Tip For Painting German/austrian/swiss Trains

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  1. solicitr

    solicitr Well-Known Member

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    If you want your colors to be dead-on, here is a chart of all the official colors used by DRG/DR/DBB/DBAG/OBB/SBB with - this is HUGE! - RAL codes, which can be looked up for RGB or Hex equivalents.

    https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAL-Eisenbahnfarben

    So, for example, Traffic Red (Verkehrsrot) is RAL 3020, which is represented digitally by RGB 187, 30, 16; Hex #bb1e10; and HSV 5, 91, 73
     
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    Cramnor Well-Known Member

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    Does any of that translate to the colour system DTG has implemented? Because it is neither RAL, RGB nor Hex in the livery editor.
     
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    solicitr Well-Known Member

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    There are any number of online conversion pages that will turn RGB or Hex codes into the HSV used by Livery Designer. Or you can use a graphics program like Photoshop or GIMP for the conversion, since they implement pretty much all the various digital color-specification systems.
     
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    vogelm10 Well-Known Member

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    Unless you are a poor console player.....lol then you may as well do my method. I hold a photo of the train on my phone up to my tv and eyeball it until they look like a match!
     
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    solicitr Well-Known Member

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    I'm pretty sure you can access color-conversion routines on your phone, too.
     
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    Does the color system used by DTG have a specific name? so that I know what to look for on Google
     
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    solicitr Well-Known Member

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    HSV (Hue, Saturation, Value)
     
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