Sam,
Touch up paint for a modern repaint seems to be a waste of time and paint. The paint we use is catalyzed and it's pointless to supply paint like that to a customer in my opinion. First, even using the exact paint that was used on the bike, once brush touched as opposed to spraying will make a trememdous difference in the resulting color; especially if you make colors the way I do by layering colors and numerous other tricks I will not reveal. Better for the customer to seek out nail polish or model paint and maintain the paintjob until it needs it again. Occassionally I touch up things here I've painted or are original finishes, but it's pricey and when using custom mixed exotic colors it is always difficult at best if you expect the damage to be 100% undetectable. I've come close a few times (like on Rex Gebharts' Masi track bike some of you saw over the weekend in Pasadena, I'm sure most people had no idea that paint had been worked on) but it is always a challange. That's how I do it, but my painting processes differ from those of most painters.
Brian Baylis
La Mesa, CA
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> The name of a paint is useless you need the code. You can go to your local
> paint supplier look in the yellow pages under auto paint supplier or go to a
> local body shop that sprays PPG they have a book with color chips with a
> circle out of the center you match yours up and get the formula. You will
> need single stage base coat clear coat is useless as touch up. Most modern
> paints are catalyzed it is not effective to buy in small quantities. If
> Brian or Jim are reading this how to you get around the stuff drying out as a
> touch up I know the auto dealers don't use the same paint in the touch up
> bottles as they spray on the cars. Sam D.