So Wolfgang, it sounds like the paint code is not the thing to use for this for archive purposes. People should use that as a starting point, adapt and scan until they get the right measurements from the applied paint on a surface. Ulric/Jensen Museum collects original samples, cut off bits of bodywork, cleans them up and gets them scanned, then archives the spectrograph readings. You are saying there is a lot more than that, which I can completely understand. The depth when you look into the paint, and size of the metallic particles being obvious variables not related to colour. How the paint is sprayed affects how deep the metal particles land in the base coat. I just loved some of the paint on TVRs around 2000, especially reflex paints, mind blowing. I took some car spotters to the Schlumpf museum, they had never seen black paint like 1930s cellulose, it is just something else isn't it, but with just a colour spectrograph I guess it would just simply read as a black.Wolfgang wrote: ↑Thu Apr 08, 2021 3:41 pm Nowadays we're able to create nearly every colour looking like original, there is equipment available to measure the pigmentation, density, brilliance, reflection from cars standing in museums like Sinsheim, Schlumpf in Alsace and also in Zurich and then copy it to the owners car with modern paint and technique.
Are these water based paints as suitable for home use as cellulose would you say?
