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Originally Posted by davkyt
.....the gold is too dark and the lacquer is to glossy......
I don’t know whether to go with it or strip it and start again.....
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What paint shade have you used?
Keeping it really depends whether you like it, and what you are trying to achieve?
If you want a perfect match to original paint that’s a slippery slope as the gold frame paint doesn’t seem to be all the same on the earliest Monsters with black wheels. It was a different then, more champagne shade of gold on the next Monsters (With silver wheels), then went silver, black, or all sorts. 916s are completely different too,
For mine I matched the original paint I found under the Type Approval plate riveted to the frame, but that showed the rest of the frame paint had lightened where exposed to sun and air. 1990s paint clearly wasn’t completely colour stable.
If you like the paint you’ve got, just keep a swatch sample handy when choosing complementary and contrasting colour shades for everything else.
‘Lacquer too glossy’ can be fixed by being gently flatted back and over-sprayed with a coat of semi-gloss.