Wouldn't it be nice if Bianchi "Celeste" actually were just one single color ??????
As we all know , the color chosen by Bianchi to be "Celeste" changed , sometimes quite a bit , over the years and the decades .
And , by the way , I have a 1958 Alfa Romeo with original Alfa Romeo "celeste" paint . Also , I've seen another such car in person , and two or three others in photographs .
All of the automobiles were ALMOST the same color . The Alfa Romeo color "celeste" was a very very pale blue , with no green in it at all . It was a very very pale pale "sky blue" . Which , of course , is what the name refers to anyway !
I still think that the amount of green in Bianchi's "Celeste" makes it look like the kind of "tornado green" sky which makes people run for cover !!
And maybe that was why Bianchi used so much green in their sky-blue ?? Because it reminds others of the awesome uncontrollable power of the cyclone winds ??
Finally , last Spring , the robins were quite prolific . There were three or four nesting pairs of robins near my house . I picked up and saved the discarded pieces of egg shell . They make a lovely little still-life display , in a pretty little ashtray ( have to use ashtrays for something ! ) . Every egg was obviously a different color . And I was surprised at how much green there was in the color of those eggs !! So much for "robin's egg blue" !!
Raoul Delmare
Marysville Kansas U.S.A.
> Subject: [CR]Re: Paint touchup suggestions
>
> Re: scanning solutions. One time I bought some Gios blue touchup paint
from
> CC, sprayed out a sample panel, and had it scanned by one of the major
> automotive paint manufacturer's paint match system which simply could not
> come up with a color match despite the paint manufacturer having lots and
> lots of toners. I had done everything "right".
>
> Of course, Gios blue is one of the more difficult colors to match, but I
> have arrived a a fair approximation many times by tinting by eye.
>
> Wouldn't it be nice if major manufacturers that have a "signature" color,
> like Bianchi "Celeste", would make available a color mix formula for that
> color so that hundreds of painters around the world would be able to get
the
> color "right" and not have to more or less satisfactorily hand tint a
color
> match.
>
> Nah, that would be too easy.
>
> Hugh Enox
> La Honda (in the rain today)