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I think the video is great! Best Rob I've seen.

Steel and faded. Surely the right post!?

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Frame of the year from NAHBS/Bespoked?

Looking for some DIY paint inspiration I came across a video from the Squid Bike guys. Anyone have a clue as to what's in the bottle at 7:25?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_pmvT21KEI

Apparently it's something that the last coat of black paint doesn't stick to but what is it though?

this might be the wrong place to ask, but anyone know what ral colour this might be?

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Its a nice variation on the olive drab, isn't it?
Maybe ask http://www.velociao.com/ as they very likely painted it? Also says its keswick green on insta. And thats a land rover colour.

RAL 7009 is close.

Just reading some of this paint stuff from ages ago, seeing @privatepatterson being super nice with advice for people wanting to FIY (Fuck it yourself), when this popped up.

Aren't we all, in a very real sense, just riding turds in this life?

Shit fixie skidders say thread?
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THIS^

RAL 7009 is close and "close" should be what you aim for.
That colour looks different on your screen and mine... the photo has lighting conditions that are altering the colour... the room you're in also contributes to that.

Also... I think this has a non-gloss finish over the colour which will alter the appearance of the colour too.

If you're aiming to emulate it yourself... buy some 7009 in a rattlecan.
If you're going to have it done professionally, ask your refinisher to get 'close'; they'll appreciate the freedom.

The reason I say this is that not all colour products are created equally...

Different brands make different types of paint product which are chemically different for a number of reasons... geography and related legislation; tooling variations; brand recipes etc

Refinishers will have preferred brands and product lines based on their techniques, tooling and sometimes the availability. They will even have favourite colours... not in a childish way of needing to drink from a blue cup but rather in relation to the dynamic properties of the colour and how well it builds, covers and interacts with other colour products.

Whilst adjectives can be really annoying to get across colour nuances, if you show this picture and let your refinisher choose something similar, you'll be enabling them to give you a better quality finish.

cheers guys, I guess also keswick green (the land rover colour is also available) though don't really know if that would make it available as a powdercoat...

https://www.blessthisstuff.com/stuff/vehicles/cars/land-rover-defender-d90-keswick-green/

https://paintman.co.uk/shop/land-rover-keswick-green-lrc799/

impossible to imagine these as essentially the same color, cos as you said screen/lighting/room etc matter

even different ral charts make the same colour look different

making it even more impossible to pick a color

it could also be close to RAL 6033?

EDIT: nope https://www.pinterest.com/pin/262756959492582750/?autologin=true

Sadly, not all automotive colours are available as powder.

is there a good image somewhere with rals and how they look with a powdercoat and clear coat on top? I'm having a hard time getting a sense of what these colours look like

Steve at Aurum finishers also has some BS colours stocked so that is an option too.

Just don't want to spend too much ££ on colour matching as its just for a bike i'm gonna ride around town.

Online you won't find anything completely accurate because the colour on the screen is made with light rather than inks and pigments.

Good quality RAL reference books are made by paint firms and the swatches are actually small pieces of paint product so they are perfect (as perfect as perfect can be)... these are expensive... often in the hundreds of pounds.

The official RAL books are created with ink rather than paint so they're not always spot-on but they're what RAL sells so they're accurate as far as they're concerned.

You can get one from Amazon here - https://amzn.to/2TSa6Tt

Light will fade the colours so store it in a dark, dry place.

There is a greater spread of khaki/drab style colours in the British Standard range than the RAL. From what I understand, these are the colours that are used in official camouflages and such.

You'll also find that some shops will have tube samples of colours but this probably isn't the best reflection because it only shows what each RAL will look like when applied by one shop in certain circumstances and there can still be variables.

The reference books show what the colours are "supposed" to look like when applied well.
This can go wrong if you don't groundcoat properly... if you don't stir the paint properly in the tin... if it's too warm... too cold etc...

In terms of working to a budget, there are some trade-offs... one of those is simply that the colour range isn't available... it's one of the reasons people opt for wet-spray refinishing in order to get the complex colour variants and designs possible.

If you're London based you're welcome to come and visit our workshop and flick through the reference materials here... we've got them all... it's actually too many and an easy way to waste your morning and not realise. Drop me a DM.

Does anybody know where I could get one off vinyl masks cut (preferably by sending an svg file/posting, cos it is unlikely to be local for me)? I can only find online services for batches of 500 stickers and the like. Thanks in advance.

Yeah.
That'll be me.
Send me an email colecoatingsworkshopATgmailDOTcom

That would be fantastic, thanks very much. I'm caught on the hop now because I've still got to make them! I'll get in in touch in a few days.

No worries.
If you can include dimensions as annotations in some format in the file, I won't have to rely on the different softwares and hardwares speaking the same language and I'll be able to size and scale accordingly.
Cheers.

Hi, would you be able to print something that could act as a mask on textile, maybe around A4 size?
Ideally something repetitive like below.
Only i’d like to paint some reflective paint on a jacket.

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Absolutely.
Not a problem.
Same email address.

If it helps, I have a piece of reflective fabric that I’m not using. You can cut up and sew on or whatever.

Sorry missed this, what type is it?
Only thing is itsfir my waterproof and stitching might make it not so...

It was just cheap stuff from eBay I bought to try but haven’t used yet. I’ll dig it out
You could always glue bits on?

Yeah might be worth looking at