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Cant seem to get the colour right on my '64 Super Dexta.

the paint I got from agriline looks to be too light, any body know if they changed the colour to a lighter or darker shade when switching to the grey wheeled Super Dexta.

thank you

Not painting this one pink BTW, maybe next time.

New Performance Blue is a bit lighter than Empire Blue. Here's a thread about it:
http://www.fordsontractorpages.nl/phpbb ... blue+paint
All the best

I hear this years colour is 'hearing aid beige'

Thanks for that, Empire Blue it is then

landowner wrote:Thanks for that, Empire Blue it is then

You want New Performance Blue for your '64 SD, don't you??

Whoops !

I'll have a look at the tin I bought (thought it was Empire) it's definately on the lighter side of blue and I thought it looked too light after seeing paint jobs in the magazines.
Hard to tell as shades vary wildly in photos.

Thought I should have used a darker undercoat but the colour comes out very similar when srayed either on red lead or light grey undercoat.

It's going on now anyway, sod it...

The magazines are not always right you know

I used Agriline's Empire Blue on my New Performance Super Dexta and it looks good to me, it seems to be a lighter blue which apparently the later dexta's were.

Thanks for that comforting statement, no paint wasted now

Does your nosecone follow the line of the bonnet or is it cocked up at the front by the way ?

landowner wrote:Does your nosecone follow the line of the bonnet or is it cocked up at the front by the way ?

It should be straight. See
http://www.fordsontractorpages.nl/phpbb ... ght=bonnet

mine is straight on the top as I believe it should be.

However my original wasn't but i do believe a large object, or person, had been dropped on it causing it to go like that.!