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ST1100:

--- Quote from: Jimbo550 on November 19, 2012, 01:10:41 PM ---I've used a spray can and had a very good match.
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I guess you were lucky there...

AFAIK is Honda using 3-layer candy coats:

- primer/ground/base: silver, light gray
- main coat: tinted, half transparent metallic
- lacquer/finish: again tinted, transparent finish

crucial are degree/shade of tinting, as well as size, colour, proper mix (silver & golden) and finally the density/percentage of the metallic flakes...

Nearly impossible to find a body shop willing/able to try mixing the ingredients for the ST1100 color coats... and if one tried the result looked weird at the end, especially in brought daylight (like hibiscus/marshmallow candy...  ??? )
So I always ended up buying a new, factory colored fairing part...

Not to imagine finding the proper mixtures for a vintage motorcycle...

veefour:

--- Quote from: tom400f on November 18, 2012, 07:25:34 PM ---It shows up on rsbikepaint if you select 1975 as the year:
http://www.rsbikepaint.com/en-gb/colours.php#makeid=59&modelid=269

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Isn't this forum just great, thanks friend.  :)

toucheturtle:
I used RS Paints to buy the flake sunrise orange for my bike. The finished result was very good but my friend who painted the tank and side panels said he could have mixed the paint if I'd given him the paint code

Bryanj:
But thats the whole point----THERE ARE NO PAINT CODES

tom400f:
These days you take your car into the body shop, they open the door and on the pillar there is a sticker with the colour code. Bloke says hold on a minute and mixes it there and then. Japanese bikes of the 70s - not so much: http://www.motorcycleproject.com/motorcycle/text/notes1.html

Here is a list but the codes don't mean anything to anyone I'm sure:
http://www.vsource.org/VFR-RVF_files/BHondaPaintCodes.htm

also from the above site: http://www.motorcycleproject.com/motorcycle/text/lubrtech.html

Hence rsbikepaint (no affiliation blah blah) have a business.

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