It?s not the right color, at least to me it?s not. On the show, it?s brown, on the figure it?s gray.
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I'm wondering if the confusion is the shade of gray - or taupe, really, and what we see on screen is getting affected by lighting and filming. Like reading about filming the Hobbit films, how the cameras would bleed the reds out, so all the actors had to have extra red makeup not to look washed out.
My Gentle Giant bust has a grey undersuit - like a pure grey mix of black and white only, pretty much. Going over a "sunlit" Mando shot, my photo color pick tool thinks the undersuit shade is a kind of taupe (grey/brown mix):
Which dovetails with a comment from
https://www.therpf.com/forums/threads/mando-mandalorian-undersuit-bodysuit-fabric-parts.306601/
The Hot Toys Figure for both of his costumes are also good references to look at although it does confuse me a little bit. His undersuit for the new costume is very clearly brown but the description on sideshow says it is a dark gray. Can somebody confirm this, or at least give their best guess as to whether his undersuit is brown or dark gray? I don't want to start working on one color and then realize that I'm doing the wrong one. Thanks!
the actual color if you want to be specific is pantone 440c, a purplish gray, but thats only for the beskar version, the pre beskar is just dark gray
Then the costumer in the Gallery mentions overdyeing sweaters (think those were from Amazon). I think they used a shade of grey with a lot of red, or orange - and worse, there may be multiple versions of the undersuit that are from different dye lots.
That kind of thing IMO - once u start dealing with shades and color tones and not knowing what info a company is provided with, plus what we see onscreen probably isn't natural lighting...I tried testing a screen grab from the Gallery - fluorescent lights - and the program pick tool still tags this as "grey" with a lot of red....
and a picture lightened up only....
Tho to me the original from that episode looks chocolate brown, not what I think of as "grey/gray". Worse, I think in Season 1, Episode 1 to me Mando looked pretty comfortable - gleaming armor, new thigh plate - and then maybe as the season goes on he was supposed to look more weathered. (HASBRO apparently went *&^% it and painted the undersuit chocolate brown for their Beskar version.)
So I'm not gonna worry about it; I mean a company would hafta decide between actual costume accuracy, which they probably have access to; or try to guess what consumers think they see, with a a color that shifts depending on the light. I mean, it's not like a red where u can tell pretty fast if it is more orange red than blue red. Do think the Beskar would pop more against a more pure chocolate brown, but's that's because the red and blacks in the dyes would get boosted to make more of a chocolate shade. Taupe can look more grey, more brown, or greenish, depending. Except on set, bet everything is fussily hand-dyed, and no way HT is gonna do that.
Seriously considering just dying it myself to make it more brown. I was watching a video on YouTube of someone removing his costume to get at the fatsuit underneath and it looks like everything is just held together by velcro. I'll have to look up some tutorials on immersion dyeing to see if its worth the effort.
Yeah, that's probably the way to go, since maybe/probably HT went with what they think of as "gray" - some stock color dye, without doing the toning to make taupe.
