So it Turns Out…

… that if you put purple paint on aluminium, it comes out pink

What can I say? I quite like them. Although the effect is … startling.

Not as startling as a disembowelled bunny bag, but getting there

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10 Responses to “So it Turns Out…”

  1. j Says:
    February 25, 2009 at 11:04 pm | Reply

    One could argue it’s an apposite colour for Queen of the South?

    For future reference, aluminium needs priming before painting, but the primers tend to be quite nasty.

  2. PaperBoy Says:
    February 25, 2009 at 11:41 pm | Reply

    They don’t *usually* paint signs these days – it’s more often a coloured film bonded to the substrate (which can also be plastic to discourage the theft of the signs by ne’er-do-wells for scrap) and then the text applied using stick on lettering.

    Of course D&G council couldn’t possibly be telling fibs because someone interchanged the digits of the RAL code could they…

  3. disgruntled Says:
    February 26, 2009 at 9:25 am | Reply

    J – you would think the contractors would know that, but it seems not…
    PaperBoy – fibs? you think so? cynical…

  4. 2whls3spds Says:
    February 26, 2009 at 11:05 am | Reply

    NICE! Same colour as my daughter’s beloved Volvo. I suspect incompentence on the part of the sign “painters” Also who allowed them to be installed without prior inspection and approval? I am sure the local taxpayers will get to foot the bill to correct the mistake.

    Aaron

  5. 2whls3spds Says:
    February 26, 2009 at 11:06 am | Reply

    oops…incompetence… pesky “e”

    Aaron

  6. disgruntled Says:
    February 26, 2009 at 11:11 am | Reply

    I think the contractors are paying to sort it out. But you do have to wonder that someone didn’t notice earlier. It’s not a subtle effect…

  7. PaperBoy Says:
    February 26, 2009 at 2:48 pm | Reply

    Here’s a colour chart – http://www.colourcode.net/ral.htm – not complete – but you can see how easy it is to get very wrong based on communicating only a code. I ordered a lot of silkscreen-printed items at work and the idiots managed to take the Pantone 286 blue from the order and apply Pantone quite-something-else green…

  8. Elizabeth Says:
    March 1, 2009 at 2:21 am | Reply

    Well at least the gays will feel welcome.

  9. disgruntled Says:
    March 1, 2009 at 9:51 am | Reply

    Maybe. May amount to false advertising though…

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