Paint Can
| Paint Can | |
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| Basic Information | |
| Released: | Mann-Conomy Update |
| Availability: | Variable (see below) |
| Tradable: | Yes |
| Giftable: | Yes |
| Craftable: | No |
| Available Qualities | |
| “ | See? Red! Oh, wait... that's blood.
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— The Soldier
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The Paint Can is a tool that allows players to change the coloring of most hats and Miscellaneous items. Paint Cans are available in 29 different colors, and can either be purchased from the Mann Co. Store, found via the item drop system, obtained by opening Mann Co. Supply Crates, or acquired through the Trading system.
Two types of Paint Cans exist; single-colored and team-colored. Items painted with single-color paints retain the appearance of one color regardless of the player's team, whereas a team-colored paint will switch between RED and BLU variant colors. Paint can be removed from an item to restore it to its default color by selecting the item in the Backpack and clicking 'Restore'. However, the paint used on the item will not be returned to the player.
Contents
Paintable item previews
The following pages display previews of items painted with Paint Cans. Hover over any image to display the name of the paint that was used.
- Note: Images may not exactly match the examples depicted here, as in-game lighting conditions may vary. For team-colored items, the RED model skin has been used, meaning that the painted item may appear differently when worn on the BLU team (with the exception of team-colored paints, in which both the RED and BLU versions are displayed).
Colors
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| Picture | Name | Color | Availability | Picture | Name | Color | Availability |
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A Color Similar to Slate | HEX #2F4F4F
RGB 47 79 79 |
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Indubitably Green | HEX #729E42
RGB 114 158 66 |
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A Deep Commitment to Purple | HEX #7D4071
RGB 125 64 113 |
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Mann Co. Orange | HEX #CF7336
RGB 207 115 54 |
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A Distinctive Lack of Hue | HEX #141414
RGB 20 20 20 |
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Muskelmannbraun | HEX #A57545
RGB 165 117 69 |
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A Mann's Mint | HEX #BCDDB3
RGB 188 221 179 |
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Noble Hatter's Violet | HEX #51384A
RGB 81 56 74 |
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After Eight | HEX #2D2D24
RGB 45 45 36 |
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Peculiarly Drab Tincture | HEX #C5AF91
RGB 197 175 145 |
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Aged Moustache Grey | HEX #7E7E7E
RGB 126 126 126 |
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Pink as Hell | HEX #FF69B4
RGB 255 105 180 |
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An Extraordinary Abundance of Tinge | HEX #E6E6E6
RGB 230 230 230 |
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Radigan Conagher Brown | HEX #694D3A
RGB 105 77 58 |
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Australium Gold | HEX #E7B53B
RGB 231 181 59 |
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The Bitter Taste of Defeat and Lime | HEX #32CD32
RGB 50 205 50 |
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Color No. 216-190-216 | HEX #D8BED8
RGB 216 190 216 |
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The Color of a Gentlemann's Business Pants | HEX #F0E68C
RGB 240 230 140 |
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Dark Salmon Injustice | HEX #E9967A
RGB 233 150 122 |
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Ye Olde Rustic Colour | HEX #7C6C57
RGB 124 108 87 |
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Drably Olive | HEX #808000
RGB 128 128 0 |
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Zepheniah's Greed | HEX #424F3B
RGB 66 79 59 |
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| Picture | Name | Color | Availability | Picture | Name | Color | Availability |
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An Air of Debonair | HEX #654740
RGB 101 71 64 |
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Team Spirit | HEX #B8383B
RGB 184 56 59 |
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| HEX #28394D
RGB 40 57 77 |
HEX #5885A2
RGB 88 133 162 | ||||||
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Balaclavas Are Forever | HEX #3B1F23
RGB 59 31 35 |
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The Value of Teamwork | HEX #803020
RGB 128 48 32 |
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| HEX #18233D
RGB 24 35 61 |
HEX #256D8D
RGB 37 109 141 | ||||||
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Cream Spirit | HEX #C36C2D
RGB 195 108 45 |
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Waterlogged Lab Coat | HEX #A89A8C
RGB 168 154 140 |
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| HEX #B88035
RGB 184 128 53 |
HEX #839FA3
RGB 131 159 163 | ||||||
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Operator's Overalls | HEX #483838
RGB 72 56 56 |
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| HEX #384248
RGB 56 66 72 | |||||||
Drop
Notes: The availability column shows the standard conditions. Any special, time-limited promotions that may be occurring in the Mann Co. Store are not and should not be included.
