When Blue is Grey and Grey is not Blue
During the time before the turn of the Century, everything was well. And Movies were great. We know that T.I.E. Fighters were grey and Spinners were deep blue. But everything changed after Y2K. The Internet grew and everyone started to connect with each other. The whole Planet seemed… reachable.
People started to communicate and a lot of myths were un-mythed. The T.I.E Fighters were blue but under Studio lighting, they became grey. Harsh words and virtual fights became the norm between the purists and the un-initiated. In the end, we realized, things were not what they seemed to be or, what we remembered them to be.
But for me, I’ll take things as it is. Paints change over the years, and so do light sources. I just liked what I saw on the screen and that’s it.
The Pantone 464C
This is the actual colour of the Blade Runner Spinner. And to me, the whole shade is quite ‘boring’. This colour was chosen as Randy Cooper puts it, “No it isn’t. I know people who worked on the film. My spinner has the most accurate color. I’m not saying that out of arrogance. I got the color swatches from them. The reason why it’s a lighter blue is they were shooting at night, and dark blue looks black.. This is also the reason why the miniatures were also painted lighter colors.”
And when it was translated to the screen, the colour changed under the lights and rain on the set, taking a deeper blue hue.
Its HEX value is #4C8DBD. Its RGB value is: 76, 141, 189.
Using the modelshade.com site, I got the following result. And a recent search in my local B2C Platform, the paint can be in the form of a spray. How it reacts with scale model plastic, I’ll know when I want to try it out.
(Image courtesy of https://www.deviantart.com/euderion)
(Image courtesy of spencer1984.com) And my fav was TS-44, which is a little too dark.
(Image courtesy of Mike Arthur)
