Vintage looking green/grey paint ideas...
Discussion
Good evening,
I'm in the middle of building this:
It's a concept of a Morgan 3 wheeler commercial, designed by Jon Wells at Morgan for MOG magazine. I've got previous with 3 wheelers having built this before:
That was painted in cellulose Landrover Keswick Green - a colour I love. However Mrs H says that I've already 'done' Keswick green so need another colour. That's where the PH collective come in. I'd quite like to paint it by hand this time in coach enamel for a vintage look, so a colour which either has a RAL code or is easy to find would make my life easier (i.e BMC/Landrover etc). Cellulose spraying is still an option for the right colour if it would work better.
So here goes: I like Green but I'm open to anything else. Vintage style ideally so no metallics. I''m open to satin or matt finishes for something different. The tilt will be canvas so needs to fit in with that. Wheels and exhaust will be satin black.
Colours I've thought about so far..
Landrover Deep Bronze Green (but who paints anything not a Land Rover in that!)
Landrover Light Green (bit too light?)
BSA Bantam Green (think this is same as Ford Ludlow Green)
RAF Blue
NATO Green
Land Rover Bahama Gold - a bit leftfield but I've always had a thing for mustard colour cars.
Olive Green - something like the Little Green Olive colour paint (number 72).
So here we go - all help appreciated!
Phil
I'm in the middle of building this:
It's a concept of a Morgan 3 wheeler commercial, designed by Jon Wells at Morgan for MOG magazine. I've got previous with 3 wheelers having built this before:
That was painted in cellulose Landrover Keswick Green - a colour I love. However Mrs H says that I've already 'done' Keswick green so need another colour. That's where the PH collective come in. I'd quite like to paint it by hand this time in coach enamel for a vintage look, so a colour which either has a RAL code or is easy to find would make my life easier (i.e BMC/Landrover etc). Cellulose spraying is still an option for the right colour if it would work better.
So here goes: I like Green but I'm open to anything else. Vintage style ideally so no metallics. I''m open to satin or matt finishes for something different. The tilt will be canvas so needs to fit in with that. Wheels and exhaust will be satin black.
Colours I've thought about so far..
Landrover Deep Bronze Green (but who paints anything not a Land Rover in that!)
Landrover Light Green (bit too light?)
BSA Bantam Green (think this is same as Ford Ludlow Green)
RAF Blue
NATO Green
Land Rover Bahama Gold - a bit leftfield but I've always had a thing for mustard colour cars.
Olive Green - something like the Little Green Olive colour paint (number 72).
So here we go - all help appreciated!
Phil
Hello,
Some absolutely fantastic ideas - you can always rely on PH!
After the replies I'm more open to other colours - I had considered RAF blue Grey too, but a light blue or maybe even one of the original Citroen 2CV blues might be a good idea. It needs to look good with some kind of vintage signwriting too. Still no love for Bahama Gold?
or Porshe Olive:
.
Niall - good to hear from you too. I have considered bare alloy with patina - Duncan style - but my metal work isn't quite upto scratch! Going for a PG nosecone I think, so i guess that's brass?
Best,
Phil
Some absolutely fantastic ideas - you can always rely on PH!
After the replies I'm more open to other colours - I had considered RAF blue Grey too, but a light blue or maybe even one of the original Citroen 2CV blues might be a good idea. It needs to look good with some kind of vintage signwriting too. Still no love for Bahama Gold?
or Porshe Olive:
.Niall - good to hear from you too. I have considered bare alloy with patina - Duncan style - but my metal work isn't quite upto scratch! Going for a PG nosecone I think, so i guess that's brass?
Best,
Phil
hardcastlephil said:
Niall - good to hear from you too. I have considered bare alloy with patina - Duncan style - but my metal work isn't quite upto scratch! Going for a PG nosecone I think, so i guess that's brass?
Best,
Phil
Brass indeed Phil, they need a little work to get the manufacturing marks out. I stumbled across a little Austin A30 today in what I believe is Balmoral Blue (stock images below). Might suit your requirements as its quite grey/blue and has a nice classic feel to it and would suit signwriting nicely.Best,
Phil
hardcastlephil said:
Hello,
After the replies I'm more open to other colours - I had considered RAF blue Grey too, but a light blue or maybe even one of the original Citroen 2CV blues might be a good idea.
Phil
I wouldn't pick too French a blue for an iconic English marque so avoid the cars shown below.After the replies I'm more open to other colours - I had considered RAF blue Grey too, but a light blue or maybe even one of the original Citroen 2CV blues might be a good idea.
Phil
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleu_de_France_(colo...
Of all the shades in the chart I'd go for something like Ice Blue or Electric Blue.
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