I have decided to paint my car with a metal flake idea. Now I have never done this and am curious if this would work. I figure there should be some knowledgeable people on here who might have some tips on it. It says a black base, but I have read not to do that. I already have a champagne gold, I was curious if laying gold metal flakes over this would be worth my time or if it would just be a waste as the base will be such a light color.. any tips on metal flake painting would be greatly appreciated as well
Would like to hear this also.... Some old semi- metal flake (small flakes) factory Suzuki motorcycle paint I had bought years ago , had a silver base coat, flake in the translucent blue coat and clear top coat if I remember right. I think by varying the base and color coats, you can alter the final look,although that may only work with candy's
Do base coat in silver if you want cool colors and gold if you want warm. I always used silver flake and top coated with candy apple lacquer in whatever what was final color. I would guess that now you would top with urethane. Then I top coated with lacquer. Depending on the size of the flake it takes a few clear coats to cover it. Joe
Back in the day when you could get real Metalflake brand metal flake,like a B*** boat or Dune Buggy BIG Flakes you would use a green base for green flake, red base for red flake and so on. Now a days I think they use Silver Flake and top coat with whatever Candy color they chose.
Depends on how you do it and what look you are going for. I sprayed my first flake job today. HOK green flake over a dark green base. Color looks great, but I still need to sand/clear a couple more times. Some good info from HOK on application, etc... http://www.tcpglobal.com/hokpaint/techsheets/FLAKES.pdf
as rank amateur i think you will find that gold flake over the black base coat will take a lot of p***es to get good coverage and depth of color..... i recently sprayed my car with electric blue basecoat and then chunky electric blue flake and was able to achieve the depth of color that suited me......just remember to put a good number of coats of clear over the flake for the sanding process or you will get a lot of silver spots in your flake....ask me how i know.....then follow up with a lot more coats of clear to well and truly bury the flake and leave you with good depth after color sanding and polishing..... well thats what i did and it worked for me
Do a sprayout. Black base with gold flake should look black / chocolate until the light hits it, then pop bronze. Think youll be surprised how dark it looks, could be a great color. If you want a bright gold use a lighter base.
Ill use these shots of my 6 yr old daughters "ride" as an example. The frame is 3 coats of pink pearl shot over bare brushed aluminum. The fork is the same pearl shot over a black base and shown under halogen light. The black base turns it purple. Looks black until the sun hits it. I think your gold flake will turn bronze over a black base.
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