Any pics- "Blue Paint with flattened clear"

I think i'd like to paint my shoebox ford; a blue color with flattened clear.

If you went this route-- What blue color did you use ?
Any pics?


P.S I wrote to one dude on HAMB -he did a blue color from KIA with flattened clear coat. Anyone else out there ?

 

"Back in the day" the cool cars were shiny.

 

Ditto....

 

Well this is today guys,the look works for me and the flattened look is "forgiving" --so it's a possible way to go for me.

 

Our `49 chevy basecoat flattened

 

Exactly why mine is now flattened. I get nothing but compliments on how different the paint looks. I will admit I would really like a shiny paint job, but on these cars with the big flat sides like our shoeboxes you had better have a perfect smooth body or it looks like hell with the ripples from not so perfect bodywork and 60 years of door banging. I don't want to spend another five thousand on getting it perfect. My flattened paint really turned out to look more like a satin finish than flat.
Lots of sanding the shiny paint down and several coats of clear with flatner added and spraying in a paintbooth by someone with experience worked for me.

 

I used Hot Rod Flatz Steel Blue on my van.

 

Just got another close up of my paint this morning (see attached)

 

Harley Davidson has a denim blue....
Looks nice, but a pain in the **** to clean...as in can't use soap and water.
Might want to look it up for color though...
JMHO,
Cheers.........

 

I know they use to be shinny, but how can you argue with a 49 that looks like that??!!! Sweet truck!

 

I love the satin look.
Just painted my Sedan with SEM Hot Rod Black and the sheen came out perfect with
no clear coat.
So far everyone loves it.

 

O/T CAR ALERT!!!!!!
Anyways, here's a 77 Lincoln Mark V I did about 8 years ago. Factory metallic blue with flat clear. The metallic really popped in the sun, and the finish has held up great. We used Dupont products and am doing a 57 Chev truck the same way right now, only in black. The sheen is perfect.....

 

I believe this has flat clear on it...

 

HOK true blue w/a flat clear

 

I guess I'm just to old. Someone will have to explain WHY? anyone would want flat paint instead of shiny. The only way to make flat paint look dumber is to pinstripe it. Opining, Ron

 

If you are still *****ing about flat paint, look back up at the cars in posts 13 and 14. Those cars look good, period. It's not the chalky flat black rattle can paint job you are picturing in your head.

 

Somehow I was of the understanding that this is a traditional forum. That said, I can almost understand a flat gray in an attempt to replicate the primered cars from back in the day. Back then, in your heart, you knew the primer was temporary only until you could apply a decent (shiny) paint job. Primer top coat being temporary you'd never letter or pinstripe it. Still opining, Ron

 

The hamb police really ruin it for me sometimes

 

I used Matrix clear with flattner, was hard to keep the parts the same sheen, i didnt paint it all at once.

 

Come on - really?!?!? How can you not like the finish on this car??

....for the satin haters that is.

 

This was taken at the Charlotte Goodguys show last year. I know the owner is a HAMBer but I cant remember his name. Its a really nice flat metallic blue.

 

If you're using just basecoat add about 25% hardener -this will make it stonechip resistant and some hardeners have UV protection. Also this will help against water marks and make it easier to wash. The hardener can cause the flake to mottle a bit so cross-coat it before it flashes off (dries) so the flake melts in and sits evenly. Matt 2k clear is the best option. you can wash it and also do flake and kustom stuff underneath, and get an even finish. The best paint companies have it ready made with consistency from can to can, DuPont, Standox. Standox is the best.

 

I believe that's S****'s Wife's truck.

 

this is my girlfriends pontiac when she bought it it was nice and shiney about 2 weeks later it went flat ive waxed, buffed, scrubbed and everything else tryin to get it back where it was but it just keeps gettin flatter
this is how it looked the day she bought it

 

The first thing it screams to me is "get a hood"...

 

flat or shiney, i don't give a ****, i just want to see more pics of this car!!

 

Definately... more pics...

 

Found this Plymouth picture on Google Images I keep it around for inspiration! Looks flattened to me!

 

here's one that I've come across... sold me on the flat blue

 

Now post a pic of the shiny red one that is build just like the flat blue one. No comparison.

As cool as it is, flattened paint is Neo-Traditional. There is a large Neo-Traditional contingent on the HAMB. Very few of us who were at car shows and the drags in the '50-'60s like the flattened look. If you need to hide poor body work, do primer spots until you can make it right. Painting a car that needs body work is dumb.