the restoration continues ... with the paint job!you might be wondering (or not): moon patrol is supposed to be ully's number one game, why the heck doesn't he finish it? the answer is simple: because that dark blue paint has been killing me over the last few months! here's a short restrospective
the cabinet has various scratches like the one on the following picture all over the sides
as always, i want the cabinet to be as perfect as possible (especially this one), so those scratches have to go of course. for that, i bought a collection of different shades of blue ...
... and mixed them up in various proportions with the hopes of finding the perfect match for the dark blue!
sometimes i came really close, but most of the times my "potions" were off! mixing paint definitely is an art - and unfortunately one i'm not very good at!
with my favorite paint shop (for color scanning) closed and cutting out another piece of wood from the artwork to have it scanned by bruno not being an option i grabbed the last straw i had
inside of that "ebay box", a tool i had already talked about in the past: the latest model of a color scanner!
looks nice and seems to be of high quality
let's put this thing to the test: after an initial calibration, put it on top of the color to be scanned, ...
... press the scan button, ...
... and let those color leds underneath do their magic!
the results are in
off with the measured color code to a paint shop for an immediate test on the cabinet - looking already very good, right?
a careful first stroke of the brush!
the usual comparison pics: before ...
... and after! it's not a 100% match, but - honestly - i wasn't expecting it to be! is it even possible to find a perfect match to an almost 30 year-old color? however, it's so much better than before and really very close! the cabinet won't be portrayed in bright sunlight, it will be shoved in between other cabs, but the knowledge of having found such a nice result is what makes it count. totally worth investing the money for the color scanner, a tool i will definitely be using again in the future!
to be continued ...
