Let's see the Heavy Metal Flake Paint Jobs

SwitchBlade, did you use a black basecoat to assure complete coverage?

 

oksy here is my friends camin we did a while ago

 

my tempest

 

Wifes car, 2 lbs of Lil Daddy Roth Speedball over HOK Orion Silver:


My Ranchero, 2 cans Ol School aqua over Montana base:

 

Nope, used Toreador Red base on the 53, and silver base on the roof of the 64. The shoebox did use a black base I believe.

 

Here are a couple of the roof of my '57 Ranchero. Was my first flake job and turned out looking ok. I used Kustom shop .015 lime green flake over an orion silver base. Then shot HOK organic green candy over that. Killer d did the striping and he really knows how to make a bad painter look good.

 

good thread......deserves a little bumpy bump

 

My Wife's Bird




Butch Lynch Painted Tank www.unclebitchen.com

 

Hey 'flakers....have a question that maybe some of you could help answer....
When doing a 'flake job with different colored panels and/or fine lines....what's are the basic steps?
Do ya lay down the base, then the 'flake, clear it, sand it smooth.....then lay out your masking???? Do ya use a basecoat/clearcoat, then 'flake....or 'flake right on the base?
Some of these 'flake jobs in multicolors and panels with lace have gotta have alot of paint on 'em (mils).....
The next car I build will get some 'flake.....and I'm going need all the help I can find.....he he.....

The cars posted above are absolutely stunning!

 

Not quite sure what you want to do, but for lace / panel paint jobs you spray a metallic base, mainly either gold or silver, flake it with either gold or silver flake, clear so the flake is covered and smooth, let it cure and completely dry, then wetsand, mask, and spray candy over it in whatever pattern you want. If you don't let the clear dry, it will react with the candy and make your paintjob wrinkle, and if you don't cover the flake with enough clear and sand it down smooth, you can't mask it off well, and the candy will bleed through. Hope this helps.

 

Here's my 59. Not heavy metal (dude) flake, but it is flakey



not a car, but my bass is heavily flaked, but not heavy metal

 

Both of those should look real nice this saturday.

 

Old School Flake .015 Lime Green (2 pics)

 

Justin...any more pics of the last one??? I'll put it below.

Heres a random one I got off the net...
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Fellow HAMB'er Williesplace, and Maryjane, his 61..The Blue one is an earlier incarnation of the same car.












Random Chevy seen at Paso

 

Thanks fellas. Donnie did the flake job. He could answer these questions better than I could, but I'll give it a shot.

It is colored flake. I don't remember what the exact color is called. I think the basecoat was a similar color to the flake itself(light mintish blue, almost seafoam). The flake is so heavy, you can't really see the basecoat. The fogged edges are a custom candy that Donnie made(candy Turquois tinted with a little Blue I think). The pinstripe in the fog was made with a tape line, so its the flake color.

Here's a closeup "macro" shot with my digital.

 

Might've had one that was an extreme closeup of the paint, but nothing shoing anymore of the car....

 

DAMN, i love the blue!

 

That's cool, post it up...wanna check it out

 

flaked base on the instrument is dyno~

 

Here tis....get my pm?

 

i don't recognize the name... but i may own/have purchased his car. pm me? thanks~

 

wow. KILLER.

 

groucho what did you use for a base coat color?