what color dominates your builds?

[bbowser]

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.

Since lately I've done mostly factory stock builds I try to vary them staying within believable palettes. Other than NASCARs which are all over. I would do more in black but it's really hard to pull off a nice paint job in black. I will say that black is the color I use the most however, for interiors and undercarriages.

[rmvw guy]

I count 39 various shades of red. Here's a link to all of my models, I forgot I had this.

http://www.pinterest.com/rmvw/my-model-cars/

[Greg Cullinan]

Definitely green for me,then blue.

[Chris White]

I am a sucker for red, but I have every colour represented, not too much of a fan of pink, sorry ladies

Edited March 12, 2014 by Chris White

[martinfan5]

Blue

[Tom Geiger]

I try to vary my model colors. If I didn't watch it, I'd be building them all the same color blue or red! I literally refuse to use the same spray can on two models. A lot of my model colors are based on the actual color of the 1:1 that I'm replicating.

I don't like black or white on a car, model or 1:1.

And I try not to do black interiors since they just dark out in a model car. I try to do lighter browns, gray, red, blue etc so you can see the details of the interior.

[Lunajammer]

Many years ago I found an awesome can of red automotive lacquer, might have been Duplicolor. It looked luscious and I used it on a bunch of models. So I'm trying to not use red for a while.

[Tom Geiger]

Many years ago there was a guy at a model show who brought two models. One was red with a green interior. The other was green with a red interior. He displayed them side by side. Pretty darn obvious that he owned two cans of spray paint. Don't be that guy!

[disabled modeler]

Many years ago I found an awesome can of red automotive lacquer, might have been Duplicolor. It looked luscious and I used it on a bunch of models. So I'm trying to not use red for a while.

Very nice!!!!

[alangarber]

I try to use different colors. I have more blue but I'll google images to find something that stands out then use that color, or try to come close to what the truck came in when manufactured.

[Tom Kren]

I like green!

[Aaronw]

I have a green bias, but that is largely to do with my favored subjects, forest service and park service vehicles. Hey at least I don't stick with one shade of green, I've got about 10 variations to keep things fresh.

[GLMFAA1]

Duh! fire engine red

[Psychographic]

Primer grey, I can't finish anything!

[Kit Basher]

I try not to use the same color twice, pretty easy since I have only completed five models so far.

[tubbs]

Definitely green for me,then blue.

hey Greg, do you use automotive paints? where do you get your green paints from. everytime I look for a nice green color and I hit the local autozone for some duplicolor, they have very few greens and the ones they have are all dark. nothing like this...

I may have to start shopping at Model Car World....

[tubbs]

I try to vary my model colors. If I didn't watch it, I'd be building them all the same color blue or red! I literally refuse to use the same spray can on two models. A lot of my model colors are based on the actual color of the 1:1 that I'm replicating.

I don't like black or white on a car, model or 1:1.

And I try not to do black interiors since they just dark out in a model car. I try to do lighter browns, gray, red, blue etc so you can see the details of the interior.

really makes sense Tom. I do the same with the spray cans, but it seems I keep buying blues. I tend to lean towards black interiors. don't know if it's a color blind thing or just afraid on how it's going to look. have seen a few models with the blue interior/blue exterior thing and they look great. especially when executed well by the use of dullcoats, mat and textured finishes in the interior. one of these days......

[jaydar]

I paint factory colors so it tends to keep the colors spread out well.

Joe.

Edited March 13, 2014 by jaydar

[cartpix]

Purple dominates my display cabinet. A Yahoo group, I belong to does a memorial build, & the color is purple, because that was the person's favorite color. Other than that, I've got a good mix of colors.

[gtx6970]

Because I build a lot of sixties drag cars , a lot of my stuff is white , some are all white with lettering, some are mostly white with off color accents

several black cars folowwed by a few reds, yellows and blues and even a few green and even some gold cars. The least common in my case is probably orange( think I only have one )

[Scuderia]

I'm various shades of reds, and Sun Yellow.

[robertw]

Shades of RED. I'm so prone to selecting red that I conscientiously try to do projects that would look better in any color but red. This even spills over into real life, I've driven nothing but red cars since 1988.

[Mike Kucaba]

Let's see... Primer gray...Primer white.... Primer tan.. That's it! Primer!!

[jaymcminn]

Since I tend to build mainly exotics, the challenge is to stay away from the "expected" colors... Rosso Corsa for Ferraris, silver for Porsches, etc. This makes me do more research to come up with cool and unusual colors for my models. As far as favorite colors goes, I'm partial to dark blue and bright green, such as the Tamiya green pearl on the Porsche 911 in my avatar pic.

[Teddy J. Tannehill]

Looks like a lot of my cars are blue. I like hot colors orange, reds, yellow....Sometimes the color just comes to you while your building the car. My older brother had opinions about the color of cars...He said that there are exceptions to every rule...He felt that Green was not a good color for a "Race Car"....I pressed him on this, and found that it was opinion passed down from Dad....My brother and I agreed that there are a lot of really cool green cars....and maybe it was just a Marv Tannehill thing. Over the years many of my Pals said that their Dads told them that "Green Race Cars are Bad Luck"....Has Anybody else heard this?