Gents, I have recently painted my crossley and i'm a not sure if its
the correct shade. The paint ordered was BS14 C Shade 39? that i was
told is correct for a crossley, but the more i look at it the more
uncertain i become. Your opinions would be appreciated.
I've tagged a couple of pics on webshots
Gary,
Silly question but does your flash work :-)) as I peered into the darkness I
think I spotted what looked like the block of a Crossley in a nice shade of
green. It looks near enough to me.
Martin P
Hi martin, the flash does work, but unfortunately my workshop is quite
dark at the best of times. so i can only apologize for the poor quality
of the pics. Regards, Gary
I transferred it to PSP8 & had a twiddle with it, reverting to the original
each time to try and get a feel for it. Hard to be sure from the evidence,
but FWIW, it is a pretty close match for my 1075
Regards,
J. Kim Siddorn,
Thanks Kim. I might just be paranoid, or it could be the brunswick
tinted glasses :-)). I just had a look at your 1075 on webshots, and
your right it's not to far away. I've looked at lots of pics on the web
and they seem to be all shades of green, its hard to choose which is
the right colour.
I think i read in the archives somewhere you bought the crossley from
Rex chatfield?. I was next to Rex at onslow park in august, he
mentioned the crossley, and how it was getting a bit heavy for him. He
was showing his tangye M, that runs a treat I could stand and watch it
running all day.
Cheers, Regards, Gary M.
That's right, Rex Chatfield found it languishing in a barn in a terrible
state & restored it to a good standard. It has a lot of nice touches - like
brass plates instead of steel to cover the oil pockets & a hand made,
riveted petrol tank with a hand made petrol cap with a big "C" milled into
the top. The carburettor has a lot of brass about it and is supplied via a
brass (not copper) pipe.
I swapped a Ducati Sebring for it in one of those rare deals in which both
parties thought they came out ahead!
I quite soon found it a suitable 110 Volt dynamo to drive, but with the
Crossley weighing in at seven hundredweight & the dynamo at another three,
it became obvious that they needed a dedicated trailer to display them,
something I do not have the space to store. My current plan is to clear a
corner of the workshop (HA!!) and mount them on a concrete plinth for my own
amusement.
Regards,
J. Kim Siddorn,
That because the shade of green that you monitor displays has to many
variables in the path from the camera to your display. Unless the
particular image you are looking at has a color chart in view that you
can then adjust your monitor to render correctly colours can be very
variable.
Dave's right. However, if you do a lot of photo handling, you tend to get a
"feel" for the colour and I can get a pretty good idea by seeing what comes
up when I change the contrast, balance, saturation etc. and compare each
variable with the original.
Regards,
J. Kim Siddorn,
As a fellow 1060 owner, I'd be interested to hear what you thought was
wrong with the colour. The first thing I noticed when I bought paint
to the oft quoted BS reference was that it looke to be a very blueish
green and very "fresh" compared to Crossleys seen on the raly field. I
now believe that this colour darkens with time, and the degree of
gloss/weathering also alters the perceived colour, as does the quality
of the light, and some photos taken with fill in flash look completely
different to those taken with only natural light.
Examples of my Crossley (and Wolseley WD2 with a base coat of the same
paint) can be seen on my website
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John Ambler
Sussex, UK
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John,
I think the colour looks great, but having only restored
Listers before i'm used to seeing engines painted with brunswick green,
so it took a bit of getting used to and i don't have much faith in my
paint supplyer, he's got it wrong a couple of times.:-((
Your quite right it does have a slightly blue tinge to it, but now the
paint has hardened off a bit i'm alot more satisfied with the results
so much so i've started to build the engine back up. but still being a
relative novice I thought a bit of moral support was needed.
Regards Gary M
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