Chameleon blue

[j121]

Can anyone help out with a pic of this colour. I have signed the papers for a tuscan (2002)from racing green but have to wait 2 weeks for rims etc to be sorted, and the family/friends etc can't understand my (colourful if inaffective) attempts at explanation...

[Supersonic]

Cacatous' beast

[BrianTheYank]

Lovely

Dont mean to highjack the thread to much, but Ive always wondered, how do they get the paint to look like that?

[beano500]

j121 said:

Can anyone help out with a pic of this colour. I have signed the papers for a tuscan (2002)from racing green but have to wait 2 weeks for rims etc to be sorted, and the family/friends etc can't understand my (colourful if inaffective) attempts at explanation...

Nice looking motor, that one - saw it in the flesh just the other day.

Don't bother trying to explain it to them - just say you haven't decided on a blue one or a green one yet!

Alternatively find Tiff Needel's Tuscan clip from Top Gear - has Luca Brazzi or someone got that?

[beano500]

Like here:

www.sleepy-fish.com/video_page.htm

[cacatous]

BrianTheYank said:

Lovely Dont mean to highjack the thread to much, but Ive always wondered, how do they get the paint to look like that?

The paint is magnetically charged so it effectively faces different directions. So when you look from one direction it's green and another is blue.

Also why it's easy to touch up any stone chips etc..

[j121]

Thanks Supersonic, legend... Cacatous, how's the new beast? anything I should know about the Tuscan anyone? apart from avoiding black ice that is... Beano - thanks for the sentiment but I'm Slumming it with a dial up connection - I think the car would arrive before I could hope to download anything!

>> Edited by j121 on Friday 23 April 19:41

[jigs]

Magnetically charged on a GRP body - here try my left leg as well!

[powerlord]

BrianTheYank said:

Lovely Dont mean to highjack the thread to much, but Ive always wondered, how do they get the paint to look like that?

aha. there was an article on that very subject a few weeks ago in New Scientist.

It's basically to do with the paint containing nano-particles which absorb light of certain frequencies or summit. i.e. it is not a conventional pigment based colour. It was an interesting article... although clearly went in one ear and out the other.

stu

[cacatous]

j121 said:

Thanks Supersonic, legend... Cacatous, how's the new beast? anything I should know about the Tuscan anyone? apart from avoiding black ice that is... Beano - thanks for the sentiment but I'm Slumming it with a dial up connection - I think the car would arrive before I could hope to download anything! >> Edited by j121 on Friday 23 April 19:41

The new beast is going this week

Too much money!

As Arnie said... I'll be back!

[cacatous]

jigs said:

Magnetically charged on a GRP body - here try my left leg as well!

So if you sellotape a magnet to a peice of plastic, it stops being magnetic does it?

[jigs]

So now you're saying that as well as being magnetically charged the paint is also held on by sellotape!

[j121]

cacatous said:

j121 said: Thanks Supersonic, legend... Cacatous, how's the new beast? anything I should know about the Tuscan anyone? apart from avoiding black ice that is... Beano - thanks for the sentiment but I'm Slumming it with a dial up connection - I think the car would arrive before I could hope to download anything! >> Edited by j121 on Friday 23 April 19:41 The new beast is going this week Sorry to hear it - don't take too long, i've had withdrawl symtoms! Too much money! As Arnie said... I'll be back!

[cacatous]

jigs said:

So now you're saying that as well as being magnetically charged the paint is also held on by sellotape!

Almost as ropey as your humour jigs