Color Fan Decks, Commercial and Standards

[ReducedAirFact]

Some of the posts in this forum attempt to translate the old Methuen colors into more accessible formats. The following tables list commercial (house) vendors (whose fan-decks are very affordable) and color standards. You can use the colors in a fan deck to compare to a hobby paint or to create a custom mix.


Commercial Brands
BrandNotesCostLinks
Beauti-ToneCanadian?
BehrHome DepotUS$20fan deck (http://www.homedepot.com/b/Paint-Paint-Colors-Trim-Color-Chips-Fan-Decks/N-5yc1vZbucl)
Benjamin MooreAceUS$30fan deck (http://store.benjaminmoore.com/storefront/shop-by-product/color-tools/color-preview-fan-deck/prodM2440565TL.html)
Duluxalso CIL and others?fan deck? (https://www.duluxtradepaintexpert.co.uk/colours/campaigns/colour-palette-2015)
PPG deck? (https://www.ppgvoiceofcolor.com/designer/color-tools)
Farrow & BallUK?
GliddenShares with Dulux?
Little GreeneUK£15fan deck (http://www.littlegreene.com/zz-lg-colour-scales-fandeck)
PPGPittsburgh, Porter, ..
Sherwin-WilliamsUS$12.50fan deck (http://www.sherwin-williams.com/home-builders/color/tools/color-fan-decks-and-color-files/)
ValsparLowe's, AceUS$40fan deck (http://www.lowes.com/pd/Valspar-1750-Color-Paint-Fan-Deck/3054397)



Standards
StandardNotesCostLinks
Australian Standard??
British StandardUS$50,£44fan deck (http://www.finepaintsofeurope.com/store/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=13)
fan deck (http://www.e-paint.co.uk/products.asp?cat=51)
CIEL*a*ba perceptually uniform color space£50sample fan deck (http://www.e-paint.co.uk/products.asp?cat=59)
DIN 6164?details (http://www.vcsconsulting.co.uk/Colour/Help/ColourOrderSystems/DIN6164.html)
Federal Standard (FS) 595calso a,b earlier standards
1xxxx=glossy; 2xxxx=semi; 3xxxx=matteUS$158,£156fan deck (http://www.estore.fed-std-595.com/)
fan deck (http://www.e-paint.co.uk/products.asp?cat=60)
MethuenOut of Print, 1266 colors~$150-$250 used
NCS 1950Sweden£210fan deck (http://www.e-paint.co.uk/products.asp?cat=62)
Pantoneprint and fabric focused
U=Uncoated, C=Coated$thousandslink (http://www.pantone.com/pages/pantone/index.aspx)
RALGermany: Classic, Design, & Effect decks£47,113,43Classic (http://www.e-paint.co.uk/products.asp?cat=39)
Design (http://www.e-paint.co.uk/products.asp?cat=52)
Effect (http://www.e-paint.co.uk/products.asp?cat=56)
Australian link (http://ralcolours.com.au/)

[Diamondback]

If you can find a copy, there were also Reichsluftministerium (RLM) standards for pre-1945 Germany. I'm not sure if that was strictly Nazi, or if it started in the Weimar days--most German fighter undersurfaces were usually RLM 66 Hellblau ("Light Blue") IIRC.

[Jager]

Some reading I've done indicates that the directives themselves were propagated by the Luftwaffe (the earliest extant is from 1938); they do carry over directives from earlier, though, concerning colors and pigments to be used.
Karl