Or you can ask at the paint supplier for their colour swatches and match it by eye. I put a quality (doesn't yellow) semi gloss clear coat over the base colour to aid cleaning and to protect the base coat. It came up very well.
Latest update...... Cross-referenced the motorcycle colour code 944, BMW Dark Ferro Metallic, with a car code of 488. With this BMW code, my local paint guy was able to mix some up for me in cellulose Hopefully the end results will be worth all the research......
Brodie,
did you consider Powder coating....what you think is the better way as I will do mine as well....spraying or powder coating...
Anybody else got any experience....