoriously difficult. The only way to be sure would be to find out the RAL numbers of the colours and see if they match. Zero paints do a camel yellow, and probably specify the RAL number on their website.

ETA, presumably the Camel Yellow spray wasn't specified for a Camel Trophy body? Looking here on the Zero paints website, it is indeed a different yellow (as can be seen as a direct comparison from the difference in shade from the door sticker to the door):

https://www.zero-paints.com/search?q=camel+yellow

Edited by dr_gn on Monday 23 September 16:04

[ecsrobin]

dr_gn said:

You can’t trust a screen to judge colour. If it’s Tamiya, it’s called Camel Yellow, and it’s specified for that livery, you can bet it’s probably correct. Matching colours from memory is notoriously difficult. The only way to be sure would be to find out the RAL numbers of the colours and see if they match. Zero paints do a camel yellow, and probably specify the RAL number on their website.

https://www.modelsport.co.uk/product/tamiya-ps-19-camel-yellow-polycarbonate-spray-paint-1929

[Hard-Drive]

The actual colour you need is called "Sandglow", and a quick google gives you a load of options.

Good luck!

[blueST]

Cool thanks for the help, the key is I need it in a polycarbonate paint for clear bodies. I suspect Tamiya Mustard Yellow is as close as I'll get. The Tamiya Camel Yellow is the Camel F1 Lotus colour.

[Hard-Drive]

Ah sorry, I’d not read your thread properly. Makes sense. Good luck!

[wildoliver]

Can't comment on the mustard yellow. But I've used camel yellow as it's the right colour for rc10s.

It certainly isn't sandglow. It's a nice colour, and I think you would be happy with it, I find when you go down smaller you need to brighten colours a bit otherwise they look drab. I think it would look ok for a camel trophy truck. Not saying mustard wouldn't look better but I haven't used it so can't comment, but camel yellow won't ruin it in my opinion.