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Norton Forest Green

Submitted by kevin_holden on Sun, 10/04/2022
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I bought a 1960 Model 50  a year ago which was in a restored condition and painted in the colour Forest Green.

Now I need to touch up a few bits here and there and paint and fit a later main stand that I've just got from the NOC Shop (which will hopefully make it easier to get it onto the stand ;-)

Anyway, then comes the question which green was used on the bike, which is impossible to say exactly as the previous owner has passed away and his relatives sold the bike to the dealer I purchased the bike from.

I had the idea to get the paint scanned by a local paint supplier, which was done by giving them the Norton's battery box cover which they had for a week (via post etc), and basically they adapted/mixed an existing VW green to "match" mine.

The problem is, it's not a 100% match, the different is annoyingly visible,  and they say they can only work with what they can do, i.e. mix from a base colour (such as the VW green) and then get as close as possible using other additions.

Well, this sounds like BS to me.  My understanding is that one can mix an  exact colour,  and I wondered whether anybody has any similar experience of scanning and matching an existing but unknown colour?

Thanks.

Submitted by john_holmes on Sun, 10/04/2022

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It is BS, modern matching techniques are 100% to the sample, so unless the sample is different from the rest, due say to being covered and protected from UV, then you should see no difference.

Submitted by jonathan_newton on Sun, 10/04/2022

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 Forest Green ES2 and Model 50 Rover Cameron Green B266 or  Vauxhall Laurel 4635

But to match a non standard finish a spectrum analyser is used. They used to use them in B&Q but I’m use there are plenty of supplier services out there.

RS paints supplied my dove grey.

cheers

Jon

Thanks, yes, I am aware of those colours as the closest but, as you say, it's possibly a non-standard colour and it's difficult to say whether one of those two colours was actually used.

The bike was originally in the UK but came to Switzerland (where it is now, a bit far from B&Q ;-)  and I don't know whether it was restored here or in the UK to be honest.

I guess I could also try a touch-up of those two and see whether it's a perfect match.. (anybody know where touch-up paints can be bought for these colours?)

 

Submitted by kevin_holden on Mon, 11/04/2022

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After looking around, I am pretty sure that the code given on the Norton Colours list is incorrect, it should be

8453 Cameron Green

(e.g. https://www.oval.co.uk/shop/blvc-british-leyland-8453-cameron-green/)

the code 8453 was the original BLMC colour code, I suspect B266 was some supplier's code that had it in between times, but if you search google you won't find "cameron green" and "B266"

I mostly find HCA used as a code by paint manufacturers now. (see the Glasurit colour code tool, for example on their website called "color-online", or Lechler pain supplies)

 

 


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