New Convoy color samples...taste the rainbow

Cyan and purple don’t interest me too much. The orange though, I would buy in a heartbeat. I too would also like to see the orange brighter but would still buy it either way.

Why not all of them?

I know of at least three non-flashlight people who would love those colors.

Also put me down for three of the orange hosts and one each of the others.

Orange

Finally, purple! :slight_smile:

I agree it’d be nicer if it was a deeper darker shade though. Especially if it was a chromed finish like candy-apple red, only … grape. But I’m happy for pretty much any purple.

TK, most BLFers don’t like a super-smooth-and-shiny look on their flashlights. That’s probably a big reason why these aren’t. But, I agree with you that a nice dark (and a bit bluer) purple would actually look good with the super-smooth-and-shiny finish! :heart_eyes:

Story time. Like six months ago, Neal sent me that picture… or at least, a copy of it which had been recompressed several times and was a bit blurry. It had lost the intentional clues I put in to show it was photoshopped. Specifically, the pattern extends past the edge of the light… on purpose. But that was no longer visible.

Anyway, Neal was really excited. He told me he found something amazing, and asked if I knew who made it or how to get one.

So I crushed his dreams. … sigh.

Time passed.

Just last night, he sent me the picture again. Apparently he has been talking to manufacturers to see if anyone could actually make it look that way, and got one to at least agree to try.

Unsurprisingly, the method they mentioned was water-transfer printing. Because that’s probably the only way to actually do it. But this method is, in the end, just paint. It won’t stick or take abuse like anodizing. And it may need a clear coat to protect the paint. And it may run into issues with keeping the pattern aligned when threading parts together. Probably not great for thermal performance either.

But I thought I should at least mention it, because it seems Neal wants one of these badly enough to talk to manufacturers about it.

WOW!

Why not one of each?

I would be in for an orange one

I’d go for the Purple, minus the branding flat and a bit more aggressive knurling……but all three look very Cool! :+1:

Well, that exact swirl is probably not going to be possible in ink, dye, or paint, but a rainbow anodize should be possible with a little creative engineering. IIRC, the color of the anodize isn’t directly related to the anodizing itself. It is a separate dye added in a (somewhat) separate part of the process. (again… IIRC) So, a motivated person could use several different colors of dye applied with ink-jet in rapid succession, during the normal colorizing part of the anodizing process, to get a rainbow of colors in the finish. It would mean installing an ink-jet machine in place of the color process machine they use for ‘regular’ single-color dyes. And, a bit of R & D to figure out the best work flow to get decent results.

I’VE WANTED AN ORANGE S2+ FOR SO LONG NOW

I like them, will probably have to purchase one of each for the fam

I got a purple ’501 that I have fitted with a 365nm LED. FT has the hosts for that.

A purple S2+ would be tres kewl. I’s swap the pills/ZWB2s from my UV S2+es into those.

Not directly related to the OP.

But this thread got me thinking. Has anyone ever used thermochromic paint (or powder coat) on a flashlight? I’d buy an S2 with that.

There have been a couple of guys on here selling powder-coat service to members. It was found to be not quite as tough as HA-III hard anodizing.

The new colors are cool, but I can’t really say I’m excited about it. I already have 18650 tube lights in red, green, blue, silver, bare, grey, black, brass, and titanium. And some slightly shapelier ones in copper. And more colors in other battery types. So it’s still cool, but I’m kind of swimming in lights already.

Like the purple. I think a LOT of manufacturers overlook how popular optional colors are. Many lights that come in black only could boost sales with colors like Convoy offers.

I was thinking of colour changing paint.

If we’ve run out of anodizing choices maybe the next step is a Hypercolor S2.
Colour change let’s you know when you can hit Turbo again.

No white, no fun.

Is there no yellow? :smiley: