Please help me understand the Vallejo model color number scheme

[pest947]

Ok so I started out wanting to make a complete set of Vallejo Model colors and I quickly realized that would be way too many colors to work with. So I am thinning out the set and I thought I was understaning the number scheme as far as which colors\\shades go together.

There seems to be for the most case a 900 series number and a 800 series number every other color if you use the 1-220 rack numbers. For the most part the 900s seem to go together and 800s go together, but manyu times that isn\'t the case.

Does anyone know how the number scheme truly works or could point me to a website with an explination? I couldnt find much on a Google search.

 

[kaengol]

hi

maybe this website can help you.


vallejo

regards
kaengol

 

[Duende]

Ask the source.

I looked over the Vallejo site but I couldn\'t find an explanation the the color numbering system there either. But there is an e-mail, maybe you could just ask them directly: vallejo@acrylicosvallejo.com

Hope this helps you!

 

[pest947]

Thanks for the email address. I will give that a try. The first place I did check was the Vallejo site, unfortunatley like you said there wasn\'t an explination there

 

[QuietiManes]

Nost likely they used to have a system, and left numbers for new colours then the spaces filled up, now they just stick them in wherever they can when a new colour is made.

That\'s my theory.

 

[Shawn R. L.]

It might have something to do with the Pantone color chart (a industry color standard for the printing industry)....mabey.