The flash lightens the pinstripe, but its about right to the eye. I actually cheated with the pinstripe, its not paint. I found some 1/64" blue pinstripe tape online, so used that.
Covers small flaws in the paint from when the mask was removed too.
Its more the red and blue, they're close, but i dunno, hard to explain. They just sort of feel a bit off compared to the real thing..
That being said, i read an article somewhere ages ago on a military modelling forum about the guys who will match paint chips from the real thing, to a model colour. But then when painted, the model doesnt look right.
Apparently there is something in the way the eye sees things that doesnt see the same colour when something is scaled down. Ie: a real red truck and a model truck in the same red, look like different colours because of how we percieve the scale.
And to add to the mayhem, there seem to be multiple shades of red on the truck.
The rear fenders, the sleeper flames, and the cab flames are different. Not to mention the orange/red faded hood.
