Ok so in February I moved house & I had a couple of other builds ( 2 TRM’ s) that I wanted to finish .
Plus I was re designing the garden & building my man cave garden room ( bar ) along with other renovations that were & still are sucking my finances dry
so this went on the back burner for a good 8 months or so & I’ve been itching to get it painted at least .
I drove to a friend of mine ( KIBBY @ Paintworx Loughborough) & a couple of weeks later (as he's been so busy) we discussed colours for the frame set as we only had the images above to work from & a standard (Hutch baby pink powder coat) that seems to get thrown on everything just wasn't gonna cut it as this id definitely lighter & needed to be wet paint just like the original.
After looking through some old colour swatches we found this old paint colour used in the 80’s which looked to be a perfect match called (Lupin). The paint supplier wasn't sure they could even still mix this old colour due to paint standards changing many times since its creation but after checking they were able to put the colour together & it's as close as you can get (from a photo reference point at least)
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It came out amazing & just the ( stock ) colour I imagined the originals to be . Steve' or (Kibby) has worked on 2 of my old Porches in the past plus countless bmw's & Audi's that I've owned & has done a few BMX bits for me over the years ( handlebars mostly ) but never a full frame set but i knew the job would be exceptional. I mean a guy trusted to paint 300k lambo's is gonna be good ...
So on Tuesday I collected her & Im in Love
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