The trick is to match it to the model you're working on. OG Rivs are VERY yellow, the current ones are near-white, and the Rambouillet I owned appeared to be completely white. In other words, mix it 'til you like it.
On Wednesday, February 24, 2021 at 6:51:44 PM UTC-8 iamkeith wrote: > I've attempted to mix touch up colors for most of my bikes over the years, > with varying-but-almost-always-less-than-perfect results. The only one I > ever got perfect was creme for filling in lug windows to match Rivendell > headtubes. It ended up being nothing more than white with a few drops of > yellow mixed in. Testor's enamels are easy to find at modeling/craft > stores, are inexpensive and come in nice-sized small bottles, but latex > might work too, so experimenting is cheap and easy. > > On Wednesday, February 24, 2021 at 7:07:17 PM UTC-7 Collin A wrote: > >> Reach out to Riv! There was a mention of it on one of grant's Blahgs >> maybe 2 years ago related to the Gus Boots wilsen if you want to go >> searching... >> >> Collin in Sacramento >> >> On Wednesday, February 24, 2021 at 3:49:35 PM UTC-8 J Schwartz wrote: >> >>> Greetings >>> Does anyone know the color or a close enough match to the official cream >>> head tube color Riv uses? Having my SH frame worked on and subsequently >>> painted and trying to figure that piece out. >>> Thank you >>> JS >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/e471adf1-4de6-4f01-913f-ce943e766db7n%40googlegroups.com.
