Donkey Kong Blue?

[frog]

I'm having trouble finding a match to the blue that is on my Donkey Kong. I'm in the process of sanding and filling scrapes to repaint a cab. I went to Home Depot and Menard's to find a match, but the colors are a little different. I found two colors by Dutch Boy. One is a little dark and the other is light. Anyone have a suggestion?
If you had to choose between the light one or the dark one, what would you choose?

[csa3d]

Might want to check out this restoration project.  Paint color he used is linked to his color selection, but it's a fantastic build if you haven't seen it yet.

-csa

[fjl]

Can you chip a small piece of the paint and take it in so they can match it/mix colors and get you the right color?

[frog]

I thought about the paint chip thing right after I posted this. I walked away from the computer and remembered I broke a chunk off tonight while sanding.
I have another question. What do you use to fill scratches and holes on a Nintendo cabinet? It has some kind of plastic / formica on it. I read somewhere to use bondo. I tried that tonight. I have done bodywork before and the bondo works good, but it takes forever to sand. I used 180 cause I didn't want to break through the plastic / what ever. Somewhere someone said to use a plastic filler, which Menard's didn't have.
What is the best thing to use?
I'm starting to think a regular wood filer might work?

[fjl]

Since when is bondo hard to sand? Are you using only hand power to sand it? I'd look into an orbital sander if I was you. They do awesome work! I just used mine today on bondo to fix a "doh!" I did on my CP. Worked really nice.

[Hoopz]

http://www.rgvac.com/paints.asp

Just realized that Donkey Kong Blue doesn't have it showing.... 

[CheffoJeffo]

Since when is bondo hard to sand? Are you using only hand power to sand it? I'd look into an orbital sander if I was you.

Depends on the Bondo (the fibreglass filler cures pretty hard). And, yep, I would use an orbital palm sander to clean it up.

[Neilyboy]

I am really happy with the way my DK turned out (link csa3d posed up above there). I took in a chunk of paint from behind the rim of the coin door (paint that hadnt seen light in 20+ years and was hopefully more true than the paint that had been exposed to smoke, beer and smoke for 20+ years). Give it a shot get a quart of it and see how ya like it.

Neil

[kelemvor]

Definitely take a sample in.  Some stores have a thing that scans it and automatically figures out how to make a match.  You don't even have to use those 15 million cards they have with samples.

[frog]

I finally had a little time to work on this. I was hand (block) sanding everthing. I spent 4 hours Sunday night sanding without getting as far as I wanted to. Actually the cab I'm working on isn't that nice.

I got some sand paper for my orbital sander and that made a big difference. I don't like the way the orbital sands down the bondo, hard to make straight. If you use the sander to knock the bondo down and then block it out it works great. Saves allot of time.

I had another question, there was a link to Neiyboy's restore. I really like what he did. In case he doesn't see this again, this question is for everyone. When Neil was making the control panel he went with a Sanwa joystick, is there an advantage with this joystick? I found one on line today and it was actually cheaper than another joystick that I found that was supposed to be a Nintendo replacement, but used an adaptor plate to mount it. The Sanwa has a nice look to it and makes a version that fits the Nintendo control panel, but I wanted to know if it felt anything like a Nintendo Joystick? I like the idea of staying original, but every Nintendo 4 way joystick I've seen has problems.

If you would restore a Donkey Kong what joystick would you use?