Help colour matching paint.

[R1 Indy]

Basically I bought a tub of gelcoat for my fibreglass bonnet in a pre mixed colour or red-orange.

On my iPad this colour looked perfect, but in reality it's a bit too orange.

Now one advantage of gelcoat is you can add colour pigments to mix the colour before adding the harder, and stays the same colour when dries.

But am a bit confused which colour I need to add .

So I've got a red'y orange colour , and I want it to be much redder.

Do I add red or brown?

Cheers.

[pimpin gimp]

You need to take away some yellow, a small syringe will help.

But brown will probably be better than red.

[SV8Predator]

R1 Indy said:

On my iPad this colour looked perfect, but in reality it's a bit too orange.

Did you seriously write that?

What were you expecting?

Your gel-coat can be matched, but it will take an expert who has done this many times before, and will have an exhaustive supply of pigments, and will know exactly how to achieve the desired result.

And even then, it will be 'trial & error' which will hopefully achieve the desired result.

Matching paint is extremely difficult, very few rely on matching by eye any more. But gel-coat is even more difficult. You need to find a very skilled person to assist you.

[R1 Indy]

Btw I'm not worried about it being a perfect match. As long as its roughly the same colour I will be happy.

[SV8Predator]

R1 Indy said:

Btw I'm not worried about it being a perfect match. As long as its roughly the same colour I will be happy.

Why are you wasting all our time then?

[R1 Indy]

Because its not currently roughly the right colour.

I would like to know which colour to add to a red/orange colour to get a much brighter red?