Any pics- "Blue Paint with flattened clear"

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Last year I shot our Bonneville car with Imron. They have a few different sheens you can buy it in... I chose flat.

 

Oh brother. Gimme a break

They are waiting for you over at Ford Barn

 

Ditto

 

All of the cars I have done have been clear coated with ppg flex and flat. I've done at least a dozen this way. The only one I had any problem with was the 48 Ford suburban and that was a combo of problems (the truck hates me)

Yes you get what you get when you spray it...no buffing. It is forgiving as far as dust goes. It may be there but it doesn't show.

Here's a better pic of the Ford suburban and Mike's 32.

Clark

 

Sprayed correctly it will look excellent and you can do it the easy way.
If the car will be garaged, not parked outside all the time (avoiding oxidation), you can add flattener to a good single stage paint. It is crucial that all your paint be mixed at the same time and the car should be ***embled before painting. Spray some test panels to perfect your paint/flattener ratio and make a note of the final ratio for future reference. Avoid water spots like the plague. Wash with a good car wash soap and blow dry, or dry with a chamois. I've been doing this for a LONG time. Good luck and happy days

 

I love flattened look, but will have shiny on all my cars, who knows..

Only thing for me is that I feel it would be to much upkeep and repairs would be on the same line as a candy job a PITA...Plus if your mixing around to find your right shade are you ever going to do a perfect color match if say you damage a panel a few years down the road. What about scratches?

 

If you're mixing color top coat with primer use an etch or primer underneath, adding top coat to primer will take out it's etch properties.
For the gloss'ers mix some clear in your last coats of color, Maybe 20-30% makes it easier to polish, less swirl marks and gives a bit of depth.

 

Painted my '37 Ford Washington Blue basecoat with flat clear coat. Buy the flat clear, much better than trying to add flattener and more uniform.

 

Dan,

Any info on this one? I'd love to know the color and the process used to flatten it...

 

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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.

This is one of the best comebacks I have ever seen, I have to remember that one.


I think what some guys don't get is, some of us WANT our cars to be not shiny. It would be a pretty dull hobby if every car looked exactly the same. I'm building a second roadster right now, and it will be satin too. I get more compliments on my satin black 27 than I ever got on my shiney rides.

Don
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Yes, I was able to find the HAMB link that I saved this from. It was done with PPG flex n flat. The link even gives the color-you owe me

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=334544&highlight=indigo+vw

Hope this helps a little

Dan

 

A VW color?! That's a darned shame!

But, VW or not, it's still a beautiful shade, and a great paint job. I still might have to think about it for one of my trucks. Trucks aren't supposed to be shiny.

Thanks for the help Dan!

 

One of several flat painted vehicles at a car show this past Saturday. Ron

 

Seabeecmc....opinions can be like masterbation too!
Clark

 

from OSW last year,don´t know what or how,but it´s perfect flat bluemet.

 

proartguy is correct. Tinted primer was very common, in southern cal in the 60's, usally done with a metalflake top...

 

For what its worth (**** all) I really like the 'dull old enamel' look. For a car that is built with slightly weathered chrome and an interior that isn't brand new etc, I guess a budget car, it can look more like a well worn but well kept original rather than a half ***ed rebuild...

 

A little tip when it comes to satin colors that I have been using is that some of the higher end paints have a formula for the lower body cladding on Mercedes Benz cars. It is a flexible clear designed to go over the base coat and will give a satin finish that is repeatable so if you ever have to do a repair you will not have to mess with flatening agent and hope it comes out right. It is a little expensive but worth it in the end.

 

For what it's worth, someone on here on a different thread said they waxed their satin finish and it didn't make it look shiny or streaked. That surprised me, but the one thing that was bothering me about the satin on my 27 is that I had no protection on it and water spots formed easily and bug splatters were tough to remove sometimes. So the other night we tried some Mequires 2000 wax on my car and it came out great. It brought it back to the sheen it had when I originally sprayed it, and the microfiber cloths kept getting some black on them..........I guess it was removing the dead top layer. My car looked great and even the chrome shined like I have never seen it from that Mequires stuff.

You might do what I did, and test it on an incon****uous spot first (I did my headlights first, then the grille shell) to make sure it works ok on your finish. I feel I am going to get a lot more protection now and dirt should be easier to remove. Just thought I would interject this info.

Don

 

the color is prefect, what's the color used....looking to paint my 52 chevy truck

 

Not trying to hijack this thread, but I would love to see pics of a flattened copper or bronze.

I like the blue as well, esp the light metallics.

 

Look at post #8 on page 1 of this thread.

 

This one

 

Wow, the color in that shot is insane! Was that photoshopped?

I was talking to the paint guy at NAPA earlier today about a temporary paint that I could run until I get my *** in gear and block out my car. We decided on using an straight acrylic with flattening agent. This way I can do it in one shot, spend less than $100 on a gallon of "ready to shoot" paint, and won't break down in tears when it comes time to sand it all down. That, and I have to come up with $3000+ to re-chrome my car. So shiny paint can wait.

I thought about going with the Dupli-color paint shop "Midnight blue" and top coating it with their "matte finish" clear, but they only sell that in quarts. In the end it would be more $$$ and work.

 

Wow love it

 

Funny my desoto came in blue - the round fender style like the shoebox looks pretty good - if I only had time to get this car going ...

 

It might be OFF TOPIC for this forum but almost any Lincoln is ON TOPIC for me. I dig it! (I might change to skinny whitewalls if it was mine though.)

Also, I'l going to use Hot Rod Flatz on my car when I get around to it, I've had good luck
with it.

Thats weird, I posted about the Lincolns and then there was a pic of a blue '50
DeSoto right above it. Another one of my ON TOPICS. Synchronicity.

 

do you know what hot rod flat he used ?