Answers.Body: <p>You can get paint colour-matched, either automotive (good for metal and some plastics) or domestic (for walls, wood, possibly also metal).  It's not cheap though.</p>
  <p>Look for &quot;paint match service&quot;, and find one where you actually take in a sample.  The sheen won't be a perfect match, though there may be a choice, and lighting  can bring out differences (e.g. if you're painting a large background to match a display.</p>
  <p>Alternatively, and quite possibly close enough, there are places with a very wide range of stock colours of car paint.  You may have to buy the two or three closest and test on your chosen substrate or something similar; this could still be cheaper, and may be more appropriate given that your mention of Tamiya paints implies small quantities</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>There are a few specialist paint suppliers that claim to offer the full range of Pantone® colours, for example in the UK you get a 30ml sample pot of 431-C for about £5 from <a href="https://www.riolettcustomaerosols.co.uk/products/pantone-431-aerosol-spray-paint/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Riolet Custom Aerosols</a>.</p>
  <p>Note that there appears to be <a href="https://www.bartneck.de/2016/09/09/the-curious-case-of-lego-colors/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">some disagreement</a> over which Pantone colour matches which LEGO colour, and indeed some disagreement over which hex colour matches which LEGO or Pantone colour...</p>
  <p>So somewhere between Pantone 431 and Pantone Cool Grey 10 is probably LEGO Dark Blueish Grey.</p>
  
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Body: <p>In the past, people worked out how to match <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/lego/comments/3scydw/tamiya_paints_to_match_lego_colors/?utm_source=BD&amp;utm_medium=Search&amp;utm_name=Bing&amp;utm_content=PSR1" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Tamiya paints to LEGO colours</a>, but it requires a tool that no longer exists on the internet. I am currently trying to find either a way of matching paint to LEGO in general or a paint that matches Dark Bluish Grey</p>
  
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Comments.Text: <http://ryanhowerter.net/colors.php> claims it's Pantone "Cool Gray 10 C"
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Comments.Text: Based on current "50 shades of <insert your favorite color here>" color consistency within sets nowadays it should be a little easier to find similar shade, than exactly matching one.
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Comments.Text: @Rsculz how do you find a lego appropriate paint in cool grey 10 c?
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Comments.Text: While https://www.bartneck.de/2016/09/09/the-curious-case-of-lego-colors/ claims it's `431 C` :(
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Comments.Text: There are a few specialist suppliers of Pantone shades, in various sizes - for example: https://www.riolettcustomaerosols.co.uk/products/pantone-431-aerosol-spray-paint/ with small tester pots starting at GBP4.99.
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Comments.Text: @Zhaph-BenDuguid , i'll try it!
  if you submit it as an answer I'll accept it
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Comments.Text: A further thought: what do you want to apply the paint to? Lego? some form of oversize baseplate/background (I've thought about making a wooden tray to neatly hold 3x2 32-stud baseplates, for example)
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Title: Colour matching LEGO colours with paint
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ThreadText: # Colour matching LEGO colours with paint
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2021-09-17)
  
  In the past, people worked out how to match [Tamiya paints to LEGO colours](https://www.reddit.com/r/lego/comments/3scydw/tamiya_paints_to_match_lego_colors/?utm_source=BD&utm_medium=Search&utm_name=Bing&utm_content=PSR1), but it requires a tool that no longer exists on the internet. I am currently trying to find either a way of matching paint to LEGO in general or a paint that matches Dark Bluish Grey
  
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  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: <http://ryanhowerter.net/colors.php> claims it's Pantone "Cool Gray 10 C"  
  > **username_2**: Based on current "50 shades of <insert your favorite color here>" color consistency within sets nowadays it should be a little easier to find similar shade, than exactly matching one.  
  > **username_0**: @Rsculz how do you find a lego appropriate paint in cool grey 10 c?  
  > **username_3**: While https://www.bartneck.de/2016/09/09/the-curious-case-of-lego-colors/ claims it's `431 C` :(  
  > **username_3**: There are a few specialist suppliers of Pantone shades, in various sizes - for example: https://www.riolettcustomaerosols.co.uk/products/pantone-431-aerosol-spray-paint/ with small tester pots starting at GBP4.99.  
  > **username_0**: @Zhaph-BenDuguid , i'll try it! if you submit it as an answer I'll accept it  
  > **username_4**: A further thought: what do you want to apply the paint to? Lego? some form of oversize baseplate/background (I've thought about making a wooden tray to neatly hold 3x2 32-stud baseplates, for example)  
  
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  ### Answer by username_4 on 2021-09-17. Score: 4
  
  You can get paint colour-matched, either automotive (good for metal and some plastics) or domestic (for walls, wood, possibly also metal). It's not cheap though.
  
  Look for "paint match service", and find one where you actually take in a sample. The sheen won't be a perfect match, though there may be a choice, and lighting can bring out differences (e.g. if you're painting a large background to match a display.
  
  Alternatively, and quite possibly close enough, there are places with a very wide range of stock colours of car paint. You may have to buy the two or three closest and test on your chosen substrate or something similar; this could still be cheaper, and may be more appropriate given that your mention of Tamiya paints implies small quantities
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_3 on 2021-09-22. Score: 2
  
  There are a few specialist paint suppliers that claim to offer the full range of Pantone® colours, for example in the UK you get a 30ml sample pot of 431-C for about £5 from [Riolet Custom Aerosols](https://www.riolettcustomaerosols.co.uk/products/pantone-431-aerosol-spray-paint/).
  
  Note that there appears to be [some disagreement](https://www.bartneck.de/2016/09/09/the-curious-case-of-lego-colors/) over which Pantone colour matches which LEGO colour, and indeed some disagreement over which hex colour matches which LEGO or Pantone colour...
  
  So somewhere between Pantone 431 and Pantone Cool Grey 10 is probably LEGO Dark Blueish Grey.
  
  
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