Zircon Blue - mixing formulas

drabbers

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Hi all,
Does anyone have any current mixing formulas for Zircon blue please.
I have had a couple of samples mixed using ICI formulas found online - they are a much darker blue and lack greenish tint (checked against un faded)

Many thanks.
Mark
 
Might be worth trying a different supplier. My local paint shop told me the code was no help but mixed a near perfect match with only the name BL gave the colour (Almond in my case) and the year of manufacture.
 
Worth chatting to mark gray. The burnt grey i got from him is spot on... His paint guy is a good one i think... dont know how it compares pricewise.
 
they are a much darker blue and lack greenish tint (checked against un faded)

I've seen a fair few like this. I remember the Classic and Sportscar P6 and thinking "that's not the Zircon blue I remember".
 
Hi, the way paint is mixed is different nowadays, weight vs percentage. The best way is if
you have got a sample of paint you want and get it spectrographed which will give you the
formula using modern tints. Any good paint supplier should be able to arrange it.

Colin
 
Thanks for all your input.
Will try taking a panel for 'spectrograph' and hopefully get a closer match.

Mark.
 
Success,
Just looked @ 3rd sample and looks good.
Slightly more vivid than original - faded - body panel, but it should look really good.

Mark.
 
drabbers said:
they are a much darker blue and lack greenish tint (checked against un faded)
I've got the same problem. Here is a photo which illustrates the point (probably not exact in colour rendition, but not bad):

I believe BOP was resprayed approx 20 years ago. I've just sprayed the replacement front wings in the Zircon Blue I got mixed in 2010 (OK, so it's taken a while .. :oops: ) & the colour is what I believe is true Zircon, but quite different from that on the car, which is certainly darker without the greenish tint.

I've sent a sample from the same sill to a local paint factors to mix to, as I'm tidying up the paint, not doing a full respray.
 

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That's quite a difference, the incorrectly mixed colours often look so close to Corsica blue as to not make a difference. My car is very likely to go Zircon in the near future and I watch this thread with interest. To me, glibly ignoring all the variables of colour rendition and monitor calibration, this is what I think of when I think Zircon. More a dark teal than blue. It's blue, its green, it's grey.....

http://www.havako.nl/.cm4all/iproc.php/ ... ckleft.jpg
 
The colour difference on sill shown exactly as my original samples - except other way round -
When looking on line I found a ref for late p6 as Atlantis blue superceding Zircon ? - it looked a darker blue.
Could that be 'BOP' colour?

Mark.
 
Atlantis is a very late P6 colour 75/76.

The darker blues went Corsica->Scarab->Atlantis, whereas Zircon existed before and then in parallel with these.
 
Actually isn't Zircon incredibly close to British Rail blue (Monastral blue) and seems to go through the same tonal variations of blue/green/grey.
 
mine was sprayed about ten years ago by the PO. The colour match is pretty poor if I'm honest, but as least its all the same colour. I think the original Zircon blue is is a really nice tone with some earthy undertone to it its quite sophisticated. It changes colour depending on whatever light its in.
 

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Thanks, I wasn't sure I liked the colour when I first got her, but it gets a lot of complements when we take Beryl out.
 
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