First TL build need paint advice please

[Andrew Maizels]

Thanks Sonic
Where is it that they do colour matching and can they do rattle cans?

[Sonic Mountain]

Thanks Sonic
Where is it that they do colour matching and can they do rattle cans?

Depends on where you are. There are paint places everywhere, you just need one that does automotive lacquer. As Dedman says the local panel supply place is a good start.

My reservation with SCA is that the people on the floor, in my experience, don't really have the best handle on the products they are selling. It might vary from outlet to outlet, but here they are useless. Following a paint code recipe is one thing, experience with mixing to the point where you can colour match is a different ball game. PMS is also more for ink printing, so the mix is defined by CMYK. Paint mixing works differently as there are different components to the paint (pigment/suspension medium/solvents/hardener) whereas ink is generally solvent and pigment.

Your best bet is to take a chip sample (or your pms book) somewhere to get the colour you want matched.

Otherwise, the SCA patch up rattle can inventory is pretty big. You might find something close enough in there.

Out of interest what PMS colour do you want? Can you give us the code?

[Andrew Maizels]

The PMS number is 320.
This particular colour (in printing) is made up from 8 parts process blue and 8 parts pantone green
Thanks everyone by the way who is contributing to the conversation
As I said the frustrating part at the moment is not being able to go to paint or panel shops to show the colour swatch for matching
Even though I have a heap of prep ahead of me it will be frustrating to not be able to attack the paint process ASAP once I receive the kit next week