Thread: Touch up paint

The 21 year old Alpine White paint on my 93 RRC is so close to the paint-code mixed up stuff that I can't tell.
Where the four different efforts at paint matching by three different spray painters on my other rangie stick out like dogs balls.

I'll take the factory paint code every time thanks.

Originally Posted by Dougal

The 21 year old Alpine White paint on my 93 RRC is so close to the paint-code mixed up stuff that I can't tell.
Where the four different efforts at paint matching by three different spray painters on my other rangie stick out like dogs balls.

I'll take the factory paint code every time thanks.

What colour was the Rangie ?? White is the best, followed closely by straight black. If the Rangie has perls/metalics in it ... especially if it's a nice deep colour, it's bloody difficult to match.

Having said that, the local auto-paints store I use are bloody good ( J&D Auto paints Ballarat ).

seeya,
Shane L.

Originally Posted by DoubleChevron

What colour was the Rangie ?? White is the best, followed closely by straight black. If the Rangie has perls/metalics in it ... especially if it's a nice deep colour, it's bloody difficult to match.

Having said that, the local auto-paints store I use are bloody good ( J&D Auto paints Ballarat ).

seeya,
Shane L.

Both off-white. The 85 is creamier (arctic white) and that's the one with the most awful colour matching attempts.
The 93 is closer to plain white (alpine white) and whoever painted the bonnet didn't get the colour right either.

Originally Posted by Dougal

Both off-white. The 85 is creamier (arctic white) and that's the one with the most awful colour matching attempts.
The 93 is closer to plain white (alpine white) and whoever painted the bonnet didn't get the colour right either.

As dumb as it sounds, I'm pretty sure an "off white" is not an easy paint to match.... there is so many slightly different shades of it. Darker colours are the easiest.

It's unlikely that a lot of the older cars even wear there original colours. Especially where they were originally painted with an acrylic laquer (the mixing instructions for modern paints wont exist). At respray time they would have either matched it (near enough is good enough if the whole things to be painted), or mixed it by paint code .... which may not necessarily be the same colour as original. I recently sanded down one of the rear guards off one of my cars and found five slightly different shades of the same colour Who would even know what the original colour actually was, 'cos there all similar.

The range rover here has 4 shades of red on it if you look close, but it still looks quite good from 10paces. I'll repray it someday.... Why would you want a 4wd to look too good though? Then you'd be scared to drive it down tracks with branches scratching the sides.

seeya,
Shane L.