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Decal Colour Selection

This page shows the range of colours available for incorporation into decals, usually as a background colour that matches the paint colour of your model where the decal is to be applied. To use it to select a paricular colour, please click on the button below the relevant colour patch. This will take you back to the main decals ordering page while setting the decal colour to that of the patch you have selected.

The current status (availability) of each colour is shown below its patch. These have the following meanings:

Matched: The specified paint colour has been matched successfuly, and the colour is available for immediate use.
Sample: A paint sample is available for the paint colour, but it has not yet completed the matching process. Delivery of your decals could take 2–3 days longer while the matching is done.
Paint: Paint is available for producing a sample for the paint colour, but it has not yet completed the matching process. Delivery of your decals could take 5–7 days longer while the sample is generated and the matching is done.
Order: No paint is available for the paint colour, so it has not yet completed the matching process. Delivery of your decals could take 4–6 weeks longer while I obtain the necessary paint, generate the sample and the matching is done. You could speed this up by supplying me with a suitable sample, painted onto flat material such as plastic sheet at least 2cm on a side. Please let me know if you wish to do this and I will provide details of how to send your sample to me.

For those colours that I have already matched, the colour of the patch is the colour I have to give to my printer to produce the specified colour in a decal. For the other colours, the patch colour has been obtained from other sources, such as a scan of the manufacturer's printed colour chart, or the manufacturer's website; the colour shown is therefore only approximate. In both cases the colour you see on screen will only approximate the specified paint colour. In some cases I have been unable to obtain a suitable colour specification so the patch is shown as grey with a large X in the middle.

The paint type (Matt, Dull, Satin, Gloss or Metallic) is also indicated. The decals will be printed with a basically matt finish, with a certain amount of sheen depending on how much of the glossy backing film shows through. I cannot print metallic colours, so decals will be printed with a flat colour that approximates the general appearance of the metallic colour.

The typical use for the colour is indicated, as the name of a railway company, or "General" for those colours not associated with a specific railway. For some colours further usage notes are also provided.

Filter and Sort Colours

The number of paint colours available is large, so I have provided a number of filters that you can use to reduce the number of colours you see, to home in on the colour you want.

Within a filter specification, the various options are combined as "OR". That is, the more options you select, the more colours that will be displayed. The "Any" option causes all of the other options for that filter to be ignored, and has to be deselected for the other options to take effect.

However, the different filters are combined as "AND". That is, to be displayed a colour has to match all of the filters.

Filter by Colour Group

Note: Grey includes blacks and whites, Yellow includes creams, Brown includes oxides, bauxites and stones.

Filter by Paint Brand

Note: Phoenix Precision includes Cherry.

Filter by Colour Use

Note: Other is any other railway company; General is a colour intended for general (not railway-specific) use.

Sort Filtered Colours

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Notes:

The default order is first by brand (in order Railmatch, Humbrol, Phoenix, then others), then by paint number. For Humbrol colours, paint type (in the order Matt, Satin, Gloss and Metallic) is sorted before the paint number.
Sorting by number sorts alphanumerically by paint number. These generally start with a letter indicating the brand, so sorting by number also sorts by brand (in alphabetical order).
Sorting by colour group results in the order: Blues, Greys, Greens, Oranges, Purples, Reds, Browns, and Yellows.
Where a colour has a list of values for use, rather than a single value, the sort by use will act on the complete list, primarily using the first value in the list, followed by the remaining values.

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No colours match your filter specification.