Flat 6

Flat 6

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Hey all,

So I've finished welding my footwells and have turned my attention to cosmetics. My engine bay is tatty and the whole body needs a repaint.

The body is currently Marine Blue I think, with cream roof and door tops. Are there particular paint codes for these colours?

I spent most of the weekend cleaning up my engine bay (front wings already off). The engine still has plenty of paint visible - it is a very light blue. Is this a Landie engine colour? If so, again, is there a code?

Cheers,

Al.
 
They are all different colours depending on the manufacturer. Even two cans bought from a vehicle paint shop a week apart can be slightly out from each other due to the cheap or poorly maintained machines that deliver the pigment to the medium. Its almost impossible to be accurate enough on such small volumes.
Its pretty much hit and miss I'm afraid. Some specialists have cropped up over the years that spend much more effort matching the original Land Rover colours but of course you pay more for that level of accuracy. If you just want something close as most of us do try any one of the suppliers that advertise them. The colours also changed slightly depending on year of manufacture and of course Land Rover would supply custom colours to companies as long as they wanted enough vehicles. Once chosen you then have to decide what type of paint and will it react with the paint already on your Landy. Then its application method.
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Bobsticle said:
They are all different colours depending on the manufacturer. Even two cans bought from a vehicle paint shop a week apart can be slightly out from each other due to the cheap or poorly maintained machines that deliver the pigment to the medium. Its almost impossible to be accurate enough on such small volumes.
Its pretty much hit and miss I'm afraid. Some specialists have cropped up over the years that spend much more effort matching the original Land Rover colours but of course you pay more for that level of accuracy. If you just want something close as most of us do try any one of the suppliers that advertise them. The colours also changed slightly depending on year of manufacture and of course Land Rover would supply custom colours to companies as long as they wanted enough vehicles. Once chosen you then have to decide what type of paint and will it react with the paint already on your Landy. Then its application method.
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Where is that screen grab from is it the original sales brochure? I recently repainted my my series 3 in Masai red because that was the colour it already was but I did not realise it was a V8 only option. I will have to see if i can find out what it was originally.
 
Rubins4 said:
I didn't say it was cheap, I said it was the right colour :p

Perhaps that's why you're buying two different versions of the same thing :D
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I get half a gallon of Wilkos venice pomp gloss and box it a pint of county cream just like the Paintman. :D
 
If you want a standard marine blue, Paddocks sell it by the litre, I've used it and find it good value at £15 a tin.
 
Rubins4 said:
I didn't say it was cheap, I said it was the right colour :p

Perhaps that's why you're buying two different versions of the same thing :D
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I used the HMG paint from paddocks when I did both of mine and had no complaints. I got the the white for the 110 roof from a local supplier that was the same price but was the next grade up so a better quality. If you can get hold of the paint code to mix it is would be well worth exploring your local industrial states to see if there is a local paint specialist.

Edit: Posted at the same time as @wireman
 
H M Guest are a good little Manchester paint company. They do just about any specialist paint there is and if there isn’t a specification on the market are willing to invent one for you.

As with most things paints are made to a price but without any understandable standards it’s mostly a suck it and see process to how they perform. I’m enjoying half a gallon of bronze green from some place. I think it’s BS from the south coast somewhere. I like the fact they do a semi gloss. Great for a battered trattor as it hides a multitude of sins rather than highlighting them in a full gloss.
 
I have had stuff from autopaints brighton, good outfit quick service and the colour was spot on, used them for gm cars and mercs

do seem expensive for land rover colours c.f. others or they are at the moment, currently looking at painting our s3 plenty of paint suppliers to choose from
 
Thanks all!

I'll be painting the whole external body and engine bay so match is not so important.

If I am looking for a perfect match, the place I use for paint has a clever machine that reads the colour when held up against a panel. It then tells the guys the closest colour in their database and what to do to it to make it a perfect match. So a Glacier White 911 I had a few years ago had its boot lid (known as an engine cover in 911 circles) painted in a hyundai white with a little black added...

Any thoughts on the light blue engine paint??

Al
 
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