Customs A mad man's fruits of experimenting -

I smell a future tech week thread...

 

Amazing! Love it!

Bob

 

Thanks. Pretty much read the whole thread. Learned a couple things.

Some of the most beautiful cars I've seen (imo) were painted in very very dark colors. I think it's neat when you see a car in the evening or at night and think it's black. Then you see the street lights reflect off of it and realize that it's not black, but a super dark navy blue (my favorite I think) or a super dark burgundy or something similar. But I think most of those have been straight colors. This is a different animal, and acts differently. I've heard about the candy black in recent times, but this is the first I've seen it in action. Cool stuff.

Thanks for the show 'n' tell, and good luck.

 

I have some of those. They are old church key can openers.

 

Thanks for keeping in touch . Looking forward to the info

I could do that , could be worth a few laughs

Thanks me too

It been fun and frustrating just the same, but I feet it was worth it . Probably the coolest thing I've seen as far as paint goes

I tried a similar approach on two cans. One went well the other was a train wreck lol

 

That looks great, beautiful color.

 

God that looks cool... Just awesome.

 

So yesterday im outside taking those pics and watching the sun rise on the paint .
This might appear strange to some folk I suppose especially because it was so cold. My neighbor pulls in and we exchange the customary greetings. He says "what the hell are you doing NOW?" So I tell him, Taking pictures of this fender as the sun comes up. ( with the same tone but what the hell is wrong with that ) He says "why ?"

I tell him "to catch the change from black to red." He says "what do you mean?" I say "this fender is black" as we are all looking at a candy red fender. He looks at me and say "no it's not - it's red!" Then I explain the deal and he says "it's way to early for this - i need my coffee & you are a mad man " and off he goes.

 

seems to go with the old additive... if i have to explain... well you know the rest.

 

Looks great, love the shade of red.

Can you make me a black that flops green? ( I like green)

Godspeed
MrC.

 

Flop green ? Yep, tried a few greens.
Needs to be really bright yellowish green like summits sour apple to flop green.
I was going to try the atomic antifreeze or acid rain but changed my mind on chasing green
Darker greens flop sort of a tealish purple.
The black toner I used is built of of blue so yellow and blue make green right
The greens I tried don't flop like the red - nothing flopped like that red.

 

I usually don't particularly care for the "flop" paints, but your color is very intriguing. I like it a lot.

 

Here's some 6:00 pm sun for Friday nights crew
Missed the high noon shots.

I rotated the pic it's standing on end

 

I'll bet you could do a blue flop version of this. Hide some charcoal colored pearl in there somewhere too. On topic, I'm going round and round and round trying to get a pearl yellow that has no "green values" for a very picky customer. White pearl fades a bright yellow to something akin to a 52 Chevy OEM color. My "home run" was HOK KBC gold over his yellow, but just 2 reduced coats. Still "too green" for him but I thought it was stunning. Yellow is a green color value as it is.


**** me, this experimenting is contagious and I got "infected" through the net...

 

Haha

I did a blue version - it is bad *** and was actually in the running until I found the red.
I did 4-5 different blues too.
Flop or change with the blues i used isn't as dramatic but it sure is cool . The slighted different base color makes a big difference

Two days ago I grabbed the metal specs in blue to try that .
I'm going to do blue once more just to see ,