[Ronan]

Originally Posted by Bonjour43ma

the color changes depending on the light and the angle you're looking at it from - see my photos below: same room, same camera settings, same everything except for where I shot them from, and you can see the color of the metal upper is different in the two shots.





I am confident that my white balance was pretty spot-on, and the colors look exactly as I saw them in person when the shots were taken.

I much prefer the color in the first pic but unfortunately you will see the color difference in real life, under different lighting conditions / viewing angle.

Does anyone know if the real SCAR's upper is like this too?

Colors are off because you did not compensate for your flash. Hence why it looks lighter than it actually is. It's hard to properly compensate because TAN/FDE are VERY light sensitive. Plastic and metal also reflects light differently into your camera.