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smittymike19

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Long story, bear with me. I’m rebuilding my 72 bronco. I’ve decided to paint it Area 51 based on all of the amazing photos floating around here. I call a Ford dealer and they give me the code “ku”. I call my local paint supply store and they say they have ku and it says it’s Area 51 by Ford 2021. Things are going well. I go pick up a sample (thank god) and the sample is super dark. Weird. It matches the color on her screen. So I head to the Ford dealer and ask for a pamphlet for the paint colors. He hands me a pamphlet that shows Area 51. Problem is, it’s dark. Like charcoal gray dark. He then pulls out a book that has 8x11 sheets of the color. Again it’s charcoal gray. He shows me the online selection and again it’s very dark.
I’m not saying it’s slightly darker I’m saying the colors don’t look like they are related. Anyone know what’s up?

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The bronco sport in A51 does look darker than some of the pics we've seen in some photos of the pre production bronco and others look similar. I believe it's due to being in sunlight or not You can find posts that show the paint in shadow and in the sun. It looks different
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Maybe wait until production hits? Sunlight plays a factor, however, the color swatches I’ve received from local Ford dealers look nothing like the images we’ve been seeing. Cactus Gray looks like a pale flat gray (no greenish hue), Cyber Orange was dark orange (not yellow), A51 is like dark gray/green-ish and less blue-ish, etc. I was in the parking lot holding the Velocity Blue swatch next to a Velocity Blue Mustang and Ecosport. The car/vehicle colors looked the same but neither looked like the paint swatch. It’s frustrating for all of us Bronco enthusiasts eagerly confused and waiting to order and receive our Broncos. I know a large dilemma with many are selecting the colors. I feel confident that the colors we’ve been seeing in person and on 6G will be the accurate Productions. I’m anticipating A51 to be exactly like the images we’ve been seeing and not this paint swatch.

EDIT: example: neither of these Cyber Orange swatches look like the images we’ve been seeing.
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This was the A51 swatch Ford showed me.
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Velocity Blue:
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Look at the top of the hood in direct sunlight. Look below the grill where it's shaded. The color looks different.
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Use white primer behind it and when you hit it with clear it will brighten up. Get some of the black and white spray out cards and see the difference.

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Did you apply a clear coat? That’s going to brighten it up.
 

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I’ve seen the Area 51 in person and it looked baby blue to me. Here are some pics I took of it:







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That one looks the most accurate to me . Even in sunlight I still saw a lot of the grey tones . It's going to look different to different people though . That shade of blue is just one of those colors that play with peoples perception .
 
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Thanks for all of the replies. I like the idea that this will have a gray tone to it. But there is zero percent chance that the color sheet they have at the dealers, which matches the paint I have mixed up, turns into the baby blue in these pics. When I hold the lid up to my phone to compare against these pictures, the color isn’t in the same stratosphere. Even my paint guy who does this for a living said there’s something way off.look at this picture. The color on the left is what he’s starting off with as Area 51. The sheet the dealer has looks like what is on the we site

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