Monty Posted March 4 Share Posted March 4 I'm currently doing some initial research on colors for an upcoming model project and I'm leaning toward variants of gold (think how much different Model Master Inca Gold is from most regular gold paints). Anyway, I came across some pics of GM cars painted in Warbonnet Yellow, which I like, and I also saw similarly aged GM cars painted in Placer Gold. Admittedly, all I have is small internet pictures for reference, but to me they looked strikingly similar. Just curious if someone with knowledge of car paint could tell me the difference and maybe post pics that best define each shade. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 Check: autocolorlibrary.com by year, for both Chevrolet and the make you wish to use the color on. I used Duplicolor auto touch-up sprays in the Seventies, the ones for GM cars often used different names for the same color on different GM makes. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Can-Con Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 They are not exactly the same colors, Monty. War Bonnet Yellow is a unique Corvette color. You can check here. It gives you a lot of codes for the colors so you can cross reference and it also gives some pics. https://paintref.com/index.shtml Placer gold https://paintref.com/cgi-bin/colorcodedisplay.cgi?color=Placer Gold&tditzler=2339&rows=50 War bonnet yellow https://paintref.com/cgi-bin/colorcodedisplay.cgi?type=sample&ditzler=2351&syear=1971&smanuf=GM&smake=GM&smodel=&sname=War Bonnet Yellow&name=corvette19712351a&scomm=Corvette Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eldo60 Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 On 3/4/2024 at 4:08 PM, Monty said: I'm currently doing some initial research on colors for an upcoming model project and I'm leaning toward variants of gold (think how much different Model Master Inca Gold is from most regular gold paints). Anyway, I came across some pics of GM cars painted in Warbonnet Yellow, which I like, and I also saw similarly aged GM cars painted in Placer Gold. Admittedly, all I have is small internet pictures for reference, but to me they looked strikingly similar. Just curious if someone with knowledge of car paint could tell me the difference and maybe post pics that best define each shade. Paintscratch is another good site for automotive paint with decent prices Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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