Kinda funny, my wife and daughters have created quite a collection of nail-polish for me, for the bikes...
I also have a Sally Hansen Hard as Nails for the green Rambouillet, Emerald City (now discontinued). The orange for the Bombadil (Rambouillet orange), is a creamcicle color, I can't remember the brand off the top of my head. I can't remember the Romulus blue, either, will have to look later.... On Friday, March 25, 2016 at 6:47:04 PM UTC-4, islaysteve wrote: > > I finally tracked down one of the nail polishes recommended in > cyclofiends's Bleriot webpage, thought I'd share what I found. Sally > Hansen Marine Scene is the color. It's discontinued, as are the other two > recommended (NYC 241 and Maybelline). The Sally Hansen polish is the only > one that I found to be available on Amazon. The full info is: Sally > Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme wear #4860-19 (top of cap says 19 Marine Scene. > I found it to be a very close match. The vendor that comes up in an > Amazon search says there are 8 left in stock. Cost shown is $5.38 with > free shipping (I paid slightly less). > > There are probably contemporary brands/colors that will also work. I > would suggest looking at O.P.I. polishes which seem to be pretty available > and have one or two colors that look close, to my eye. Anyway... > > A few tips: > --I cleaned the area to be touched up with pure acetone. I think it > dulled the finish there a bit, nothing major but I wouldn't recommend using > this, but perhaps rubbing alcohol instead. If you use a separate brush, > you can clean the brush in acetone. > --On advice from my wife, I used Sally Hansen Hard as Nails (clear) both > as a base coat and top coat. With two coats of color, this does make for a > thicker touchup area. It's up to you whether to go this route. > --Nail polish seems pretty thin. Shake up the bottle very well before you > paint. The first coat probably won't cover deep scratches or chips > completely, so let that dry thoroughly and coat again. If you're very > particular you may want to get a very tiny brush from an art supply place > and use instead of the supplied brush. The supplied brush does pretty well > if you're careful. > Here are a Before and After picture. The scratches were deep and were > from a Hupe. If you think it looked better Before, well, we just don't > need to hear about that, do we? ; - ) > Cheers, Steve > > > > -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
