Hammered light blue paint for enclosure?

[ragamuffin]

This might seem like a very silly question, but I'm planning a silicon Zonk ii/Reeves Zo build and was hoping to paint the enclosure in a hammertone light blue metallic paint like the original. I was thinking that I could drive down to the hardware store or Walmart and pickup up a can, but it seems that that is not an option! Rustoleum had a color like that, but apparently discontinued it several years ago. I spent like an hour scouring the internet last night, and can't seem to find a hammered light blue metallic spray can online either!

I guess my next best option is to use say a silver or any color hammertone paint and spray a separate light blue metallic color coat over it, but I feel like that won't come out quite as nice... I found a thread on another site (about restoring tools/equipment) where someone looking for a similar finish for their tool bought a can of brush-on Rustoleum silver hammerd paint and tinted it with Mixol blue tint. I'd like to avoid that as the can of brush-on is like $40. Anyone have any ideas?

This is the kind of look that I'm hoping to get:

 

[jwin615]

Hammerite 41150, if you can find it

 

[ragamuffin]

Hammerite 41150, if you can find it

That would be perfect but seems to be unobtanium as well

 

[jessenator]

I went to look and they stopped selling Rust-Oleum 7212 light blue. Bummer. Some dude on eBay has a rattle can of it for $75

 

[Locrian99]

I went to look and they stopped selling Rust-Oleum 7212 light blue. Bummer. Some dude on eBay has a rattle can of it for $75

Yea i went on a mission a few years ago looking for it. Think i called every hardware store in a 50 mile radius

 

[Bricksnbeatles]

I did a lot of looking into this, and in the US at least it’s pretty much impossible to get. A few different blue hammer yoke paints still in production, but none of them ship to the US

 

[jessenator]

Just not popular? Expensive? Very strange that blue is the hue.

 

[Erik S]

Green too I guess.

Just checked my paint stash and I’ve got 6 cans. Going for 50 a can on eBay. Time to cash in.

 

[jessenator]

I mean, maybe grease the palm of the hapless home depot paint monger, get them to add some white then some Azure Tide to the gray shade?

 

[nooneknows]

I like hammered copper in the picture. I'm going to build something with that color.

 

[Locrian99]

Tayda does now have a hammered blue powder coat. And stompbox parts aquavein looks awesome.

 

[Cybercow]

Hammerite 41150 under $10 (plus shipping) HERE.

 

[ragamuffin]

Hammerite 41150 under $10 (plus shipping) HERE.

Thanks I saw that, but when I click "add to cart" it goes an "Internal Server Error" page

 

[jwin615]

That website is copyright 2015

 

[ragamuffin]

I hate to spend too much money on aesthetics, but I'm pretty dead set on getting light blue hammertone so I think I'm going to buy the quart can of the Rustoleum brush-on silver and try to tint some of it blueish like I read about on that garage tool forum. I found a lower price on it (local Ace Hardware, $22), and I'll see if I can talk the paint desk person into giving me a squirt of blue tint, if not I'll buy some Mixol tint.

 

[swelchy]

if you find a metallic blue that you like you can purchase some silicon dry lube spray and spray the silicone spray right over the top of your wet paint and it will create the hammered look... do some samples first of course

 

[ragamuffin]

if you find a metallic blue that you like you can purchase some silicon dry lube spray and spray the silicone spray right over the top of your wet paint and it will create the hammered look... do some samples first of course

Oh interesting! I found a decent Duplicolor metalic light blue at an auto parts store

 

[Cybercow]

Thanks I saw that, but when I click "add to cart" it goes an "Internal Server Error" page

Bummer. Sorry I didn't investigate further.

 

[ragamuffin]

Bummer. Sorry I didn't investigate further.

No worries!

 

[tegendemuur]

Yeah. Since Reeves released a blue version of a varation of this pedal earlier this year, don't get stuck on an overpriced discontinued can. I found Motip 04011. A Dutch example. Pretty sure other EU members have their own industrial / automotive brand to cover this color.



Excellent German brand that might be available in the US.