Shades of gray.....

One thing though, it's pretty soft for about a month w/o hardener. You can handle it after 24 hours w/ no problems, but it scratches real easy 'til it's fully cured.

Jeff

I, too, just completed painting my 1946 2N...well, I gotta re-do the hood after it fell on the barn floor...dang it...but I, also, used BPS Massey-Ferguson Gray from Tractor Supply. I went through the "what is the right color" mode for a while and finally figured that 1) It's going to be a work tractor...a beautiful one...but a work tractor, so it's going to get scraped and rubbed and gas spilled (I'll try not)...so I didn't want to do a "trailer queen" paint job on her and figured enamel to be the best all around paint for my purposes, and 2) the BPS Gray is beautiful...I don't know if it's dead-on, but it sure is close to original, and 3) my research seems to find that there were variations on the gray paint that Mr. Ford put on those tractors, so it didn't seem worth it for me to fret so much over it. If you're restoring for show purposes...you may wish to go otherwise.

For what it's worth, I used the can paint through a sprayer with hardener (Valspar/BPS hardener from TSC)and thinned a bit with Valspar's Naptha...just like it says in the instructions...and I'm VERY pleased with the results.

Good luck!

Randy2N

I have to drive 100 miles to get to a TSC (they are our only BPS outlet in this state) and I did it last week to get more of it. Your mileage may vary. I am sure the factory did not use infrared measuring rays to match all their paint- and the shades probably varied a lot. All Model A Ford engines were painted "Ford Green", for example, and there are lots of variations on that color. So, there you go....

Jeb

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