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Have bought my other half a bike for Christmas, which is in great condition, bar a few scratches on the paintwork. It's a Liv Devote 1 in a matt greeny colour (officially desert sage) but Liv don't do touch up paint.
Example of one of the scratches:
Any better ideas than trying to find a nail polish that's a close enough match?
Take the bike along to a paint shop - I used a local motor factors. Guy there spent about 10 mins going through sample booklets (he had literally thousands of colour samples) on the 4 bikes I arrived with. Very very close matches for all, around £5 a small pot of touch up paint.
Cheers a11y!
I used ebay (don't like going to places! 😉 ) - Looked at the modelling enamel paint sellers, most who have huge lists of colours. May not be as perfect a match as the moto guy, but its only for teeny marks 🙂
Seller I used was called villacr-11
I'm not an expert but you might truffle to find a nail varnish that colour and mixing can be hard.
Repair place where they have fan decks/colour cards is good. Especially if they can order you a sample.
Model shop looks a good about for that colour. Looks kind of like a green you might find for something military. I know I said mixing is hard but you might find something pretty close and add some white. That's probably the easiest change to get right.
Have you tried a specialized dealer?
I've had success contacting the manufacturer who told me the exact shade (it was an alpha numeric code) which I ordered separately from a specialist paint distributor.
Once you've got the right colour how well does it apply? Is there a knack to ensure it dries flat, or is it a case of just accepting that it looks less shit than chips?
Cheers Miles, I mailed Liv and got a reply within 2 minutes with the paint code (Pantone 5507 C if anyone finds this post in a search in future).
I ordered a touch paint stick from these guys: https://www.bodicraftsupplies.co.uk/ which was shipped the same day. Should make it look a bit more shiny for the gf for Christmas.
Cheers all
That's a cool result 👍
@hunta - the only way to get a dried-flat hidden touch-up is to do like you would on a car body repair, sand the area and layer the paint. IMO it's hardly worth it on an MTB and you might end up making it look worse. https://www.condorcycles.com/blogs/journal/how-to-touch-up-bicycle-paint-work-and-frame
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