Painting Apple hardware - what colour?

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨irdc@derp.foo⁩ to ⁨retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org⁩

I’ve recently acquired an Apple Macintosh Color Display. Sadly, it’s very yellowed (or rather, oranged). I was thinking about forgoing retrobrighting and just going for painting it. Anybody here who’s done that before? Any idea how I can most closely match Apple’s “platinum” colour?

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Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
PANTONE 14-0105 TPG

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- irdc@derp.foo ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I understood that to be the “Putty” colour of the Apple ][, not the “Platinum” colour Apple was supposedly using at this stage.
  
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  - IonicFrog@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Maybe this is helpful. imgur.com/a/TNpqz
    
    If you find any additional information please share it with the rest of us. I have a really yellowed AppleVision 850 in the project pile. It’s too big to redrobright and get an even result.
    
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SpeziSuchtel@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I would try to retrobright it and if you are not happy with the result, you can still paint it. You can also try to sunbright it: m.youtube.com/watch?v=8P1OVj0IcqY

Painting it requires sanding, a lot if masking and wears off over time if the device is in use. And it’s irreversible. Once the damage is done, theres no way back.

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- irdc@derp.foo ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I know. Sadly, there had been a (by now degraded) sticker on top of the monitor which left a clearly visible discolouration that I believe requires a fairly aggressive retrobright to get rid of, which I’m afraid might damage the plastics.
  
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davefischer@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The only time I’ve done something like that, I had a friend paint my 3B2 with leopard spots. Looks great.

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