26-02-2021, 09:43 PM
I'm glad I left the German in on that RAL chart - there it is - blutorange - RAL 2002!
Mike has advised elsewhere about the photographs of all these cars in their day, and the issues with pre-panchromatic film. Ed Waugh has been doing some amazing computery things with black and white images to give suggestions of what may be original colours, presumably from references to known things like skin or sky through various programmes. But the simple fact is that it is throwing wild cards for some, while giving forensic, cross-referenceable, perfect results on others. That Davis car comes out almost black at present...
Mike has advised elsewhere about the photographs of all these cars in their day, and the issues with pre-panchromatic film. Ed Waugh has been doing some amazing computery things with black and white images to give suggestions of what may be original colours, presumably from references to known things like skin or sky through various programmes. But the simple fact is that it is throwing wild cards for some, while giving forensic, cross-referenceable, perfect results on others. That Davis car comes out almost black at present...