discussion Would you find this useful?

[John]

Before I spend hours, or probably weeks of my time doing it, would you find this option to show alternatives of the same paint?

 

[Mr Bowcat]

Yes, would be handy if the chosen colour was out of stock.

 

[PaulTRose]

Yes but......

Where are you pulling the info from?...... I use modelshade.com for my paint converting but sometimes it's miles off!

 

[John]

Where are you pulling the info from?

I'm having to do it manually, and only use the lines we stock, that's why it will take me quite a while to do, it will also depend what the name of the paint is, if I have RLM02 then it's easy to find, but blue grey or blue gray, not so easy

 

[pjgtech]

Yes, a paint comparison chart / info of any sort is always useful. I use several types of paint, Tamiya, Mr Hobby, Humbrol, AK, etc and whenever I start a new model one of the first things I do is check to see which paints I need, and whether I have them or not.
Cheers

EDIT, just a thought.... might save you some work/time.... but rather than adding the alternatives to each separate paint listing, which I assume would be the time consuming bit, how about just one downloadable spreadsheet or PDF, (maybe a simple link on each paint listing to the same doc) showing all the alternatives, so just the one doc to update, rather than loads of separate listings to update / keep track of?

 

[John]

It’s not a comparison chart as such, it’s the product page that shows other brands of the same colour that are available

 

[langy71]

Excellent idea John, would turn out to be very useful when looking for colours.

 

[John]

how about just one downloadable spreadsheet or PDF,

I want to make it easy for people, if they search for a Tamiya paint and that’s out of stock, on the product page there will be the other alternatives with a add to cart button, just makes it quicker, it would also serve as a, “I didn’t know that brand did that”