British racing green with silver (2018)

Bernhard said:

How do you get the “old style” flakes through a spray gun without blocking it up?

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My expertise with paint is limited to the process of dialing the phone to ask an expert if he can schedule the paint work that I need, but apparently it's known to the people who are doing it successfully. Whether they are using the original process or adapting a more modern one, I have no idea.

Blewdy Yaink said:

My expertise with paint is limited to the process of dialing the phone to ask an expert if he can schedule the paint work that I need, but apparently it's known to the people who are doing it successfully. Whether they are using the original process or adapting a more modern one, I have no idea.

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I dropped a wrench on my Norton's tank when it was only a year old, taking a chip out of the factory paint. I used that event as an opportunity to learn a new skill - spray painting. Had the tank and side covers sand blasted at the local monument maker's shop and went to the auto paint store for some DuPont lacquer. A Craftsman air compressor and a small Binks spray gun and I was in business. Since then I've painted my Norton a couple times and numerous friends and family's machines, and a couple cars and trucks. It ain't rocket science, but does take some... uh.. practice.

I've always said that if you give me the right tools and reference material I can do anything.

Ken's bike is very similar to below

BRG is a nonmetalic solid color
This is a dupont acrylic enamel fleet color from Fruhoff trucks.
Same color same bike in different lights
Color was scanned an duplicated 20 years later (3 years ago?) For my combats tank

painted in 1995 pix 2001

Same bike same tank 2018

O Lord, MY GOD, that looks cold!I

texasSlick said:

O Lord, MY GOD, that looks cold!I

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pix was last winter but

2 days ago 5f
yestarday 11f
today a balmy 17f
wood stove and waste oil heater full blast and up to 62f now in office

maylar said:

I dropped a wrench on my Norton's tank when it was only a year old, taking a chip out of the factory paint. I used that event as an opportunity to learn a new skill - spray painting. Had the tank and side covers sand blasted at the local monument maker's shop and went to the auto paint store for some DuPont lacquer. A Craftsman air compressor and a small Binks spray gun and I was in business. Since then I've painted my Norton a couple times and numerous friends and family's machines, and a couple cars and trucks. It ain't rocket science, but does take some... uh.. practice.

I've always said that if you give me the right tools and reference material I can do anything.

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maylar said:

I dropped a wrench on my Norton's tank when it was only a year old, taking a chip out of the factory paint. I used that event as an opportunity to learn a new skill - spray painting. Had the tank and side covers sand blasted at the local monument maker's shop and went to the auto paint store for some DuPont lacquer. A Craftsman air compressor and a small Binks spray gun and I was in business. Since then I've painted my Norton a couple times and numerous friends and family's machines, and a couple cars and trucks. It ain't rocket science, but does take some... uh.. practice.

I've always said that if you give me the right tools and reference material I can do anything.

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Beautiful job. I envy your painting skills.

This is an old thread, but here is a photo of the BRG tank I just sprayed for my Interback project. As has been discussed there are many shades called British Racing Green. My favorite is from a 1968 MGB called Dark British Racing Green. This is a British Leyland code of GN.29 and a PPG Concept (single stage) code of 46446. PPG has no base/clear color code for this, but the jobber had a formula for Valspar (HOK) base/clear.

This hasn't been cut and buffed yet.