FE-FC Holden Discussion Forum

Guys we are close to sending the FC  wagon model for production and I very much need your assistance in realising what would be the most popular two tone colour scheme for a special wagon.
I really need your help to get this right so please make the effort you voice your opinion. We hope to produce the most accurate 1/43rd model of a wagon to date and the FC ute will follow then the FE wagon and ute if the FC is successful. Please assist.
Regards
Red Devil

Hi
What about a 2 tone Blue or Green I know I will get in trouble for this suggestion a 2tone Gray or Red and White. You could even have one of the colors with white.
WAYNE

Hooeey, that's a hard one, a bit like when one's partner asks which outfit you like - you KNOW what the answer must be.

I suspect if you asked 20 people this question, you'd get 20 different answers and the only one you wouldn't get is for a single tone example ;D. I suggest you look at the Technical section for the various colour combos and then model them in FE/FC Paint tools section. It might be an idea to avoid combos that Trax have already done.

Ken McLean would know for sure, but looking at the paint code list FC combos appear to start at 254 which is Wangarra over Ascot Grey, the two tones prior to that look to be FE combos.

Hope this helps a little.

Cheers
John

The best way to find out would be to put up a poll in the General area of some combos and go from there.
If you pick the most popular colours by the build totals you run the risk of having duds because favourite colours back in the day aren't necessarily what is liked now.
Personally I like the Aqua/White combo, mainly because my wagon is that.
(http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b137/stinky456/20080807%20FC%20Station%20Sedan%20Project/03.jpg)

Thanks Stinky, hey nice looking ride you have and I like the combo a lot. I hope the club gets behind this model and has a lot of input as it will possibly be the only FC wagon ever built for an awful long time and we intend to get it as right as the manufacturing process will allow.
Thanks for your input.
Red Devil

You certainly wouldn't want to go with historical data - the most popular colours were grey and white followed by 2 tone grey.
IMHO the most popular colours today have blue in them - either 2 tone blue, and there were a few original combinations, or blue and white.
Red and white is popular as well - but so few genuine red and white wagons exist that there are not many on the road. Red and White would be the most commonly "faked" original colour scheme by a long way.

Ken

Thanks Ken, red and white is my choice but I have to leave my feelings out of this and do justice to the model and what is correct. Thanks for taking the time all this info helps a great deal. We have commissioned one of the best model companies on the planet for this exercise with the view of creating a premium model. As stated we hope to follow with the ute and then the FE in wagon and ute.
Regards
John

Really - if you follow Trax at all - and you should if you're making models - you would see how long it takes to sell each of the FC's which were released. Just looking at the last 4;
The red and white sold very quickly
Don't do Terraglow and Ivory - it was a dog
The 2 tone blue one sold out much quicker than the green and white one

I'm not 100 % convinced that you guarantee a winner just by carefully choosing by some analytical method the most popular colour scheme of all time. Any popular colour will do IMHO. OK OK I agree that the pink car looking back was a mistake (you FC people need to get in touch with your feminine sides ;D)
But 2 tone green, green and white, 2 tone blue, blue and white, brown and white, red and white, black and white, black and yellow, tan and white all look good and would all be successful. Even grey and white and 2 tone grey would be successful if the model is good - however Trax have told me that they purposefully steer away from grey as a colour :P

To this time Trax have not done a Corsair Tan and India Ivory FC model - there's a thought.

The other point I would make is that if you can find an edge it helps. I particularly like the models which have advertising on the side, or parts in the back, or a stripe kit, or something else which makes them novel.
Evidence this by the FC taxi series - who would have believed you could sell 6 FC taxis. People loved them because they were different.

Ken

Ken, in your defence - since I criticised the Terraglow car earlier elsewhere - IMHO if the pink car had been painted in Terraglow as you intended, rather than candy pink, the model would have been as pretty as you imagined it would be and was not a mistake, the execution was the problem.

Its odd that Trax say they steer away from grey, as they currently offer a grey EK sedan and ute and a grey XK F****n.

I really don't care what colours the model is, provided the colours are authentic and accurate, but would prefer it wasn't bright red.

Cheers

John

I think you know where my vote will go  ;D

I can,t see a problem with polished undercoat sorry I mean grey &grey
regards greyone

I would go for the yellow  and black combo every time because it is such a classic.  So the only solution is to have more than one colour scheme available.

I can't wait to get my hands on one (or more) of these.

Cheers
David

Thanks Ken, 70 XU1, David and John, this sort of feedback is vital and accurate. I must say the Corsair Tan and white has a good feel. Can anyone now help with the exchange rate, it's killing us. Thank you again it really helps us get it right.
Red Devil
John

My vote is for Blue/white combo or white/black combo

Keith

Thanks Kieth appreciate your input it all helps.
Red Devil

I can't say as how I can qualify this but heres a thought.

All "GOLD"

50th Anniversary edition since Trax won't do one.....

Interesting but probably not the most popular, however as a limited edition anniversary model it has merit.
Thank you for your time and interest.
Regards
John

John,

We all humour Paul, but there is no call for being that polite when he has one of his "ideas" - it only encourages him.  ;)

Cheers
David

ohhhhhh, I still luv ya Paul who ever you are.......................
Red Devil

 We know you leprechauns are obsessed with your gold Paul, but a gold FC :o ;) :D :D
                                                                 Pedro

You got that right Pedro, a gold FE .... yes, but everyone knows the FC should be silver, maybe even bronze  :P  ;D

Pedro,

He is just having a shot at us, Paul wouldn't dare do that to an FE

 :D :D :D :D