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What's the best way to buy enough paint to touch up a few stone chips ? Seems if you buy most available ones 90% will
quickly dry up and be wasted. Colour is Sunshine Silver for a 2002 NB .

I've used the Duplicolour ones without issue.

The main problem is the application rather than the paint itself (you can only do so much with a brush)
I recommend not using the brush they come with, either buy a proper paintbrush from a craft/hobby shop, or even use a wooden toothpick to dab it on (for small chips)


Just make sure the cap is on properly and it should last for a while.

I think you're better off just getting the professional touch-up guys to do it, you'll get a better colour match and result - it wont look like you've just dabbed it on like a typical liquid-paper application.

.. you can buy the OEM touch up paint from MX5Parts UK
I got SCA to mix the 22V for my car as they don't have a pre-mix aerosol spray can for that colour anymore. Seems a little darker and less shiny, but am not too fussed (maybe because I sprayed it on PU?)

Hi.
I buy a made up aerosol can from autobarn spray into the lid and use a fine craft paintbrush. When finished clean the lid with spraying thinners pop it back on ready for the next job.

Its easy- you take a sample and or the paint code to the professional paint supplier and they will supply you with what you want.If you do not know ask the locals who they use as a retail/ trade supplier. You can buy it pressure pack or small bottle or in a tin which you can thin and paint with a gun. Sometimes they check the mixed paint to the sample. I can get my paint sometimes while I wait or an hour or two later and its a local business .

Mr Morlock wrote:Its easy- you take a sample and the paint code to the professional paint supplier and they will supply you with what you want.

I'd do what mr morlock does.
My paint supplier charges me about $10 for 100ml (I'm a regular there)
Unfortunately for you op, light metallics are the hardest of all to match with a brush. Metallic silver paints are aluminum chips set in clear with a few tinters, such as a bit of black.
When spraying silver, if you paint wet coats it will be darker than if you paint dry coats. This is because on the wet coat the chips sink and settle a bit before the paint dries.
Brush touch-ups have a relatively long drying time, so touch-ups on silver often look darker.
If this happens for you let the paint settle for a few days, and then scoop a bit of the settled chips from the bottom of the can and wipe it inside the lid. Use this to lighten the touch-up colour as required.

Oh, and buy some acrylic thinners.

Thanks for that - a very technical explanation made easy to follow.
I've phoned a local paint place that will make up a spray can for $25 but feel a bit intimidated now