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CB500/4 K0 brown touch up paint
Menno:
Well, touching up candy is always very difficult. Even when I look at your nice candy garnet brown 500 I can see a difference in the sidepanels and the tank.
They were originaly not a set were they?
If the chips are realy tiny I would advise just to leave it like that. Quite often a touch up might look very amateuristic especialy when the paint is not 100% identical.
Call it verdigris. (I used a translator on this word.. Is it correct? I mean aged)
However: this is important.. is the pant chipped off all the way to the bare metal or is the basic layer still there.
If the basecoat is still there I could send you some candy garnet brown in a touch up bottle. You could try it with a very small pencil.
It would be: touching up and immediately whiping off. The trick is to leave just enough pant sticking to match the surrounding paint.
And you would need: fingerspitzengefühl.... (sensitivity just doesn't translate that right)
AshimotoK0:
Quote .. ("I used a translator on this word.. Is it correct? I mean aged") ............... Patina ;)
BTW -- hoping to get my CB500K0 Candy Jet Green Tank and panels off to you this week Menno .. 1000 apologies for the delay .... Ash
SteveD CB500K0:
verdigris = the green colouring on aged copper.
Steve
ST1100:
--- Quote from: Menno on January 04, 2016, 01:13:45 AM ---You could try it with a very small pencil. It would be: touching up and immediately whiping off.
--- End quote ---
When fixing pebble-chips on car hoods (err... zis is a UK forum, so zis is called a bonnet then ;) ), I use toothpicks to just fill and level the the paint layer with a tiny drop (won't work if its down to the metal or already corroding)
Once dry very fine wet-sanding, polish, etc...
BTW: also I'm still due in shipping my K2 tank and side panes... :-\
Got swamped with other issues and still searching for a really rigid carton... don't want to have that thing all banged up...
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