BVM Mig.15

John, Motabitz in Ferndown used to make up car paint aerosols. Might be worth giving them a ring. When I had my red Jaguar the garage had some custom touch up pens made up for me. I'll see if I can find out where from.

Your MIG "blue" looks a bit like duck-egg blue. Strange colour but I thought that maybe the new Fiat 500 was close.

Morning Guys
In the picture the grey twin pipe is the front intake, which connects to the the black turbine bypass and then the stainless twin wall tail pipe.
The tanks are in position ready to be connected up, more pics as I go along

JRI wrote: As Pete pointed out earlier in this thread - my current task is to try and find matching underside blue and topside sand coloured paints for the air brakes and drop tanks.
BVM are unable to supply the paints (due to customs restrictions) or colour codes, and I have not found a standard car paint which is a close enough match to either colour. B&Q and other diy shops claim to be able to match colours but they obviously supply emulsion and water based wood paints mainly. So does anyone have a lead on a source of paint matching in small quantities for hobbyists or maybe car repairs?

I have tried Motabitz and Halfords before, they both do paint matching but they need a colour reference code, they can't do it from a sample. There are companies who can scan colours but I haven't managed to find one locally yet.

Someone recently posted about this company, think it might have been Colin A, but I haven't tried contacting them myself.

www.rainbow-paints.co.uk/

Turbine by-pass cradle doublers made up and glued in position after using a needle file on the fuzz formers to clear the screw heads. Front intake added so I can get the exact position of the by-pass so I can drill the 4x fixing holes into the ply blocks on the cradle.
Even though the carbon by-pass is made from high temperature epoxy/carbon cloth the heat generated from a turbine can reach around 650c so it will have three coats of high temperature paint.

Pics

Sorry some pictures are upside

As I have the fuzz on the bench a good time to cut the cooling slots on the bottom of the wing fillet. Marked the slots using the paper template, stitch drill and Cleaned up using flat and round files.

Rear Aluminium heat shield fitted

Well BVM! You cannot supply the paint codes? Because the colour was just randomly sourced? If they were really interested they could give John the manufacturer contact info who "might" be willing to give the colour codes used to make the mixes with known paint makers here.

If only a small quantity, for instance two aerosol cans worth, (approx 500ml would it not be a problem for shipment by the men in brown or DHL.

Of course you could take a sample to the local Uni and get them to Spectrum Analyse it. :lol:

Yes it's a shame John can't source from BVM, especially when I only need a very small amount as I will be using it in a air brush.