I'm nearing painting my Alice Blue TF21 but have found that getting a good paint match near impossible! Has anyone found a paint manufacturer who can replicate a similar product? The difficulty is that 1960s metallic paint was cellulose with an ultra fine metallic, quite poor quality and difficult to apply. Metallic cellulose paint is no longer available, the later 2k paints are in my opinion so far a little bit heavy on the metallic flake and so give a look of a later period paint meant for 80s onwards style motors and im quite apprehensive to use water based but so far seems to offer the best colour match and smallest flake available. I discovered the painted panels under the doors on my TF to be original paint under the grime, underseal and over spray from its last paint job back in the early 80s so have a perfect sample of original paint that hasn't seen the light of day for 30+ years! The dilemma now is I know what it should be. I really want a period looking paint finish and anything less than very near isn't going to please. I had a colour match in a flat cellulose which would look good on maybe a frog eyed sprite but definitely too dull for my TF. I have seen Internet images of what looks like good replica paint finishes, hopefully someone on here can help me with my quest. Ignorance is bliss and had I not unearthed some original paint, I doubt very much I would see it as such a dilemma! Posted by Hewitt OPC 03/04/2014 13:37:13
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