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(...) Ok, what are we going to call the color? Green... Muted Green? Green-Gray? Washed-Green? Verdis-Green? Only people with the parts in hand should actually get to vote. -Jon (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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My vote's for Verdigris, even though this color's used in non-copper sets :) It's kind of mossy looking, not swampy, but mossy.. I love it :) (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) People should bear in mind that there are blue & red versions of this color as well. i.e. muted blue, muted red. Whatever name you chose you might want to apply it to these other colors as well. I do have the parts btw, but I will let others (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) The word "green" should be in the name, I guess Antique Green would be good. (I think I might have been the one that started the thread on "Verdigris".) If people want Verdigris, then I want dark pink to be "Magenta". And that opens up (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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I, for one, can't go along with that at all. We should attempt to be consistant with whatever TLG ends up on calling it for the general public. Not that we may know that yet, but we certainly can influence it. Case in point - Note the Beige group (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I agree with that. But.... I wonder what TLG is calling it? (aside from 'new' green) If we decide on a name & then they call it something else... (I know I said I would let others decide, but suddenly I have nothing else to do at work). (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Didn't work that way for Tan... (and I'm still sticking with Teal for the torquoise green) As long as we're at it - I've been puzzling over the current Belville Blue - which looks like Blue-Purple. There seems to be 3 apporaches to color (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) 47 would be an unfortunate choice -- color code 47 in LDraw is Clear. :) Has anyone compiled a list of TLC color numbers? I know they use the color number as part of the part ID, but I've never caught the actual values. Steve (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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Oops. Forgot to reply to a point I meant to reply to... (...) Teal and Turquiose are two different colors. Teal appeared in Cyberslam/Competition and Rock Raiders. Turquiose has appeared in ... the Mindstorms Droid Developer Kit (R2D2). I'm sure (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I agree with that completely. (...) Really? I think that'd be most cool, as it's the closest thing to the proper word for the color of rusted copper. "Verdigris Green" seems to be more proper, but you know kids... (...) Hmm. When I think of (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) It is called "verdigris green" on Brickbay.com . /Eric McC/ (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Isn't that sort of redundant redundant, like saying Turquoise Blue or Lemon Yellow? 8^) Dave! (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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I can't remember what TLC calls gray-green but I remember I didn't like it. It was sorta Martha Stewart-ish. not descriptive. Might be helpful to look at my chart from last May: (URL) to be updated. but as you can see, (since about 4 years ago) all (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Yes, it is redundant. But the redundancy is useful because fewer people know what "verdigris" means than "turquoise" or "lemon". /Eric McC/ (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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"Suzanne D. Rich" <suz@baseplate.com> wrote in message news:G4uz3J.Cp@lugnet.com... (...) it. It (...) TLC's (...) Isn't this a direct result of how they do their molding and coloring of the parts? -- Tim Courtney - tim@zacktron.com (URL) - (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) The teal/turquiose issue confused me while entering parts on my brickbay shop. I thought the pieces found in cyberslam were teal, yet while searcing brickbay, everybody has them listed under turquiose. (OK, not everybody, there is one piece (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I won't be calling it "new green" unless i need to explain it to someone who doesn't have a dictionary handy to look up verdigris :) I'm not saying verdigris is the best name, just that it's the best temporary choice. (...) Verdigris green is (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) c/rusted/oxidized/ Many metals oxidize but only metals that are mostly the element iron "rust". ++Lar (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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Jon Kozan wrote in message ... (...) I was happy with verdigris before, but having seen the actual color (from the LOM sets) and bearing in mind the new murky blue and murky pink in the LOM sets, I don't think verdigris is correct any more. For one (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Martian Green anyone ? (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) yes, I believe so. -Suz (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Actually that is not correct. Although "rust" most commonly refers to the hydrated ferric oxide coating found on iron, it more correctly refers to the coating produced by corrosion on any metal. The verb form of "rust" refers in general to the (...) (24 years ago, 1-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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anyone else see the irony (pun intended) of someone called Shiner setting us all straing about rust?? 8?) ROSCO FUT: lugnet.off-topic.pun (...) (24 years ago, 1-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I'm confused...I thought LEGO called it "Aqua." --Todd (24 years ago, 2-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) One more data point, FWIW: according to LEGO Direct, the official internal name for the new green is: Sand Green (in English, anyway; my understanding is that it's different in Danish). I don't know if that's what LEGO will call it when they (...) (24 years ago, 2-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Hmm, I wouldn't think of it as a sand color, but that does make sense with the appearance that the green may really have been developed for the Life on Mars sets, along with then presumably Sand Red and Sand Blue (I wonder if we will see Sand (...) (24 years ago, 3-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Not exactly. It seems that some by definitions, verdigris is a patina -- it's the substance that forms on the surface of oxidized copper, not the color itself. See the entries at (URL). Close to the end, there's a link to "verdigris green", (...) (24 years ago, 3-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Don't get started on official terms. We're having a hard enough time with the official unofficial words. ;) Steve (24 years ago, 3-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) And of course, Sand Tan, uhh, has been out for several years... Steve (24 years ago, 3-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) No, I don't think tan is a member of the "sand" family of colors. It doesn't have a greyness to it. Sand yellow would be similar to tan, but I don't think it would be the same. Frank (24 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) It is now also listed as Sand Green in the Statue of Liberty description in the Jan 2001 S@H catalog. Have to wonder if they refer to the LOM red and blue (and maybe even the purple) in a similar fashion.... John #388 (24 years ago, 26-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) It's beginning to appear to me that the red, blue, and purple from LOM are sand red, sand blue, and sand purple. It's also beginning to be apparent that tan and sand yellow are the same color Note that there are "gates" for the transport (...) (24 years ago, 27-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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