Here are 100ml samples of two of the colours - Porsche Bahama Yellow, and Mercedes 903 Blue.
On researching the RAL / BS / HEX code of Bahama Yellow, I discovered that its inverse (ie. complimentary) colour is a cyan blue much like Merc 903. I know I give the impression of being all over the place, but I thought this (clearly) non-coincidence just went to prove entirely the opposite.
These were my final two colour choices. I'd love to do Sand Beige, but its just too muddy and depressing when set against the dark green environs of where I live (lots of Scots pines and other looming trees). The blue is beautiful, but every piece of clothing that I own is either grey or this tone of blue, which to me kind of says it really needs to be Bahama Yellow. I was talking about Bahama Yellow in this thread back nearly two years ago. I am evidently like some sort of tortuous broken record. Apologies.
jamie, in August 2013 wrote:I like Ivory, Slate and Aga, but I expect they will also suffer under the dark light of the tall tree canopy in the same way Sand Beige does. My favourite is Bahama Yellow - seems very period, tones well with the house...
I will blame my diversion on satin silver idea. I'm pretty heartbroken it didn't work but, as also already mentioned, it can be visited later on if I still have the energy.
I'm getting close to having everything ready for paint now. The bonnet has eaten an entire pot of filler and I wonder whether the gas struts will lift it when it's done. Man, that's funny... Actually, most of the filler ended up as dust on my garage floor. I do like block-sanding, but I seem to waste loads of material.
This bonnet really is a piece of crap. The one thing it has going for it is that its solid. But that's all. It's just a piece of shite.
To top it all, I got invaded by may bugs, some of which got stuck in the filler.
I was working down in East Sussex earlier in the week and managed to drop my wheels over to Nick Moss to be refurbed. Whilst I was there, Nick showed me a carbon bonnet that was being fitted to a customers car. It was beautiful - a proper autoclaved work of woven art with a really low resin content and a beautiful matte, raw finish. The whole thing appeared to be a totally accurate repro of a factory steel bonnet. It was unbelievably light, too.
Having spent the past few weeks battling with my crinkly old (heavy) steel lid, I was getting pretty psyched about buying one of these for myself. I love stealth lightweight, and I especially love crisp, light, unglossy carbon.
Then a colleague pointed out that the last place I should be trying to remove weight from my car is the front. He's right, of course. So I killed that idea, and saved myself some money, which I can spend on another pot of filler.
No progress this weekend - I am riding my bike around the Eifel mountains under the pretense of shooting a couple of cars racing at the Nurburgring. Lovely!
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