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Analysis of Tardis blue paint

I'm still struggling to get the season 9 and 10 look for my 3D printed 1/13 scale Pertwee TARDIS. Can anyone recommend a good base colour that I could lighten or add weathering too please?

I've tried Prussian blue, Pthalo blue, Cerulean, Submarine, flat blue, Cobalt and sky blue, Oxford blue. When I lighten them they either become too grey or too purple. I know weathering with a black wash helps. In some shots throughout these two seasons the TARDIS is a sky bluey green and in others it has a purpleish tinge so i think a mix would be good.

It's a confusing one that's for sure but i'd just like one god base colour to start with :)
 
It may come down to lighting.  And film.  Studio lighting and the way the film captures the image may be causing a color to look the way it does while your household lights and eyeballs perceive it in a totally different way.  Heheh.  Shoot, you could just tell people that:  "This is the accurate color for the 2nd season Pertwee TARDIS.  If you lit it properly, filmed it, and then watched the film, it would be an exact match." 
 
I think I may have the colour of the Season 9 and 10 box.

S 1040-R90B is what I managed to find and it is almost spot on I think.

If it isnt please let me know.
 
Isn't the blue used on the Eccleston/ Tennant box called Oxford blue...?

Also we are gonna need to update this thread with the War doctors TARDIS, series 7,8,9,10 and finally Current TARDIS.
 
Volpone said:
No kidding. Because if you have your own TARDIS, you've seen how much blue can change "color" just depending on the lighting.  Some days mine looks more the blue of the 1980s and other days it looks closer to the blue of the Hartnell episodes--and everywhere in between, just because of the sun and the clouds and such.
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Another good example of paint colour changing due to lighting, and camera quality, is very obvious if you watch the Herbie films... I mean if you compare the original colour, which looks a very light milky cream, to the Monte Carlo paint, which looks a rather dark sandy cream... The difference is obvious side by side... And if I remember correctly they used the same colour in all the films (VW L87 pearl white, for those who are wondering)

The love bug
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Monte Carlo
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I'm currently painting a 1/13 3d printed Hudolin box, anyone know what blue or blues this is please? I use Vallejo paints and have had great success with Prussian blue for the Hartnell, Troughton and C.Baker boxes but when it comes to the other boxes i've really struggled lol and the Hudolin is proving to be the most challenging so far!

Many thanks in advance
 
frax owen said:
I'm currently painting a 1/13 3d printed Hudolin box, anyone know what blue or blues this is please? I use Vallejo paints and have had great success with Prussian blue for the Hartnell, Troughton and C.Baker boxes but when it comes to the other boxes i've really struggled lol and the Hudolin is proving to be the most challenging so far!

Many thanks in advance
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I just painted my own Hudolin. I did a mix of the following:

48% Prussian Blue
48% Cobalt Blue
4% Titanium White

 
And I know I'm replying to a 12-year-old topic but the Davison picture is the publicity shot with the altered Newberry Police box from Castrovalva and Black Orchid, so it's not really a true representation of the main TARDIS used in series 19.
It appeared, unquestionably but it's the least used box in that era.
 
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