Tony,
The Legnano color isn't all that difficult to reproduce if one knows
what components to mix to achieve the proper topcoat. The basecoat
for Legnano green is silver metallic. No one paints bikes with
lacquer these days. Lacquer is not approiate for painting bicycles,
generally speaking. Even if a bike is painted with lacquer, touching
up with enamel will not cause the paint to wrinkle. You probably
touched up a bike painted with enamel by useing lacquer. Obviously as
you found out, that doen't work. Ditch the lacquer. Nobody paints
bikes with lacquer if they know what they're doing.
As I explained yesterday, not sure if you saw my post; but I listed
the components of Legano green in general. Toners vary. There is more
to it than just mixing the base and topcoats. Also touching up candy
colors is very difficult if you expect a perfect match. But still,
it's not rocket science; you just need the help of someone who knows
how to make these colors.
Brian Baylis
La Mesa, CA
Dear Legnano Friends :
I'm coming back to the subjet about the Legnano ( Green )
color,
after having second toughs..... and suddenly some horrible flash
back
memories came, about touching-up some scraches on my very nice (
new
and heavy ) Legnano on early 70's. The problem was not to match the original color; in my case ,
was
to find out , in " a hard way " that the kind of finish lacquers ( factory vs. the new one )
were
not compatible, and as consecuence the surface did wrikled all
over
.........it forced to re- paint the all frame...... I would never forget the fustration.....
So, I hope this kind of advice would help some body , with good
intentions in mind to restore some vintage Legnano
bycicle.........
Tony Bohorquez