I've always really liked the texture of the spray paint on Takahashi gear. It's not hammertone, but a speckled, almost splattered texture that is reasonably flat and quite tough. Does anyone know what this paint is, and if it can be bought in spray cans in various colours? I could get it professionally done, but I'd rather DIY.
The paint used in the back of ute's and panel vans is generally called chicken sh*t--ask your automotive paint dealer for it by name and he'll know exactly what your after.
there is a form of powdercoat that gives a textured surface. Dulux make it. Find an industrial coatings supplier and they will even have a color chart. I used to work for a paint shop that had the color cards...
Looks far more like a dual colour job with a random "splatter" finish than anything else mentioned.....it would be a commercial oven finish and thus (just) possibly a powdercoat, but I doubt very much.
Emulating it would be *** easy: I'd use a deep yellow "pinked" with a bit of sienna and then I'd partially overspray with some toned down chrome oxide green, finishing the effect by a "splatter" application of the CO green - this could all be done with a brush, using a stiff-haired brush or old toothbrush to apply the "splatter" overlay.
Have created an almost identical finish for maquettes I created for a Maritime Museum commission.
