Spectra FX Emerald Blue and a good paintshop recomenation

[leylandracer]

First of all i hope you lads don’t mind me posting this on the TVR forum. OK, my dilemma is that i will be treating my Marcos LM500 to a full respray in the not to distant future, The current standard Marcos Blue flip green isn’t available, according to Marcos Heritage the paint supplier ceased trading a long time ago and there’s no records available of the paint formula now. Looking at the fantastic TVR colours the Spectra FX Emerald blue seems to come fairly close to the Marcos Colour?(Maybe it looks better then the original colour) Is this a expensive paint? something i have noticed is that its different on one car to the next? maybe its just the light playing tricks with the cameras.
Can anyone recommend a good paint shop in the Yorkshire area? saying that i have been in touch with SP Automotive, a fair distance from York but seeing some of there work at Tatton park a few years ago i was impressed.
Any tips or advice appreciated re: Paint shops, cost, colours etc
A couple of pics below of a Spectra FX Blue Tuscan & my Marcos LM500

Thanks
Steve

Edited by leylandracer on Wednesday 9th January 21:07

[RedSpike66]

Without a shadow of a doubt I can highly recommend Chris Gregory (http://www.autorefinishing.co.uk). He is simply excellent. He does all sorts of exotica, and was picked as one of Alfa's body shops to respray all the fauly Alfa 8C paint issues iirc.

Give him a call. He's done both of my TVRs and has always done a brilliant job. Sam my old T350 fully resprayes in Alfa 8C Red the other week. Stunning.

Lovely car your Marcos - would look amazing in a cascade indigo flip - expensive tho.

Edited by RedSpike66 on Wednesday 9th January 21:47

[S6 Devil]

The Tuscan pictured is mine and was painted by Ryan at SP Automotive. It is not an expensive paint. It comes in a flake form which is mixed in the clearcoat.

The differing effects depend on the basecoat used and the angle the car is viewed at. I used a black basecoat which was recommended by Alsa corp (the paint/flake manufaturer).

There are two different flakes, small and large. I went for the small.

Ryan has all the details of quantities of flake to clearcoat used but PM me if you want them or with any other questions. Happy to help.

Mike

Edited by S6 Devil on Wednesday 9th January 23:04

[S6 Devil]

Might be worth having a read of this post:
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

A few more pics of my Tuscan;

Edited by S6 Devil on Thursday 10th January 19:01

[leylandracer]

Another option which looks close (in pictures) is Halcyon Atlantis, Can anyone confirm that this does flip from Blue to green/Turquoise, as anyone got some good pictures which shows the true colour(s) If its anything like the colour on the LM its dificult to get a pic to show the colour change.
This pic of the LM shows it a much darker Blue the 2nd pic showing its other side.

[alex_gray255]

Lovely looking car!

Can also highly recommend Brendan Allan @ Raceproved Body shop in Sheffield.

Done a great job on my copper cascade Sagaris + Don's Sagaris.

[Laser Sag]

S6Devil do like your Tuscan in that colour, reminds of the Swordfish colour but with much needed depth

[ShiDevil]

Love the way it turns to green, you have to look twice to check its the same car. That must look a sight on a sunny driving day

[Don1]

Yorkshire area? Look no further than Brendan Allen at Raceproved bodyshop. He's Sheffield based, and his quality is wonderful - including finding very individual paint.

Like this.

[alex_gray255]

Don1 said:

Yorkshire area? Look no further than Brendan Allen at Raceproved bodyshop. He's Sheffield based, and his quality is wonderful - including finding very individual paint.

Like this.

^ yup. What he said

+1

[jamieduff1981]

Don1 said:

Yorkshire area? Look no further than Brendan Allen at Raceproved bodyshop. He's Sheffield based, and his quality is wonderful - including finding very individual paint.

Like this.

I'm usually a boring fart when it comes to paint but that is stunning!

[Don1]

jamieduff1981 said:

I'm usually a boring fart when it comes to paint but that is stunning!

Cheers! As if a car like that needs more attention...

alex_gray255 said:

^ yup. What he said

+1

And typically only now do I scroll down and see the rest of the replies!

[RedSpike66]

Don1 said:

Yorkshire area? Look no further than Brendan Allen at Raceproved bodyshop. He's Sheffield based, and his quality is wonderful - including finding very individual paint.

Like this.

Show Off !!
I deliberately resisted posting a pick of my car, as, for once, Alex did too !!

[Don1]

Just showing the quality of workmanship....

[alex_gray255]

RedSpike66 said:

Show Off !!
I deliberately resisted posting a pick of my car, as, for once, Alex did too !!

Heh.

[Whitenoise1]

I have got a Halcyon Atlantis Pearl Tamora. It does indeed flip from Blue to a turquoise type colour. It's very hard to capture it on photos but it looks more subtle than the Tuscan shown above.

[NCE 61]

My previous Tuscan was Helcyon Atlantis:-





As already said not easy to see the coulor change in photos.

Edited by NCE 61 on Friday 11th January 12:43

[jamieduff1981]

The Atlantis does look a better match to the Marcos colour IMO, if trying to keep it looking roughly the same was the goal.

[leylandracer]

Thanks for the pics and the comments, i took the boot lid over to Chris Gregory (http://www.autorefinishing.co.uk)Today (Who had a nice Sagaris in), The Hacyon Atlantis Blue is spot on:-) i wonder who pinched the colour off who, Marcos-TVR :-)
The colour looks magic on the Tuscan.......
Maybe of non TVR interest......A pic of the engine.

[Don1]

/\ Very nice. Glad that you have the colour down as well!