✅- Can someone help find good paint color?

[oak folio]

I am currently looking for a darker green spray paint for a cosplay I'm working on. I can't seem to find a good color that matches the source material enough.

Are any of you able to tell me a good paint color that is as accurate as possible?

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[oak folio]

I am looking for the olive green color, I have a dupli-color matte clear coat I can use so aslong as the color matches I am good

[near ore]

Just a comment about "matching the color":
As a long time recreationist let me give you a word of advice…

There are two schools of thought on color matching.
1 - Production matched. Actual color as used on the actual prop by the prop department. At first this seems like a no brainer and that is what you want.
2 - Screen matched. This is what I generally do. This is the color you are presented with on screen after lighting gels and post production color correction. This is the color they wanted to put on screen.

A great example of the difference between these two is the flight suit on Battlestar Galactica 2005. It was made in a near green color. But presented in a gold/copper after all the production. They wanted the audience to see a goldish color and had to use green to get that effect after all the lighting was applied.

You see this same debate with other costumes. Was James Kirk's shirt this color of green or that color of gold, is a hotly contested debate because of all the changes from lighting and the TV tube technology of the 60's.

Like I said, personally I go for "screen matching" colors. I want to wear what people were told to see and thus what they expect. I don't want to spend my day at the convention arguing that my orange costume is the exact same color as the ones used for the show, but due to lighting and post production color correction it looked brown on TV. <gasp> That's a lot to say here: Imagine having this discussion 10 times a day at a convention-Pass!

So again... just one guy's opinion. Watch the show. Pause in the scenes where you see the prop or costume (preferably in the most natural and neutral light possible)
... and decide for yourself what color you see as the audience.

Even if you're just looking at games you still have the same considerations:
What platform for example: Xbox or playstation or PC... Monitor type... all affect the color you see on screen

You can always walk into a paint store and auto parts store and look.
There should be 20 shades of any color... 20 greens...
Because there will be 4 Toyota greens, and 5 Chrysler greens and so on

[oak folio]

That makes sense, thanks for the explanation. I’m trying to go for a screen accurate version. Are there any specific greens I should look at? Cause I live somewhat out in the country and it’s kind of inefficient to go to a store and not get anything

While I was out last I did get some paint swatches that I liked for it but I couldn’t find a spray can that matches it

The chart you sent doesn’t have the type of green I’m going for

[near ore]

Custom mix a color you like and spray it with an airbrush

[oak folio]

I guess it’s worth a try

[raw crag]

and to see the masterchief armour in normal light, not film set, Adam Savage went to FBFX and spent some time looking over the season 1 suit and helmet in detail. and posted a 15 minute video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJVUSldj2SQ

that will give you the colours, but you need to mix those and airbrush it on. best start with a army green colour primer.

[near ore]

I used the TV showin my reference about color, but that's not the cheif the OP is looking to make. Notice the photo they used in their first post

[raw crag]

where OP says he's looking for a darker color, so not the yellowish green from that photo (which isn,t from the show) .

Also, in season 1 Kate Kennedy's armor was different from Pablo Schreiber's. the difference was in the shoulder pieces and the place where back and front armor connect, on top of the shouldersmainly and ofcourse the helmet.

[near ore]

Oh. I know. I've studies the TV show in depth. Way more than I should admit to. I have scrubbed it all in 4k, pretty much frame-by-frame for best photos of just about every detail on the suits, props and so on. Then broke all that down by searchable tags.
My own armor is built to the show not the game.

[raw crag]

the undersuits are the same for all Spartans, the differences are mostly in the torso armour and helmets, they even have different colors, Kai's armour is darker than Masterchief's almost black. and you cannot get the same colour armor as in the show under normal light(TL) if you look at your picture right upper corner, pablo's undersuit even looks olivedrab with brown, but that is because all the ambient light that reflects on the red rocks. the undersuits are really black

[near ore]

Agreed. My season 1 and season 2 undersuits are black. Then dirtied up.

My current armor is, as you said, "not quite black" with accent color. Not 100% to the show color, but great photographically at the conventions.

[near ore]

As to your point of lighting - well yeah. This armor is 90% charcoal. You can see in the earlier picture the entire chest is one color. But then look what happens when you turn on a red light to the side: BAM it looks copper.

That was the point of my original post to the OP: Stop obsessing about matching a given color spec because lighting and environment is going to change the look of it anyway.

[raw crag]

basically pablo's armour is olivedrab with a bit of brown and black mixed in to make it darker, but still visibly olive. Kai's armor is black with a bit of olive drab mixed in most of the time it looks like black because of that

because of the lighting during filming changing hundred times there is no one color

[twilit lily]

That looks AMAZING 🔥

[near ore]

Thanks!

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