Bernhard said:Your point on paint is noted, but wasn’t it you who supplied the method of painting Polychromatic Blue :?:
http://www.nortonownersclub.org/noc-cha ... /958198253
There are all sorts of modern interpretations of older paints.
And as GP has indicated above.
But Nortons had their own enamelling tanks, and it would have just had a coat or 3 of enamel out of the factory.
As other posters on the NOC Forum have pointed out, and found colour matches for.
I painted an early 1950s dommie in Nortons earlier version of polychromatic blue, a much lighter shade than the Manxman's version. Someone familiar with this type of paint mixed it up for me, he said it was a pearl type of paint ( finely crushed glass ) to give that "polychromatic" prismatic look to it in different lights.
![Norton Manxman Norton Manxman](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fs21.postimg.org%2Fhlxjdavzb%2FTinku.jpg&hash=8ae9ec1da49ce5368008b477315ded4e)
Someone in the US found this was about an identical shade that Mercury painted some of their outboards back then.
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41JBY7X%2Bu1L.jpg
This ain't rocket science...
But we diverge from Manxmans.