The paint arrived. I had the azzurro california metallic blue (ferrari-color-code 524 - offerded for the 2009 Ferrari California) mixed by a german company I found on the internet. I just couldnīt wait to lay it onto the model.
First I wanted to see how the color would look like. Therefore I painted a plastic strip and added a layer of TS-13 afterwards.
That looked good to me. What the pictures doesnīt show is that the blue is changing in its depth and darkness depending on how much bright light you view it in.
The color looks pretty much right to me. The blue is darker that what I used before. The pictures show a little too greyish shade of the color. Nevertheless it is much bluer than it appears on the taken fotographs. It comes very close to what the car was actually painted with in 1962:
This morning I masked the white areas and then added 3 mist coats of the color. It worked very well. The custom mixed paint was great to work with.
And then ... I removed the masking. Almost no bleed through and almost no sharp edges where the blue meets the white.
I let the paint gas out over night and will add two or three layers of clear before starting the laborious task of sanding with 2000 grid paper and rubbing the surface with Tamiya finishing compounds.
Cheers
Robert