shooting cars in the golden hour are always best when ya wanna car to look best.
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kinda marvelous how colors were made from earth. The art of making the color itself just to use to make art.
Instead of just going with the “standard official color match formula” published for this make and model car, you might want instead, to be looking into finding someone who has a color analyzer that would actually produce a custom paint color formulated to match the older (possibly now faded) OEM body color.
I still say a silver/grey “shaker” hood intake scoop on that Corvette might look real good here. ~ Problem solved.
Can’t argue with a bit of chrome! 
Let me restate.
An app that allows scanning say your six bottles of Tamiya paints on the shelf like black, white, red, blue, yellow and green and then can produce a paint formula from those six colors that to match or close to a given sample of field gray…
Take those six colors and provide a formula to mix and match of those 16 field gray jackets.
That would be a handy app.
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Excellent point @Armor_Buff
I have mentioned this elsewhere on this site in the past but I think it bears repeating:
For our modeling purposes, take whatever actual sample of the color you have to Home Depot and for around 5 bucks they will scan the sample and produce a pint of color matched acrylic paint in your choice of gloss, semi or matte.
I have now successfully done this twice while trying to match specific old model railroad colors (American Flyer) for use on repainting or touching up various plastic models.
If not a 100% color match I would say they match 95+%
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Download IModelKit Light. I use the free service and I can mix all kinds of paints to known color charts. If you get the subscription you can pick from an image a location and color match to that. Not 100% to what you’re asking but like 90%.
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Armor_Buff,
Cool comparison. For me I am not super worried about my base PzGray, But I like the details.
Cool post
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I tripped across the same i!mage and saved it for the variations. Along with this one was another picture with the various color on the German canteen/mess kit. I had no idea that item had just as many color variations also.
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Just buy some touch up paint for the model of car you want. It is the correct color and shade.