Gear Color Comparison Guide

[Knief]

Matching gear colors from different manufacturers can be tough if you haven't seen their products in person. Let's build a collection of side-by-side comparison photos of gear from different manufacturers and their comparable color options. Below is a comparison between Eagle Industries khaki, Pantac khaki, FLYYE khaki, Pantac Coyote Brown, and a bit of FLLYE Coyote Brown.






If you have a camera capable of taking high quality pictures and some gear to compare, your contribution would be very helpful. Because companies may change their dyes over time, and because not every camera captures colors the same, feel free to add photos of brands and colors that have already been posted. The larger the archive, the more useful this thread is.

[Crapshoot]

Vote for sticky.

[Knief]

I will sticky it, but I want people to see it first, and everybody knows that nobody reads stickies.

[Legionnaire]

Excellent idea. Would love to contribute but I've already dusted all my gear with paint.

[Carnage]

Uh... Where's Knife?

[Dahm]

Good point.

It seems like most of the manufacturers are calling CB (Coyote Brown) Khaki instead. I find that interesting.

[Thor]

A lot of what is called khaki would probably be more accurately described as Coyote Tan. Not quite as dark as CB, but not as light as khaki.

[Knife]

What little I can add:

Eagle Industries 2005 Coyote Brown
Flyee Coyote Brown
Allied Industries 2004/2005 Coyote Brown

Here are two photos I have saved from years ago. I did not take them and I'm not sure who originally compiled them, I suspect I found them on Arnies in 08 or so.

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Its important to note that colors will change between batches of fabric. Eagle Industries and Allied Industries have both changed fabrics over time, and that's resulted in changes in color.

That's about all I've got to offer at this point, most of my stuff is monochromatic these days, so I have little to compare.

While not gear color, these can be useful for distinguishing between AOR1/AOR2 and MARPAT.

MARPAT Left, AOR1 Right

[helmet]

Awesome thread, it helped me out a lot distinguish the different shades of Tan between varying companies. Even though I'm colorblind I can still see the differences, much obliged.

[Dallas]

Ranger Green and OD anyone?

Vote to sticky this!

[Gimpalong]

Found these while Googling.

[Ghast]

Those aren't really helpful though since the point is to use player based input on the color difference between manufacturers and fabric types.

[Gimpalong]

I disagree, Ghast.

The first image identifies coyote browns made by various manufacturers, while the second image identifies a variety of different greens made by different manufacturers. For example, in the second image I, J and N are all called "Ranger Green" and made by different manufacturers. Likewise, there are a variety of Olive Drabs identified by manufacturer.

I thought the point of this thread was to allow players to differentiate between what manufacturer A calls "walnut brown" and what manufacturer B calls "walnut brown."

[Knief]

I'm with Gimpalong on this one. Player input is great because we can control how we shoot the gear to ensure we're capturing it as accurately as possible. But that doesn't make the above shots less informative (their shitty list at the bottom does that. Bazing!). They did the same thing I did, but with green. It doesn't really matter who captures the picture and lists the gear as long as it's done well and labeled correctly.

[Relarz]

That first pic of gimpalongs is from in URpeacekeeper over on arnies? I recognize that grunt kit.