what color dominates your builds?

[tubbs]

I was painting a few builds last night, glanced over and noticed that of the builds I have done, they are dominated by either blue or black builds. no red, no green, no bright wild colors.... just blues and blacks. the 2 I sprayed last night, 1 blue, one black, ongoing builds I have are also blue or black.

well, I re-evaluated my current projects and future builds and changed a lot of the colors. do you guys seem to have a "dominate" color on your builds or are you pretty diverse? kind of a silly question, just was wondering if anyone has fallen into the "blue/black hole" that I have?

[Ramcharger]

If you take out the white Ramchargers cars and the red Bill Elliott cars, I'm pretty diverse.

[disabled modeler]

Most of my builds are usually a bright or medium color....but what always seems to dominate my builds is waiting to find needed parts for them sadly. I am sitting on some great stuff from my dads old collection I cant build or restore/repair due to needing parts for them...being a mostly factory stock builder its not easy to find those things and my lack of a real building budget does not help any ether.

[slusher]

I seem to have more silver and then it would be orange 2nd...

[Jantrix]

No real pattern has accidently emerged but as silver is my favorite color for an automobile, I was thinking about doing a few kits in a row using different shades of silver/greys.

EDIT: pretty varied actually.

Edited March 12, 2014 by Jantrix

[rmvw guy]

Many years ago I thought it would be cool to have an all red collection. It grew an grew until red started looking plain to me like black and white or gray.

I went to black for a while more or less as a challenge to myself to become an expert with black finishes.

White became fresh soon after with red as an inerior color.

I've always liked bright hot rod colors like orange and yellow but, tend to reserve them for special builds.

Green seems refreshing to me now.

There are so many shades and tones of colors to play with I have become more diverse. Lately I have been playing with some acrylics mixing my own colors which I find very interesting. I have always tried to use mostly solid colors instead of metalics.

Believe it or not I have always considered blue my favorite color. I think the only blue models I have are builds of 1:1 cars I have owned.

[Brian_R]

My top four colors are:

Blue 92

Red 63

Green 39

White 24

Then it starts trailing off to the two tones and others.

I guess I really like shades of blue.

Brian

[Deathgoblin]

I try to vary mine as much as possible. So far I haven't used much green, but that'll probably change.

[mikemodeler]

Primer gray. I can't seem to get past the beginning of model building before moving on to starting another kit. My WIP pile grows and if it wasn't for snap fast models, I probably would only have about a dozen completed builds.

Most of my completed builds are darker colors- black, gray, blue- but I also went on a red and orange streak and have about 3 each of those colors.

[Agent G]

Most of my builds are police vehicles, so all black, all white, or some combo thereof.

G

[Mizozuman2]

Definitely Blue.

[cobraman]

I tend to use a lot of blue.

[Belugawrx]

I try to use a different colour each time,..but, I do have 4 black builds and 3 reds

Hahaha

[jbwelda]

lately it has been yellow, in various shades. hard to apply but with patience and prep (neither of which are my strengths) its about my favorite color.

jb

[Mike Kucaba]

No real pattern has accidently emerged but as silver is my favorite color for an automobile, I was thinking about doing a few kits in a row using different shades of silver/greys.

EDIT: pretty varied actually.

The REAL problem is your workspace is too neat

[Jantrix]

The REAL problem is your workspace is too neat

No. Not really.

[slammedi'am]

I try to change mine up as much as I can...But I find my self liking black and red combos for some reason...

[rmvw guy]

lately it has been yellow, in various shades. hard to apply but with patience and prep (neither of which are my strengths) its about my favorite color.

jb

I agree Yellow is hard to apply, has been my worse color to date. I think it has something to do with the primer.

Primer gray. I can't seem to get past the beginning of model building before moving on to starting another kit. My WIP pile grows and if it wasn't for snap fast models, I probably would only have about a dozen completed builds.

Most of my completed builds are darker colors- black, gray, blue- but I also went on a red and orange streak and have about 3 each of those colors.

[Jordan 191]

_{I have to force myself to not paint something blue, but I can't help it.}

[Ramfins59]

I try to paint my models in various colors and not get hung up on one color. I've been all over the color spectrum with my 50's cars, especially when doing 2 tones. When I google research pictures of cars I'll keep looking until I find a color that appeals to me on a particular car.

[JTalmage]

Blacks and Blues. I realized my number of black cars had been on the rise so thats about the time I started dabbling in 2 tones, rust, and multi color cars.

[charlie8575]

Blues and a lot of pastels and light colors seem to go on my builds, but I'm starting to expand to browns, greys, maroon/red, and green. I'm also going to do some turquoise and aqua cars, too. I like color, and sometimes it's very hard to pick, especially 1950s-70s models, because so many wonderful colors and combinations were available, unlike today's black, white, five shades of grey/silver, and maybe a gold/metallic beige and red or blue of some kind.

I always liked blue, though, and tend to gravitate towards it rather heavily.

Charlie Larkin

[JM485]

My favorite color is green so I have a few green models, but overall it is pretty well varies. The only colors I can think of that I don't have is pink, yellow or purple.

[DodgeAddict]

I can't decide on colors

The ones with paint either came that way or are builds that I bought

I know what colors some are going to be because they represent people in my past or present life in my diorama my daughter & I are building

[Ron Hamilton]

Black, then White, Red, Blue, Green.