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Originally Posted by Darkside
How can you tell with such a crappy picture ?
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Good point !
Excuses are like A$$'oles... So here I go...:
1) I normally use a film camera, but I don't have a scanner.
2) The misses digital is pretty slow, and it was late in the afternoon/evening.
I'll take another at high noon if anyone wants to see it.
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Originally Posted by REI
Wow that white is almost exactly the color I want to paint an Elise. Do you happen to have the paint codes/brand the color that you used for the pearl white paint???
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It is all Debeers (The Bear)...
De Base white is "MM 500 White" (This is stark white without any ochres or other grams of this-n-that, just pure "as the drivin snow" white)
Pearl is "Satin White Pearl Nissin QX3" (The lightest pearl I could find that looked about right)
Clear is "1-204 MS clearcoat" (Claimed to be a UV inhibitor so I have given the c/f that was looking chalky a once over after a light color sanding)
After primer, I used 2 or 3 white, 2 pearl, 3 clear... color sand the bugs out, then Polish, and wax.
The paints are what debeers recommended, and they (Debeers) were fairly helpful, so I can only say good things about them and their service.
I was going to go with Alsa, but the guy I was dealing with had a medical issue and everything went into standstill, and they were more geared towards professionals than knuckleheads - which also factored in...
The pearl is difficult because the color is influenced by the pearl coat thickness (I used 2 coats). My original plan was white with white metal flake (
paint with pearl white sparkle pearl but it is more like a metal flake) - but I couldn't find it at the time
- of course it was in the bag hanging off the study door all along.
But white is pretty forgiving compared to many other colors.
If you are doing this your self then you would save time by avoiding the pearl, and using a metal flake. And there are some other tips too...
The doors are a pain from all aspects, and the sills also require a lot of time - but less swearing than the doors.