Leyland Car Owners - Front Indicators being repainted

Nick Kounelis
: I bought tamiya I think. ...do you know that was nearly 2 years ago...
: Gee it all takes time to do a nice job
: Stuart Brown
: Too many other things interrupting personal car building!
: Greg Bryant
: It's my way of escape, my wife was already saying what about doing your fathers car next .
: I will need along break for now.
: Stuart Brown
: Greg Bryant I could build them all the time... Life just gets in the way.
: Love I am getting to do and help others in the meantime though
: Nick Kounelis
: Hi Guys I just looked in the shed with the paint was VHT night shades red.
: Adrian Spencer
: How do you think they will handle the sunlight. What I have seen the plastic not good
: Nick Kounelis
: I am not sure Adrian Spencer.
: However the UV stabilisers in current paints especially VHT which is American based and not the cheapest in prices would mean that it would be better than what lucas and then the Taiwan copies that followed that are half as old but fade more!
: Stuart Brown
: The lenses will remain in good condition if the correct plastics were used in the manufacture.
: Wehn we redid them, a lot of research was done to ensure it was the right material.
: Some of the other batches including some of the Tiwan ones used inferior materials which faded/went milky.
: Some of the orange fades from time to time and it is fairly easy to touch up the orange. With an airbrush you can indeed do it without disassembly of the indicators.
: Andrew Klute
: Have these been painted from the inside or outside

: Steve Bysouth
: Surely on the inside !?!?!
: Stuart Brown
: Andrew Klute
: Just out of interest are the vic club still doing the lenses fully painted and assembled or are you only able to buy them in pieces and assemble your self
: Stuart Brown
: They are in a kit, without the metal bits, unpainted and with the backplate unchromed I believe, like Greg started with
: Andrew Klute Oh you used to be qble to buy them already to go minus screw in studs when i painted some up many years ago I painted them from the inside with a lens die that came in a nail polish type bottleamd i think it was just called lens die
: Andrew Klute
: Just found acouple of dried up bottles of the lens sieni used to use still in the shed all dried up of course after 20 plus years does any one know if tou can still buy this tyoe

Stuart Brown
: There are some available but many of them are too much of a bright orange.
: The model colours seem very close.
: When we did them in the late 80s Lucas was still located in Melbourne and we bought the colour directly from them - the original stuff - which was used up at the time as all the ones sold from that batch were fully assembled and just missing bulb holders and fitting screws ( easily retrieved from broken ones)
: Greg Bryant
: Tony De Luca had a tint formula and I had a 500 ml tin but tossed it out years ago .
: I may still have paperwork.
: Marcus Kneebone
: The vic club searched in vain for a painting volunteer for years.
: Alas we were always left to sell them unprepared.

Leyland P76 Owners 2006

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Gregs Repaint of New Front indicators

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