It’s lighter, I have a few of these light tan mags.

ral8031

 

I think he means on the receivers and hand guard.

To OP:

A very trust worthy birdie once told me they have their own special sauce/dye that they add to the anodizing bath. Most say its RAL8000. I am skeptical. But also realize every anodizing batch and every item will color a little differently.

 

I have seen German RAL8000 metal Hk parts vary from what I would call a very golden brown to a greenish black - even to almost black, for the same part within the same batch (at least what came in a 10 pack) - even more variance alloy to alloy to poly.

FN sort of pioneered the non-match look when it realized that it is impossible to accomplish and the SCAR is purposely made to not match. Part of its charm.

anodizing varies greatly - from Geissle:

"In these pictures below you will also notice that some of the receiver sets have wildly different shades of colored anodizing, and they look wildly different depending on the light source! Why would we even consider selling parts like this? The answer is there is absolutely nothing we can do to make colored anodizing consistent."

"...anodize grows an approximately 0.003” layer of hard aluminum oxide (the same material grinding wheels are made from) on the aluminum part. This layer is grown on the part surface by soaking in a chemical bath while being electrically charged. Next the part is dipped into a special dye bath and the semi porous aluminum oxide layer drinks up the dye to take on its color. Then a hot water solution will seal the dye into the aluminum oxide layer. The resultant color is dependent upon the concentration of chemicals in the various baths, dye concentration, dye mix chemistry, aluminum oxide layer thickness, starting smoothness of the part, phase of the moon, how many slices of pork roll the technicians had in their breakfast sandwich and my favorite: unknown environmental factors.

Because of this the color on our rails, receivers and other aluminum parts can and will vary from one part to the next, even within the same batch. "

https://geissele.com/support/#anodize-shade-variations-and-finish-methods

 

Again, the furniture and mags are a light sand color. They are NOT ral8000 nor are the 7008. They are RAL8031.

the receivers could very well be RAL8000. As @ctyatty has pointed out the color variance between anodizing batches can be between an Almost light OD to a dark burnt bronze shade. So because of the threshold you can throw a dart at a color wheel in that spectrum and move from there.

 

Edited based on Sextus' reply about sand beige and my research into Bundeswehr camouflage colors.

 

That color is called “sand.”

 

Anyone else's eyes getting an almost pinkish, calamine lotion hue off of that "sand" mag/grip/stock?

 

I think that was my impression when i first saw them announce those colors change, but in this picture, they look less pink-ish. Maybe just the shade of the ambient color.

 

Depends which monitor or device I’m looking at them with.

 

My god they need to give H-key a rest, what a terrible idea

 

the ghost of MRS
Proprietary so they can sell a bunch of totally overpriced accessories

 

I just want that stock. Anyone know where to source one? I imagine it's unobtanium.