Dyno Don's Colors

[Snake45]

I'm in the planning stages of a couple Dyno Don builds, specifically the '65 Cyclone and the '67 Cyclone funny Eliminator II. Trying to nail down the colors. 

The '65 car looks pretty easy. Looks like a straight bright red in the several color photos in the Dyno Don book. It might well have been factory '65 Carnival Red (Ford Rangoon Red); it's definitely NOT Poppy Red.  OTOH, in the pic showing it on the Chevy truck, they look like the same color, so maybe DD had it painted a "special" red.  At any rate, I'll probably go with good ol' Testor #3/Guards Red for this one. 

Here's a '65 Cyclone and '65 Mustang I shot last year at a local car show, both supposedly wearing original factory paint. (Both looked a little brighter in real life than in these particular pics.) 

 

Eliminator II is harder to pin down. In some pics it looks like a darker red (like Testor #4) and in others almost maroon. At the moment I'm thinking of going with Model Master Stop Light Red metallic over white primer, but who knows what I'll do by build time. 

The more pics I look at of Eliminator (the '66 Cyclone funny), the more convinced I am that it was '66 Mercury/Ford Emberglow. 

Anyone have any definitive info on any of these? 

 

[John Pol]

Looks like poppy red whitch if your micheals still sell Odds& Ends spray paint

[Snake45]

23 minutes ago, John Pol said:

Looks like poppy red whitch if your micheals still sell Odds& Ends spray paint

Ford "Poppy Red" is actually more of an orange. Think Gas Ronda's Mustangs. 

Just looked through the Dyno Don book again, and in one of the captions, it says that "Mercury suggested cardinal red" for the '67 car. "Cardinal Red" was a factory '67 Merc color, same paint code as Ford '67 Candyapple Red, also same paint code on '66 Ford Candyapple red.  Google-image search for '67 Cardinal Red Mercs shows pics in a range of red colors, but many of them are a bit dark. Hmmmmm, now I'm thinking Testor #4 red for that one....

[RiderZ]

Or how about this color red,honestly it looks more of a blue than red to me.

LOL!!!

[mustang1989]

I did a little research on this color for my Maverick and came up with Tamiya TS-86 Pure Red. Here's the link Rich. Tell me what you think: https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=tamiya+pure+red&fr=yfp-t&imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbhc.com.au%2Fassets%2Ffull%2F75-T85086.jpg#id=4&iurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbhc.com.au%2Fassets%2Ffull%2F75-T85086.jpg&action=click

[Snake45]

1 hour ago, mustang1989 said:

I did a little research on this color for my Maverick and came up with Tamiya TS-86 Pure Red. Here's the link Rich. Tell me what you think: https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=tamiya+pure+red&fr=yfp-t&imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbhc.com.au%2Fassets%2Ffull%2F75-T85086.jpg#id=4&iurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbhc.com.au%2Fassets%2Ffull%2F75-T85086.jpg&action=click

Hard to judge color from a computer monitor but that looks very much like Testor #3 Red. Thanks! 

[SteveG]

For what it's worth Snake I painted mine in the factory color Carnival Red aka Ford Rangoon Red as it looked correct to me.  I really can't think of a reason why it wasn't painted that color as Poppy Red is really Orange and noticeably different in most photos.    

Steve 

 

 

[Snake45]

32 minutes ago, SteveG said:

For what it's worth Snake I painted mine in the factory color Carnival Red aka Ford Rangoon Red as it looked correct to me.  I really can't think of a reason why it wasn't painted that color as Poppy Red is really Orange and noticeably different in most photos.    

Steve 

 

 

Sounds like a plan, and looks like a great model! Thanks! 

[mustang1989]

2 hours ago, Snake45 said:

Hard to judge color from a computer monitor but that looks very much like Testor #3 Red. Thanks! 

Sorry Rich. I've just got the paint in the mail a few days ago and should start the painting process on mine soon so we'll see how close of a match it is.