For the record folks Humbrol 170 is (or was) called 'Brown Bess'.

I see it quoted as 'Bess Brown' all the time, quite a lot recently too - but to me it reads like 'Rifle Pulse' or 'Thrower Flame'. There's no such paint as Bess Brown.

Don't believe me? Try typing Bess Brown into Google and see what happens!

-Harry

no no no !

the correct name is : Uniformbraun


-joerg

...but it's pronounced "throat wobbler mangrove".

Spelt; L u x u r y Y a c h t

What are you doing with a gun in space?

My apologies....guess my dyslexia kicked in...
Ill have my wife hit me in the back of the head, should take care of it.


Derek
Pvt.
D.Smith
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You know us military types Harry... Like to name everything backwards.
Now who's for some biscuits brown?

Ha - in the german army it´s the same.

everything is named backwards with a "," between.
like "Kampfstiefel, schwarz" (boot, black)

But the best is our ZDV (hard to translate - it´s something like the handbook /manual for all soldiers in german army)

The best two orders are:

"if you reach the top of a tree, you have to stop climbing by yourself"

and

"if you are standing in water and it is reaches your chest, you have to start swimming by your self!

no lie...

I love it! That´s why i am an USCM in my freetime
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I am fairly pleased with the search results under Google's 'images' tab.
Tom
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Harry is right, as always!

My last post was slightly tongue - in - cheek. However, the fifth image made me feel proud and was wondering if anyone else noticed it.

Of course Harry is correct. He's my hero!!

That's where I was going wrong.. I was looking for Brown Bees... D'Oh!
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It's the 21st Century and where are the flying cars...??
-I was *promised* flying cars.....

It is Humbrol 170 but I believe they no longer make it.

A bunch of the marine guys cornered the market in this not long before the NSC event and I'm not sure if there is any left anywhere.

I just recently found two tins from a hobby shop
in the UK.

It was their last two tins and the owner told me
he would write to me when more comes in.

I'm guessing that is an email I will never recieve.
<span style="color:gray;font-family:century gothic;font-size:small;]Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someone's neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what is that thing.

Another UK Online Model shop has Brown Bess.......
www.anticsonline.co.uk/

Ja
Steel bonnet

"Humbrol 14ml Enamel 186 Matt Brown Bess"

Does anyone know why it's number is 183 and not 170?


Paul.

The Colony - My collection and current prop projects.

Because its the wrong colour.
^speaking from experience^

SAS
Anything that, in happening causes itself to happen, happens again.

So Sidewinder,

That`s not brown bess then? How much is it off from you experiance?

Seems strange having the same name on two different colours IMHO.

I`ve just ordered some along with some other colours I needed anyway.Though I don`t have a "correct" brown Bess to compare this one with,so any help would be usefull

Ja
Steel Bonnet

Hi all

Just found this web site with paint conversion numbers for Vallejo Model Color : www.creativemodels.net/hu...ersion.htm

going by their where to get it chart there are loads of dealers, so might be quite good if anyone with a tin of 170 could go and check against this stuff and see.

Don

Its way off, #186 is totally brown man.

However I just got some Humbrol Authentic Colour MC6 Brown Bess - this is a #170 equivalent apparently. We shall see, though I don't have any 'proper' #170 to compare it with.

Also Revell # 46 is apparently a #170 equivalent...?

SAS

So Brown Bess is most similar to RAL 7013 which is RGB 84.59 79.72 65.72 (decimal) which is approximately #555042 in HTML Hex notation.

Additionally, the colour table also confirms that Revell 046 Nato Olive Matt is a good match for Brown Bess.

After a recent 'interesting' conversation on FB about 170 and the so called ral number equivalent, I've been doing some research and found this, it's interesting, I have no idea if it is true but.....

http://philsworkbench.blogspot.co.uk/20 ... olour.html

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here is another link to that colour

http://www.gaugemaster.com/item_details.asp?code=RM402

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Interesting, thanks for posting that Graham.

I've ordered a jar and I'll test it against something original from the film that was painted in the Brown Bess colour like the Smart Gun headset, Ripley's data disc, shoulder lamp etc. and will let you know.

Harry

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thanks harry that will be good

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I can't say when I can get this done as everything is in storage but I'm sure I can access it relatively easily. Give me a couple of weeks though at least.

Harry

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