2022 Dutch Star ?

[osuallen]

Please tell me what they were thinking? The rear of the 2022 coach is AWFUL! The whole schematic...blah! Why! ?

Comparing a 2021 to @ARD's, (could not find a really similar color combination) it appears that on the side, the 2022 has a lot more of the "skin" color and the other colors are somewhat more concentrated and leave lots of space around the edges of just skin color. In 2021, a slight bit of an accent color wrapped to the front. 2022 - no accent, just the two main colors.

The back......... wow. The design is horrid and massive amounts of just skin color. The accent colors are just all concentrated into that "thing". And, now that @redbaron has described it as "trump hair", I can't seem to get that image out of my head.

We have been targeting upgrading from our Canyon Star to a Dutch Star in 2023. Hopefully we will be back to a more pleasing pattern next year.

 

[redbaron]

And, now that @redbaron has described it as "trump hair", I can't seem to get that image out of my head.

Sorry---I couldn't help myself. I should have realized that it was too true, and kept the observation to myself

 

[Neemer]

Comparing a 2021 to @ARD's, (could not find a really similar color combination) it appears that on the side, the 2022 has a lot more of the "skin" color and the other colors are somewhat more concentrated and leave lots of space around the edges of just skin color. In 2021, a slight bit of an accent color wrapped to the front. 2022 - no accent, just the two main colors.

The back......... wow. The design is horrid and massive amounts of just skin color. The accent colors are just all concentrated into that "thing". And, now that @redbaron has described it as "trump hair", I can't seem to get that image out of my head.

We have been targeting upgrading from our Canyon Star to a Dutch Star in 2023. Hopefully we will be back to a more pleasing pattern next year.

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That is a superb comparison.

 

[osuallen]

Sorry---I couldn't help myself. I should have realized that it was too true, and kept the observation to myself

No worries - it really does look like that. I probably would have eventually made the same observation.

 

[osuallen]

The upside to the 2022 pattern is that if you wanted to do custom colors with 1 really bold color that you wanted, but just didn't want it to be like half the back, this year accomplishes that. Always before, the A, B, and C colors each had some part of the coach that they occupied significant real estate. On this pattern, the B color has a relatively small footprint, so you could get away with having a real standout color without being completely in your face with it.

We are huge Oklahoma State alumni/fans and we love our orange, but not enough to actually have it be all across the back or side to where our coach would have next to zero re-sale potential. However .............

 

[Just George]

@osuallen What program are you using to created the alternate paint graphics?

 

[osuallen]

@Someday Came: I used MS Paint. It is not automatic and a little tedious, but the results work well for this. A few days ago, I read (I think that it was on another forum) that Newmar has a paint chart that the dealers get that has all the colors for the model year and you can work from that to "color match" for this type of effort. I do not know if it is true or not, but it would make sense.

I wonder if someone can answer if you go for the custom colors special are you limited to a) Newmar current year colors; b) Newmar recent colors; or c) pretty much any?

 

[redbaron]

Any newmar color can be used

 

[Jabber Jaw]

Any color, as long as it is in the "Newmar Palate" can be used for special paint.
For example, my 2020 Canyon Star, the Gold was a Mountain Aire color. the Maroon a Ventana color, the Gray & Black were Canyon Star colors!
A word of warning....."The COLOR shown on the COMPUTER RENDERING from NEWMAR, is NOT A MATCH TO THE REAL COLOR! Go find a coach with the particular color on it, that you are considering!

 

[Jabber Jaw]

And like ARD said..........these 2022 selections are AWFUL!
But, maybe with the "right" color selections for "special" paint, they can be made to look sharp!

 

[Just George]

@osuallen Thanks for the response. The "standard" paint options for the 22 Dutch Star are a no go for me also. I've also been using MS paint. Like @Jabber Jaw says the color on the monitor is not a great match to the actual coach. I've taken a couple shots at putting the 21 Dutch Star Norfolk colors on the 22 Dutch Star graphic. I've not been able to get the colors to match very well to a photo I have of a 21. I think part of the issue is MS paint is not able to reproduce the visual of metallic paint, or I just don't know how to do it. MS paint does allow you to have some perspective of the basic color combination. The best I can tell Newmar only provides a rendering of your custom color choices fairly late in the order process. Would sure be nice if they would provide a tool to their dealers so we could home in on the color combination.

 

[osuallen]

@osuallen Thanks for the response. The "standard" paint options for the 22 Dutch Star are a no go for me also. I've also been using MS paint. Like @Jabber Jaw says the color on the monitor is not a great match to the actual coach. I've taken a couple shots at putting the 21 Dutch Star Norfolk colors on the 22 Dutch Star graphic. I've not been able to get the colors to match very well to a photo I have of a 21. I think part of the issue is MS paint is not able to reproduce the visual of metallic paint, or I just don't know how to do it. MS paint does allow you to have some perspective of the basic color combination. The best I can tell Newmar only provides a rendering of your custom color choices fairly late in the order process. Would sure be nice if they would provide a tool to their dealers so we could home in on the color combination.

Yeah - MS Paint leaves a lot to be desired. Also the colors will change from monitor to monitor unless you have the really high dollar graphics monitors that are color adjusted to represent the actual color. Even then the metallic colors are a challenge to be correctly represented. I think about the best you can do, even with Newmars paint sheet is to get a general idea of the combination.

 

[MapNerd]

I am actually surprised Newmar doesn’t have a paint configurator app. I always figured there was some program you all were using to do this. To hear that ya’ll are using MS Paint is bananas to me.

 

[Neal]

I am actually surprised Newmar doesn’t have a paint configurator app. I always figured there was some program you all were using to do this. To hear that ya’ll are using MS Paint is bananas to me.

I agree, this can be done on the web as some do these days. There would still be caution that what's on your display may (and will not) be what the actual paint color looks like. Heck, take it to the next step, submit the color combination, pay a fee and have a plate sent with the color samples done together. This could be a nice business for someone that wanted to do it, i.e. 3rd party.

 

[redbaron]

I use Adobe illustrator, the same as newmar