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Thanks , I'm not sure when I'll get to it ,gotta find paint , I've read Dupli color intense blue pearl, is a close match,maybe in tone, but I've never seen a pearl schwinn, radiant blue is a blue candy over silver and I'm almost certian I read Schwinn used enamel , here's the number H114876
The Intense Pearl Blue is a very fine metallic blue and the shade of blue is a pretty much dead on, but it's a metallic and not a candy. Dupli-Color's Metalcast is a clear enamel that's tinted or a candy enamel. It's as close to the original as you'll get IMO and what you use for a silver base can give you different results that very slightly. I experimented with a multitude of aluminum base coats including the one made for the Metalcast paint and the result with that was awesome. It's a metallic silver base and it sure gave the red and blue candy a custom paint result. I loved it, but it sure didn't replicate Schwinn's Radiant or Opal colors. A few years ago I picked up a paint to match the finish on some parts for the machines we sell that we later end up refurbishing for the customers. I bought a can for myself and used it on a test underneath the Metalcast candy and I'm totally sold on it now. It's VHT's Flat Aluminum and it covers any color primer with one coat.
Here's my first test with VHT Flat Aluminum. One coat of the aluminum then waited about 10 minutes and then shot one coat of Metalcast. Waited 10 minutes and then shot another coat of Metalcast.