![]() ![]() To do this Don has invested heavily in a system where he analyse the original paint and has all of the basic mixing colors in house which allows him to make changes quickly. What might look right in the sunshine, could look absolutely wrong under the lights of a big show hall. It also takes a good eye for color and an understanding of how different lights effect the color. Often it takes ten or more changes before the paint is acceptable. This requires a long process of alalyzing the original colors, mixing paint and painting many sample before the final "code" is established. I had dinner with him last week and he say that he has converted 40 over to the new paint to date. He has about 60 colors that he can recreate.īecause lacquer based paints are not readily available in the US anymore, and are illegal to spray in many parts of teh country he has set out to change all of his codes to modern paint. It is my understanding that this is the only copy he has. His "paint codes" reside in a little book that he keeps in his shirt pocket. He paints were originally blended by eye, in the days before computer and electronic paint analyzers, in what we called lacquer in the US. He mostly likes ones with the tank badges in place so he can look at the paint below which hasn't been bleached by the sun. Otoh2, if you don't have anything in the colour you want, you find a (relatively modern?) vehicle colour you like and tell Joe Bloggs/John Doe the make, model and year of the vehicle: he then looks up the code and paints your bits.ĭon has over three hundred original tanks he keeps in an unlighted basement. ![]() Otoh, if you mean Joe Bloggs The Sprayer (John Doe in the U.S.), you take him something in the colour you want and he uses his 'chip cards' to find a modern match. Thus, you get someone like me, who owns another bit of tin with original colour, that doesn't match the original colour Nick's been using for ages. The downside with this is the Meriden sprayers don't seem to have been too bothered about spraying exactly the same shade every day. Motorcycles, Great Dunmow, Essex) does it - collected loads of bits of tin with original paint which he then matches. ![]() How does a person match modern colours/systems with what came with the bikes originally? Which person? If you mean Don, he probably does it the same way the bloke I use in GB (Nick at F.D. ![]()
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