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Fleet Color called today and let me know that the interior was painted on the project car. They wanted me to stop by and let them know if they correctly colormatched the interior to the painted trunklid I provided to them. They told me they couldn't use the pure green tone of DuPont paint I provided them because it was a transparent tone.
They showed me what was done...It was close, but the shade of BRG they painted the car with had too much yellow in it, making the BRG have an unwanted olive tone. If it ever got dusty, it'd look like olive drab. I asked if they used a plain, single green tone like I originally suggested, but they hadn't. It DID look mighty nice, very vintage, and very "rich" (depth, simple sophistication)--it just had an olive tone to it that I really wanted to get away from.
We futzed around with color mixing to try to get the olive out. They mixed in some blue-green toner, we made several adjustments, we'd put a dab on the green trunklid I provided and always it'd look too olive in comparison. I told them to remove as much yellow from the mix as possible to get it to have a purer green tone, or add blue to cancel out the yellow.
It started to become frustrating, until a helper brought out a separate can of green toner and I immediately spotted the plain toner for their chosen brand as being the right color as it was--unmixed (different brand, but the same color I wanted). They put a little dab of this pure color on the trunklid, and the dab disappeared against the background. PERFECT MATCH.
They spent HOURS trying to mix the right color, and couldn't do it. I told them to use a plain unmixed toner, but apparently they didn't hear me the first time around. It's VERY hard to mix paint to look like a master tint. :lol:
Sometimes the simplest route is the way to go. They're going to paint another panel with this single, unmixed color, and we'll give it another go. If it turns out as expected, we'll finally be ready to shoot the whole car.
They showed me what was done...It was close, but the shade of BRG they painted the car with had too much yellow in it, making the BRG have an unwanted olive tone. If it ever got dusty, it'd look like olive drab. I asked if they used a plain, single green tone like I originally suggested, but they hadn't. It DID look mighty nice, very vintage, and very "rich" (depth, simple sophistication)--it just had an olive tone to it that I really wanted to get away from.
We futzed around with color mixing to try to get the olive out. They mixed in some blue-green toner, we made several adjustments, we'd put a dab on the green trunklid I provided and always it'd look too olive in comparison. I told them to remove as much yellow from the mix as possible to get it to have a purer green tone, or add blue to cancel out the yellow.
It started to become frustrating, until a helper brought out a separate can of green toner and I immediately spotted the plain toner for their chosen brand as being the right color as it was--unmixed (different brand, but the same color I wanted). They put a little dab of this pure color on the trunklid, and the dab disappeared against the background. PERFECT MATCH.
They spent HOURS trying to mix the right color, and couldn't do it. I told them to use a plain unmixed toner, but apparently they didn't hear me the first time around. It's VERY hard to mix paint to look like a master tint. :lol:
Sometimes the simplest route is the way to go. They're going to paint another panel with this single, unmixed color, and we'll give it another go. If it turns out as expected, we'll finally be ready to shoot the whole car.
