Thread: I hope this is not what it is!!!

G'day All, Well it's not often I comment on anyones paint/painting jobs but that is not DBG LOL, I know from my experience (limited as it is being a Reg/nse not a spray painter) that if you fiddle with the mix of thinners and paint it will be different every time, and I have had to repaint some panels twice in DBG LOL but I've never experienced that before, it looks like a Lime Green, anyway mate good luck with it cheers Dennis

you'll never know until you paint the whole car,,

it might come up a treat,,

in the end I suppose its a "how serious is this resto" kinda thing,,

Post a pic of the DBG!!! I want to do my S2A trailer in it but I cant find a swatch anywhere. Was going to do it in Ardennes Green to match my RRC but I really cant be assed doing a metallic on it!

G'day All, Here is a pic (hopefully) of my S2A 88" GS in DBG

hope that gives you some idea cheers Dennis

I lernt that lesson a decade ago about measuring paint in proportions ie, ratio between the enamel, universal hardener and enamel thinners, as for level of the rebuild im rebuilding the Dingo as a daily driver (espically since i chucked in the job with a work ute a few weeks ago) so its more for my satisfaction than anything.

Im adding a picture with the Deep bronze Green and the mystery colour, as you can see no amount of stiring or getting the ratios wrong will put humpty back together again, i have been looking and ever though the original tin says Deep Bronze Green im thinking the spanner in question mixed Deep Brunswick Green, to much sniffing thier own product me thinks.

Just caps a Bugger of a week with the Dingo, with being shafted i think i wont be even looking at the 80inch for a week. Anthony.

Deep Brunswick Green is still a very dark green, darker than British Racing Green , even possibly darker than Deep Bronze green.


That green looks more like an Apple Green to me.

Originally Posted by vin16660088

Im adding a picture with the Deep bronze Green and the mystery colour, as you can see no amount of stiring or getting the ratios wrong will put humpty back together again, i have been looking and ever though the original tin says Deep Bronze Green im thinking the spanner in question mixed Deep Brunswick Green, to much sniffing thier own product me thinks.

The darker looks more like an olive military colour. I was under the impression Deep Bronze Green was more like British Racing Standard Green and there is quite a few variants on this one too. My fav would be the BRG used by Jaguar on XK140-150 models during the 50's.
Might be worth while mixing 50 or 100ml's of the two you have to see what you can come up with. At least it would be.... unique....! Maybe you could call it FUDG (F****d Up Dingo Green)!!!!!

You can tell very little about colour from Pic's, especially on computer monitors. If you look at posted photos of restoration jobs on this site and the S1 site, in 10 shots of the same car you will see 10 different shades.
Hade a friend that thought Brunswick green and DBG where the same drove around in a S2 known as lime fresh.
Dennis