Hi All
I don’t know if this is useful or widely known about but as I am restoring some WW2 radio equipment I needed a paint that matched the original.
Nothing suitable in the standard range nor in the RAL or other standard swatches and of course there is no useful way to match a colour using a computer screen.
While you can get home decoration paint matched by taking a sample into a store this only gets you emulsion or gloss paint!
However I found a company on line that will match a sample paint colour and give you spray cans of paint suitable for metals.
Attached is a photo of the result – the paint was sampled by sending the small box capacitor to the company. I used this as it had been inside the enclosure for 65 years and so hadn’t faded. In the photo the spray paint was applied in the area roughly enclosed by the red line. It’s a very good match I think.
I’m not associated with the company but if you can’t find someone offering the service PM me and I’ll give you the URL of the one I used.
Cheers
James
By: J Boyle - 19th November 2017 at 04:59
To expand on the advice above…
For anyone, anywhere, facing the same problem of not knowing where to get special paint locally, ask members of your local antique/custom automobile fraternity.
Likewise, they can recommend specialists in interior work or tyres (a friend used shaved tractor tyres on his large-wheeled antique aircraft).
Not every locale has antique aircraft experts but old car owners/fans and specialists are everywhere.
By: baz62 - 19th November 2017 at 03:04
Here in Christchurch NZ there’s a great company called Spraystore and they will colour match anything even 2 pack in shiny tins. Just discovered they are now round the corner from the new house I moved into a few months ago.
By: ZRX61 - 18th November 2017 at 20:47
ah, things have improved then, I haven’t been there for a while.
By: jeepman - 18th November 2017 at 20:22
Never had any problem getting paint here in the UK -for restoring military vehicles – from a selection of local auto paint suppliers. Many places will match samples and/or do aerosols as well – at a price
By: ZRX61 - 18th November 2017 at 19:03
Seems to be an issue in the UK that auto paint outlets won’t sell to anyone who walks through the door for some daft reason. This whole “trade card” BS which has never made any sense to me at all. We have 3 here in town (SoCal) who will match the color & put it in rattle cans for anyone who wants it.
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November 17, 2017 at 9:47 pm