Well, we finally got to flaking the roof of the lincoln tonight. After a shit load of work to get the roof perfect. We blocked it out tonight.As the snow bagan to fall. we pulled it into the toasty heated booth. shot it with 3 coats of black, 24 oz of rainbow flake, and three coats of clear. Turned the heat up on the booth to 160 degrees for 20 min. Tomorrow we will wet sand, put the candy red, then 10 coats of clear. Woohoo! Thanks to my buddy Ned, who can do some amazing paint. Spraying some black. Starting the flake. More flake. More flake and clear. The black is under there somewhere.
I'm not gonna argue with him. You should see the Cadillac he drives, and the lowriders that he paints. They are all amazing, paint is a mile deep. He buffs the walls of his booth every week. He takes a lot of pride in his workplace. Oh, and he did wear a mask when he started the flake. That pic is still the black. Even without a mask it is amazing on how well the booth pulls the overspray and fumes downward. He shot it with the booth doors open.
I'm as impressed by the booth as I am the flake. Sweet! Yeah, you can never have too much clear although, I would have opted for more flake. You really can never have too much flake!
if you dont keep your booth that clean when shooting flake ALL your cars will have flake in them. that shit gets everywhere.
looks nice! what was his reason for having the booth doors open??? and why 10 coats of clear? more clear isnt always what makes the paint look deep and there is no way you need that many coats to cover the flake
... yeah, actually you can have too much clear. Have you ever dealt with real bad "solvent-pop", you know the kind where the clear pops all the way to the basecoat? No fun ... sometimes piling it on isn't such a good idea.
He left the doors open because the booth was 100 degrees inside. I dont know the reason for the 10 coats of clear. Maybe he is including the clear that was shot with the flake. The guy knows what he is doing, He does a lot of high dollar lowriders for the show circuit. And his every day car is amazing. It's been on the road and parked outsid for two years and the paint still looks like new. I have done base/clear paint jobs before and have delt with solvent pop plenty of times. I just haven't done any flake work, so I can't be specific on why so much clear. I do know that alot of it gets wet sanded off. Well see with the finished results.
from my experience with a rainbow flake you need allot of clear becouse when you color sand you absolutely cannot hit the flake with the sandpaper or you will mess up the effect. It has to be verry deep. I have some experience with the stuff and sanded through one time no fun to try and blend out you will have a spot that doesnt color change. Ive seen allot of flake jobs were you can see were they hit the flake with sandpaper looks like doodoo. Just my.02
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