here is the color for my car, i decided to grab a old panel while i was primering to play with, i gave it a real quicky sand to give it some tooth. i did no even try to get anything straight or feather since it is just a test panel.

here is the primer on with 1/2 covered in my base coat oriental blue hok

 

yes i am outside at this point the car is inside drying. here is some shots of the candy on they entire panel. and last one is with a quicky clear coat. remeber this is a test panel to see color don;t care that it fish eyed and orange peeled.

 

here is the cleared panle 4 coats of candy and 3 coats of clear. all quicky layers i did let it flash. it may be easier to see without the plastic behind it now.

 

nice color man i wanna see the whole car!

 

what exactly is candy paint?

 

candy is in intercoat tinted clear coat. so for a base/clear paint job it ends up being base candy clear 3 stages. candy gives it a deeper look with color in it. look at candie91z's car his is candy red. there is another name for it but it is a red.

you can also see the diffrence in the first pic that blue is the base, at that point i could of cleared it to give it shine, i went on to candy and then clear you can see how much deeper it is.

i can;t wait to put it on the entire car. mine will be the left side the darker blue. depending on what your base it the color affect changes that is why i split the panel.

 

your base is what determines the color...your number of tinted clear layers is what determines the overall shade and depth.

use heavy metallics to sparkle and shift colors. use flakes/pearls and otherwise to add prismatic depths. typically why gold and silver are used for base coats as they offer the most depth and shift of any colors you could choose.

looking good....

 

Nice color choice man. I was going to use a blue very similar to that just slighlty darker but because my car was white and still in oiriginal paint when i did it I stuck with the white so I didn't have to do the engine compartment. That is one sweet color you have me drooling

 

Looks good man. How so far did all your paint cost u.

 

every thing including one extra gun for clearing 1300.00 the gun was only 140.00 devilbis good deal. that is epoxy primer, 2k, base , candy , and clear, and some cleaners wax n grease remover and gun cleaner (thinnner).

could of went with the hok kbc line which mimick candy but i figured what the hell. might as well do the entire thing.

 

better choice....just practice a bit on some test pannels. you'll get it. also work with drying time between layers as that can affect it as well. if you want to be really tricky and had a extra gun around you could do pearl coats in between the coats of candy. makes an excellent effect.

 

And watch out for the DIRT!

 

how is the pearl shot is that just mixed in a clear? i was going to ask you about the blue pearl in your cars finish. I do have 2 guns and a touch up gun.

Spdfrk: test panel was done outside the car won't be done without proper booth set up.

 

I believe Pearl is added on after the basecoat, or in your case you could do it inbetween the candy coats like Kandied said.

 

hok has dry pearls i wonder how that would work if i mixed in with the candy in one gun and just candy in other gun... or put in every coat....... so many options so little knowledge

 

you have to play with it...unfortunately there is no real rule book to painting. that's the fun of it too.

 

would there be a better color choice for the pearls? say a red or green i would expect a blue would not give much of an effect as everything else is blue. i don;t want to get to purple either.

 

There are many different colors of pearls. The red pearl over your blue would probably create a purple effect (trying to think back to my kindergarten days ). But a white pearl would probably look real nice, it creates a silvery effect... that is what I have on my car.

 

white pearl or gold would be nice, small silver metal flake if your into that also...

 

the kind you can eat

 

Its especially good on hot sunny days when its melting :drool:

 

leave it to the canadians

lol

 

hahah funny freak lol...........sorry i got a sence of humor
lol lookin good

 

have you tried taking out the metallic/pearl in the paint...or at least not going as strong. it adds more depth and shine without it. i'm seriously thinking of getting rid of the metallic as much as possible in my next color.

something more like this...



it's hard but you'll notice the shadowing effect with the crisp corners of the metal, this won't happen as much the more metallic/pearl you add.

 

Here have a few more Better pic's of that car.

http://www.hotrodscustomstuff.com/WeissCamaro-01.html

 

sweet color i like it, my metalic is already in the can comes that way. the panle i painted looks alot like that color i have to take it into the sun and see what it will look like.


jeff

 

is that santa driving the car? WHERES THE REINDEER!!!!! HUH!!?!?!