Paint crazy

The new darker grey arrived from the paint company today. Hopeless again – still too light. If only I’d made them match the original colour sample I sent them. The trouble is that the colour references I have to work with are very small and in reality it’s impossible to see which grey is the closest match to MYRO’s panel as I’m now proving.

But not to be deterred, as I’m not going to try again (I’m already over £22 down on paint all for the sake of a couple of relatively tiny panel repairs) I thought I’d see what I could do to make my own match that I could then brush on. All I did was spray some black gloss into an aerosol lid followed by increasing amounts of the latest grey until I got a grey that I judged was about right. I started off by doing the filled holes in the panel top that won’t be seen actually and after deciding they looked OK, I then did the main panel repairs this evening. It’s too late now to do any pictures, but I’m absolutely delighted with the results 😀

All I’ve done is T-Cut them in and as my old granny might have said, a blind man would be pleased to see them. You’ll hardly be able to see the main repair on the pilot’s side anyway as it’s underneath the front, but in fact it’s come up very well. And the repairs on the panel feet are hardly noticeable at all in the light in my conservatory, so I just hope they look as good tomorrow in daylight.

So after being driven a bit crazy by this paint matching lark, it looks as though I may at last have come out on top. I left a couple of holes in the panel top which I thought lined up with their counterparts in the pod but now I’m not so sure. Tomorrow I’ll check and if either or both don’t, then I’ll fill them and paint them in too, effectively starting panel fitting from scratch. The panel top came from MYRO and the pod holes are a legacy from MYFI so in the long run, it’ll probably be the best way.

Just returned to add a couple of shots of the repaired screen.

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I’m satisfied with the results. They are not perfect by any means but it’s a compromise between time and finish in this situation – if you had time to fill, rub down, fill and rub down again, try a coat of paint, fine fill and rub down again and so on, you could get results that would be much better. But in any case, it’s a well-used panel now and there are quite a few other marks on it, so I don’t think that the most recent repairs stand out too much 😉