Need to find a paint color....

[99civichic]

I'm building this truck out of the Revell '99 Lightning model:


I need to know where I can find this color. I thought I had nailed it, but the color I got had no purple in it. Please help!!

[Zurbert82]

hmm.. TS-51 Telefonica Blue possibly?

[pre98zetec]

telefonica blue is pretty dark, maybe mica blue but it doesn't have purple in it.

[primera man]

TS50 Mica blue looks close

[Jaymes]

how about putting down a light purple base coat and layering candy blue over it? Dunno ...I don't know anything about paint :X

[hirofkd]

You can buy the exact match of your desired color at: http://www.paintscratch.com/

[Jay!]

To my eyes, it looks like the Honda color "Electron Blue Pearl."

[99civichic]

It does look kinda like the Honda color....

I knew it was gonna be a hard color to match...but $30/can is a bit steep for me right now!

[ImolaEK]

Drain a can of Mica Blue and another can of Purple and mix them?


but Mica Blue is pretty darn close

[white97ex]

have you tried going to a paint store and getting a little bottle of touch up tube? they are like 5 or 10 bucks..might be able to knock it out with one or two

[99civichic]

I've looked into it, but so far I haven't found any that were Sonic Blue. I think I may have found another brand of nail polish that's really close, I'll get some tomorrow and see how it turns out. I'm getting some project pics together on the 3 Fords I've got going, should have them up in the next week or so. Hopefully I can have the first mist on the Lightning by then.

[willimo]

Screw the paint store. The absolute best place to get paint is from... the dealership. If that's a stock color, go to the Ford place and be all like "Yo I need this nutty blue pearl color like on the Lightning from [year] and I need it now!" and they will look at you like you're retarded because you just drove up in a Honda that certainly isn't a truck, or a Ford, or a Lightning from [year] but it'll be worth it 'cause in your little hand you'll be holding (are you ready for this?) a little itty bitty bottle of...(you're not ready!)

(ok, now you are)...the actual color! Just pour it out (messy!) into a bottle ready for your airbrush and cut it about 1:1 or 1:2 with some lacquer thinner (stinky!) and you're set.

But I do find domestic dealerships to be a lot harder to get paints from - the Dodge dealership I tried to get paint from wanted my VIN and whatnot and I kept telling them, "No, I just want a bottle of the gunmetal you put on your big honkin' trucks, so gimme it!!" but they'd have none of that (even though I'd been in the previous week and the little fella in the parts department that time just tippy-tapped on his computer and wham-o they were fresh out. San mo.) Honda, and Acura, who I get tons of paints from, and Volvo, have been especially nice. "I need a red..." "Firepepper pearl?" "Spot on! Gimme gimme, here's $7.50... yoink!"

Paint is yummy in my tummy.

[willimo]

If it's not a stock color, I'm fresh out. See what info you can source on the truck, and what color they used. With a little digging, luck should find you the PPG paint codes and you cold at least get it custom mixed. Some paints may be.... secret or something but you may be able to get close. That may be fairly costly, and you may not be able to get only 1oz mixed, but I imagine you could bottle it and sell it to chumps like me for $3-4 a pop to help defray the cost. Ebay is the coolestestest!

[99civichic]

willimo, you rock. That was absolutely hilarious.

Yes it's a stock color and Ford was so proud of it even the Focus got a taste of its awesomenessess.

Hey, I can get a 35% discount at our hometown Ford dealership, I got some inside pull Why did I not think of this before??

[Jaymes]

tell us if it works...and how much it costed if you don't mind!