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CIE 1950s light green - preferred commercial paint shade?

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Fairly soon I will have some carriages to paint in CIE 1950s light green. 

I am looking for people's recommendations for a commercial enamel paint shade (e.g. Precision, Humbrol, Railmatch) that is an acceptable match for this. I'd prefer to avoid mixing something up each time. 

What looks right?

What is a good match to the IRM A42 model? Though I confess that is a bit bright to my eyes but weathering will tone it down.

I was also hoping to have some green IRM Park Royals by now, but hey-ho.

 

I appreciate that greens are notoriously hard to judge, and photos of real coaches and locos with different degrees of weathering and fading can show quite different shades even if the paint was from the same tin. 

Precision CIE green is definitely a darker shade and probably the 1940s green. 

Railmatch Malachite is about the right brightness but to my eyes is a bit too blue. Phoenix offer two different shades of SR Malachite though.

The LNER had two shades of loco green - Doncaster and Darlington - are either of those any good for CIE light green?

Below are Precision's 2 shades of malachite and 2 shades of LNER green. Of course there may be many other options.

S.R. Pre War MalachiteS.R. Post War MalachiteG.N.R / L.N.E.R. Loco Green (Doncaster Shade) & Coach Green [Tourist Stock]image.png.28eac8c9537974e9c3d74581b153b597.png

 

 

Many thanks,

Mol

 

 

 

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