Patrick Black
Aluminum
- Joined
- Dec 11, 2007
- Location
- Middle Tennessee
This thread is hilarious (and flattering).
You know fellows, when I came up with this color a couple years ago, I just dumped a few glugs of this color and a several glugs of that color etc. into a bucket and I stirred it all up and just kept adjusting it till it was close enough. I was "shooting" for rockmoss green but when it looked like it would look good on my lathe, I just stopped. I wouldn't paint my Model A with it. I would get PPG to mix it up if I wanted to use it on a car or tractor or something else that I wanted to look bonestock factory original. In other words, I called it "rockmoss" green but in reality it's just a bunch of inexpensive tractor/implement paint in somwhat stock tractor colors mixed together.
I've used the same process to mix different colors for antique engines and carts more recently. When I mix, I just go for my perception of what I think it should or would have looked like without getting too stressed up over historical reality. It's just a hobby and most iron artifacts of the era had a lot of color variation over time as different batches were delivered and suppliers changed.
By the way, the Hendey paint is still holding up good after three years. Some parts have been covered in spindle/way/cutting/hydraulic oil for three years and it hasn't had any effect on the paint. Since there is no UV exposure I expect it will do fine.
I might suggest anyone wanting to paint something a non-stock "old looking" color to do what I did and get a Model A repaint manual and look at all the different colors used. I think a two-tone chicle drab and copra drab would look pretty spiffy on an old machine tool. Or look at other examples of cars, appliances, and machinery from the era.
Kind of a bummer about TSC dropping the Valspar brand. They do have the same colors in the new Magic brand so not all hope is lost. I'm willing to give it a shot and see how it holds up in the near future.
Pat Black
You know fellows, when I came up with this color a couple years ago, I just dumped a few glugs of this color and a several glugs of that color etc. into a bucket and I stirred it all up and just kept adjusting it till it was close enough. I was "shooting" for rockmoss green but when it looked like it would look good on my lathe, I just stopped. I wouldn't paint my Model A with it. I would get PPG to mix it up if I wanted to use it on a car or tractor or something else that I wanted to look bonestock factory original. In other words, I called it "rockmoss" green but in reality it's just a bunch of inexpensive tractor/implement paint in somwhat stock tractor colors mixed together.
I've used the same process to mix different colors for antique engines and carts more recently. When I mix, I just go for my perception of what I think it should or would have looked like without getting too stressed up over historical reality. It's just a hobby and most iron artifacts of the era had a lot of color variation over time as different batches were delivered and suppliers changed.
By the way, the Hendey paint is still holding up good after three years. Some parts have been covered in spindle/way/cutting/hydraulic oil for three years and it hasn't had any effect on the paint. Since there is no UV exposure I expect it will do fine.
I might suggest anyone wanting to paint something a non-stock "old looking" color to do what I did and get a Model A repaint manual and look at all the different colors used. I think a two-tone chicle drab and copra drab would look pretty spiffy on an old machine tool. Or look at other examples of cars, appliances, and machinery from the era.
Kind of a bummer about TSC dropping the Valspar brand. They do have the same colors in the new Magic brand so not all hope is lost. I'm willing to give it a shot and see how it holds up in the near future.
Pat Black
