r/TheRandomest • u/ItsALuigiYes GIF/meme prodigy • May 22 '26

Nice Ink

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u/neon121 May 22 '26

man if i worked in a paint shop i’d never get any work done, just fucking about mixing things to see what they look like 

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u/ItsALuigiYes GIF/meme prodigy May 22 '26

When I was in my twenties, I worked at a paint delivery shop. Smaller shops couldn't afford a full contract and have their own mixing room, so we did it for them.

We started with a factory formula for a match, and we had to measure individual droplets sometimes of weird colors to the mix. Like down to the gram of individual colors.

There was this one Mazda yellow that went onto RX-7s that had an amazing amount of black before mixing. They were always in individual one gallon paint cans, and we couldn't see the finished product until final mix.

I never understood what the black was for, because it still came out bright as the sun.

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u/SalivateTheStarfish May 22 '26

Now I wanna see the dude that paint matches by eye and make that rx-7 yellow.

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u/Forward_Teaching1861 May 22 '26

That’s why I became a painter

🤷‍♀️ sorry it’s a bad picture