Video Demonstration
Update history
September 30, 2010 Patch (Mann-Conomy Update)
- Added A Deep Commitment to Purple, Aged Moustache Grey, Australium Gold, Color No. 216-190-216, Indubitably Green, Mann Co. Orange, Muskelmannbraun, Noble Hatter's Violet, Peculiarly Drab Tincture, Radigan Conagher Brown, Ye Olde Rustic Colour, Zephaniah's Greed, An Extraordinary Abundance of Tinge, and A Distinctive Lack of Hue paint cans.
- [Undocumented] Added message for DirectX 8 users on painted hats that paint will not display correctly on their system.
- Added Remove Paint features.
- Added Team Spirit paint.
- Fixed an issue where team-colored hats were showing up improperly when previewing the Team Spirit paint on them.
- Many hats have had their appearance while painted improved. Paintable hats should now appear less like solid blobs of color and retain more of the character and texture of the hat.
- [Undocumented] Added Pink as Hell, A Color Similar to Slate, Drably Olive, The Bitter Taste of Defeat and Lime, The Color of a Gentlemann's Business Pants and Dark Salmon Injustice paint cans.
- Fixed the new Shogun hats not being grayed out when paint is being used.
April 14, 2011 Patch (Hatless Update)
- Fixed bug where DirectX 8 users could not view painted items.
- The Superfan, Essential Accessories, and Hero's Hachimaki were made paintable.
June 23, 2011 Patch (Über Update)
- Added An Air of Debonair, Balaclavas Are Forever, Cream Spirit, Operators Overalls, The Value of Teamwork, and Waterlogged Labcoat paint cans.
- [Undocumented] Fixed painted items that stay on ragdolls losing their custom color upon their owner's death.
- Fixed a problem with team paints not being displayed properly when playing.
July 1, 2011 [Item schema update]
- Changed spelling of Zephaniah's Greed to Zepheniah's Greed.
- Fixed a display issue with team color paints.
- Fixed a problem with the application of team-colored paints.
- Fixed a bug that caused team color paints to appear to be coming out of the wrong cans for the store icons.
- Fixed paint preview not working for Mann Co. Store items.
- Fixed a bug that would cause some Team Spirit painted hats to show as black-painted in the Steam Community.
- Fixed Mann Co. Store item previews for paints.
- Updated item descriptions to contain the name of the paint used to color them.
- [Undocumented] Added A Mann's Mint and After Eight paint cans.
Bugs
- When using the +quickswitch command to change a user's loadout, painted items are not differentiated from regular items; this means that if a user has multiple painted variants of the same hat, all the variants are ignored (+quickswitch only shows one entry per item to prevent duplicates taking excessive space) and just one entry appears in the +quickswitch panel.
Trivia
- The "216-190-216" paint is a reference to the Template:W representation of the color.
- Muskelmannbraun is the German word for "muscleman brown".
- The Über Update added several Paint Can colors that were sampled from the existing player models. "The Value of Teamwork" was sampled from the cross on the Medic's backpack, "Waterlogged Lab Coat" from the Medic's coat, "Balaclavas Are Forever" from the Spy's mask, "An Air of Debonair" from the Spy's suit, and "Operator's Overalls" from the Engineer's overalls.
- "Team Spirit" and "Cream Spirit" are both based on the coloring of the icons and backgrounds of the Class badges, respectively.
- "Balaclavas Are Forever" is a reference to the Template:W movie Template:W. A Template:W is the type of mask the Spy wears.
External links
- TF2Gallery – Online gallery showing in-game pictures of painted, non-painted, and unusual items
- http://tf2stats.net/paints/ – TF2Stats Listing displaying paint statistics per item.
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