another plea for help with appropriate color

[jbwelda]

i am planning on building the AMT double kit of Wilhelms Wild Dream and Tognottis King T. ive got photos of the cars back in the day but i was wondering if anyone here could suggest colors to use to near replicate the originals. they need to be available in spray cans please as i do not use an airbrush. any brand would do i suppose but im partial to tamiya. duplicolor, krylon or of course model master would suffice especially if you could tell me the exact color name and/or code.

the AMT directions suggested colors but of course they were from their long gone paint line so thats not much help.

if i recall correctly the Wild Dream was sort of a lavender or maybe darker purple candy sort of finish while the King T was like a pearlescent white with maybe a hint of lavender or purple in there.

many thanks in advance!

[lordairgtar]

I'm just amazed you have those cars. Been looking but they get a little too dear price wise.

[jbwelda]

i know what you mean, i looked around quite a bit to score it, from a guy who read my half-hearted plea here somewhere. it was pretty expensive by my standards but in this case ive wanted to build the both of these cars, but esp the wild dream. in reality i got too many projects going right now to get seriously started, but im beginning to think about specifics.

one problem with it though, im not going to be able to build the wild dream with those big slicks on all four wheels, and those chrome side panels got to go. other than those two "improvements" i will probably build it right out of the box

i again have to thank the guy who sold me the kit, it made my year right there!

the kit is almost too nice to build but i promised i would. if you hound ebay you will find some available without the box or partially assembled or something like that. at the NNL west there was a vendor who had the pair of cars in a fairly nice box, partially assembled, slightly molested but all there. he told me he got $25 for it. i would have jumped at that if i had been on time.

[ramonesblues]

Bill, when I saw the Tognotti T at Oakland It was painted an Orchid pearl over a white base, I believe. If you want to know for sure, call Art Himsl in Concord. He'll know the shade. He is an encyclopedia on stuff like that.

[jbwelda]

thanks ramone, i knew don tognotti while he was still alive (here in sacramento...one of the reasons i want to build this model) and i saw pics of that car many times and actually have some copies of color pics so i basically knew the shade...but i would like to know what you or anyone thinks would be a close (enough) match available in a spray can today. ive looked at the model master and tamiya colors and nothing there matches my imagination but maybe theres a duplicolor or factory color available that someone knows about that will match well?

on the other hand maybe if i ask nice (and trade my old plymouth johan convert with box that he covets so) maybe i can get jerry amaral to airbrush it for me with custom blend paint. but i would rather do it myself (and keep my plymouth for a bigger trade when he gets *really* desperate!)