Paint Sample Chart

[NOBLNG]

I started this one years ago just on a piece of paper to compare some colors. I had some colored plastic sheet that I had no use for, so I primed it and started a new one. Each square is 3/4”x 1”. Now I just have to remember to paint a parch every time I open new paint or different colour…or I could sit down one day and do all of my stock. I have two more of these in case I run out of space.?

Edited January 18, 2022 by NOBLNG

[maxwell48098]

Took a tour of the Pierce Fire Apparatus plant in Appleton, WI awhile ago, and here's the paint sample chart that they have in the paint shop. 

 

A.J.

[peteski]

I suspect that using paper does not give very accurate results as it absorbs some of the paints binder. Styrene would be a better surface to use.  That is what I use.

Of course painting the lid of the bottle, or the cap on the spray can also works well. That is how paint cans were sold back in the day - caps were actually painted with the paint in the can. But most companies have taken the cheaper way out to  just mold the cap from approximately colored plastic.  Not quite the same (especially for metallic colors).