15 Nov
2004
15 Nov
'04
4:16 a.m.
If you take a sample to a store that sells automtive paint they'll match it up
exactly.* There are LOTS more automotive colors than home colors. After all, the auto
manufacturers come out with new colors very year. You don't paint your house a new
color every year do you? Once you find a color match how about reporting it here. Maybe
someone will collect all of the reports and make a cross reference.
*Well not just any store that sells auto paint. Discount Auto Parts and the like only
sell what comes in spray cans. Go to a store that sells auto paint to paint shops. They
custom mix everything.
Joe
At 01:28 PM 11/15/04 +0000, you wrote:
On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 23:22 -0800, Vintage Computer
Festival wrote:
Any local paint store or paint department in the
local hardware store
should be able to do a computerized paint match if you bring in a sample.
I used Behr color swatches from the Home Depot to match the colors for the
PDP-1 replica I did and they came out *very* close.
Agreed. The matches tend not to be perfect, even without taking sun fade
into account. For a computer where it'll be indoors anyway they're
probably acceptable though!
cheers
Jules