Has anyone ever had a paint store add a color to an existing paint to change it, I have a gallon of heavy flake silver that was used on a tag heuer air plane a few years back, The paint is still good and I dont want to throw it out. I would like to end up with a blue metalflake. It is a laquer base paint.
My first thought is to coat what you want w/ the heavy silver flake, let fully cure, then level it w/ 400-600 wetsand & coat it all w/ a blue candy until you get the depth you want. Let that flash & soak it all in the clear of your choice, wetsand it until it looks like a mirror & polish the snot out of it. But if it's Lacquer based, I'm not too sure on whether this is an option, or not. Somebody here on the board will add to, or set you/us straight on what can & can't be done in this situation. Best of luck with it.
if you can find a supplier for the same type and brand of paint , might try it....add some transparent blue toner...worse case, if it doesn't work, you're only out the toner. brandon
I'm not 100% sure, but I think there are still some lacquer candies still around. I do however know for a fact that laying a modern urethane candy over lacquer will lead to a sad face. The lacquer will shrink and wrinkle the candy and whatever clear is over it. As far as someone tinting the lacquer to blue, doubtful at best since I don't know of a current paint manufacturer selling lacquers. Unless you can find an old stogey totin bodyman that runs a paint store, you might be out of luck. My .02 - Start fresh and avoid the headaches with modern products that function 1000x better than lacquers.
Then it can most likely be tinted. However, it might be tough finding a paint store that doesn't carry it to mix it with their materials. You might be better off tinting it with candy on your own.
Save the silver flake for a job you would want to be silver flake. You probably wont be able to get it dark enough just by adding toner, you would have to add alot of toner to get past light blue, unless you want light blue. Your gona end up with two or three quarts of toner, pluss the gallon of silver flake, thats almost two gallons of paint before reducer. And who knows what else you may have to add to it to make it like you want. I would get a color picked out of a book that has a paint code, you never know when your gona need to reshoot somthing. I think your best bet is dont be messin with the silver at all.
^^^^^ pretty much what he said If you've ever mixed with silver base it takes a TON of other color to generate significant shift in tone. I'd be tempted to basecoat with what you got and topcoat in a candy to establish tone.
Either will work. I think you'll have better results with shooting the candy over it as these guys have mentioned.
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