colour matching white water blue on playfield

[ricindahunting]

G'day all,

Anyone colour matched the blue on their white water Mc on the playfield? I dropped a post yesterday about how to set down the mylar but now figure I should sweeten her up with a tiny and I mean tiny, lick of paint before applying the mylar. A brand name and colour would be sweet if any one has matched it before.

Cheers and thanks,

Rich.................................................

[MartyJ]

In my experience its always tough...As every playfield tends to fade and the colours change differently.

I've found if your machine has original plastics - some of the blues on those should be close if not the same (and faded at same rate).

I took mine to the spray paint shop and got them to mix 500ml of the colour.  Some will even do 250ml but charge for matching.

[madness]

Richard,
You need to get Tamiya Acrylic paints # X-44 Blue and PC-1 white and gently mix together untill you get the perfect colour.
Try a bit and if your not happy just wash it off with water.
Remember after youve touched it up put a little mylar over it to protect it.
Youve seen first hand a job i did on my AFM.
Now you know who i am

[Marty Machine]

Howdy,

Well, i have a white water AND i have a pantone colour-matching book here.

I can give you some colour codes to take to a paintshop to mix if u need, but this is reliant that MY blue is somewhat correct on my machine, no doubt it might also be faded etc? (although my playfield is prety damn clean & colourful).

Marty.

[Pintoxicated]

There is a site somewhere that has a list of colours and mixes for various machines.  Can't remember if it was Pinball Pal?????  Whitewater blue was included in the list though.

I will have a look, it had some good stuff on it but as mentioned earlier, it all depends whether your playfield is faded or not.

EDIT:  http://pinballpal.com/colors/  

Recommend this guy's stealth mylar as well....great product.  I have used it on all of my machines pretty much and it does a great job and peels off very easily.

[ktm450]

Wh20 blues were a real bitch to match, especially the light blue on the mini PF.  I ended up getting several different shades of blues and toning down with white until I got close, took me many tries before I got it spot on, then once I layed down the mylar over it the colour changed slightly    luckly it was not in a obvious area (ball drop)
My PF was very average and I had to do a lot of touchups, check out my resto here:

http://aussiepinball.com/index.php?topic=1404.0

Hope it helps