[Phono-L] Paint for a Maroon Gem

[Ron L'Herault]

If you are happy mixing paints, you could try the stuff Testors sells in
little bottles for model car/plane painting.  There are a lot of colors and
they are not too expensive to play around with.  I get mine at the local
(North Attleboro, MA) hobby/train shop.

Ron L

-----Original Message-----
From: phono-l-bounces at oldcrank.org [mailto:phono-l-bounces at oldcrank.org] On
Behalf Of Bob
Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 8:33 AM
To: Antique Phonograph List
Subject: [Phono-L] Paint for a Maroon Gem

I'm restoring an Edison Maroon Gem.  The paint is really in pretty good 
shape except for a few chips.   Initially I was going to leave them alone 
but they are really bugging me.  I thought I could find the matching color 
by checking nail polish colors.  I found one that looked pretty good under 
the store lighting but in natural daylight it doesn't match. I'm going to 
tinker with it to see if I can improve the match by painting lighter colors 
and shades under it.  I do this on a piece of sheet metal.  I lay down 
stripes of different colors and then run a stripe of the color I'm trying to

adjust across the stripes.  I've been able to match the browns used on 
Edison Amberola V and VI's pretty closely with this technique.  These were 
fairly easy because I had a brown that was close and only had to darken it 
by adding black.  With the Maroon nail polish I have the color is too dark 
and probably should be a little redder so I'm not too confident I can get a 
good match.  Do any of you know a source for a paint that matches the Maroon

on Edison Gems?  If I can't get a good match I will leave the chips alone. 
Thanks.
Bob V 

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