Interlux Brightsides Paint - Shades of Blue

[david.h]

I plan to touch-up a portion of my blue stripe on my 87 Cruisers to cover over some wear through/scratches in the existing Imron job. Since I just spent about $18K on a re-power last season, a new Imron job is out of the question. I thought I could "touch-up" the bad spots with a topsides paint. Interlux's Brightsides seems to offer the closest match to the existing blue, but the closest is still too dark.

Can I mix either a white or a light blue Brightsides with with the mid-blue shade so that I can get to a closer match?

Any suggestions are appreciated.

 

[pdecat]

as long as you stay in the same brand and paint family I have never seen any problem mixing. Getting a good color match however is beyond my ability.
I goofed I read awlgrip not imron, brain fart I guess. Yes imron can be matched well but if it a standard color then the problem becomes easier. I am not sure how well it can be buffed out though.

 

[Mike Ryan]

mixing with another polyurethane paint wont cause a problem. Imron is readily availabe here at auto paint stores, where they use a machine to exact match it. here we can get it in small quantities. you could check into that.
as for you mixing, its trial and error. white, light blue, even a grey could acheive the right color. it depends on which one would cost you more i guess

 

[Ghost]

David, I call tell you for a fact that Brighside does fine mixing it. How do I know? Well, I used to work on underwater scooters, which I have painted a couple with Brightside. It does a fantastic job, very durable. Once I had a friends scooter in my shop and ya know, he had abused it enough that I felt it needed a little retribution. So I went and bought a can of red and a can of white and started mixing until I got the color of about pepto bizmo and painted his scooter pepto pink. Did a fantastic job. I think I still have a partial can around the shop somewhere...

You can buy empty quart cans. Get one and do your mixing there. You should have seen the look when I gave it back to him. Start with the white and add color to it. It takes a little color into white to darken, but a lot of white into dark to lighten.

bp

 

[jtybt15]

I haven't tried briteside specifically...but I've found baby blue to be the hardest color to match. The wet and dried color can be very far off.