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wouldn't give a shite to be honest as long as its all the same colour and better than it was. like you say it will be used, it's a tool not a museum piece.

best thing, if it's not perfect then touch-ups are so much easier.

ya catch ma drift?

i would have said gloss black, with a 300mm brush so it goes over everything, even the chucks on drills.......

Green is best

Metal = green it's a copper thing 

Matt wrote:

muddle wrote:

i would have said gloss black

Going with satin finish. Never been a fan of gloss finishes, personally.

with a 300mm brush so it goes over everything, even the chucks on drills.......

That deserves nothing more than a good slap.

Bio Hazard wrote:

Green is best

Brunswick Green is on the list. Just got to decide what that'll be used for though. Woodwork kit is going to be a dark maroon or burgundy type colour, so once woodwork and metalwork related kit are spoken for, what's left? Suppose I could always do the Amanco in good old fashioned Brunswick Green, instead of that poxy Carnation Red the yanks insisted on using. That'd be a good possibility. Use green for any engines.

Light, mid or dark Brunswick green?

chillitt wrote:

Light, mid or dark Brunswick green?

Mid seems to have been the general choice of the English engine manufacturers who used it, from what I've read, but I'm slightly more inclined towards dark, personally.

3 coats of top coat. You can prime it as much as you like. Oooer...

Just thought of one thing. Working on the assumption of going with the green for engine and compressor equipment, (colour is unimportant to the question, but thinking about it brought this point to mind), would an airbrush be suitable for spraying areas of some things, to a reasonable level, or any they only any good for fine lines and the like? Been thinking that it would be a bugger to paint the fins of a cylinder head with a brush without making it look a complete dog, for example, yet don't want to go down the route of a full blown spray setup just due to the fact that it's a messy process, and I haven't got room to create a booth or blanked off area for spraying.

muddle wrote:

just paint it. surely if you spray part and brush part the 2 finishes would be completely different and look odd? assuming its on the same component

Don't worry, Matt will talk and talk and talk about the ins and outs of the correct way of doing things but won't actually do any of them.

Bushwhacker wrote:

muddle wrote:

just paint it. surely if you spray part and brush part the 2 finishes would be completely different and look odd? assuming its on the same component

Don't worry, Matt will talk and talk and talk about the ins and outs of the correct way of doing things but won't actually do any of them.

ha ha fair one. better to talk about stuff and have an active forum than a dead one. could just dip stuff in the paint can......

BigBobE wrote:

have you finished that hole of yours yet matt???

Nope. There's pretty much sod all left to do to finish it off, if I ever have the inclination.

That's different though. It's not that I wouldn't theoretically like to finish it off and get a workshop built in there. It's just that there's naff all point doing it here.