Art & Inspiration Candy, Lace, Flake, Flames... wanna see WILD custom paint...

The roof and wheels on my 63 vair

 

going to clear over the patina for this summer to cruise. come december it will be torn down for complete paintjob on the bottom half

 

Beautiful. Any pictures of the whole car.

 

Here are all the flaked parts installed on the car now:

 

Here is a skull and crossbones lace scheme:

 

skulls with lace, nice. I cant get enough of this stuff.

 

Some more angles:

 

Thanks El Brujo, as the flake was a deeper red, and didn't want to darken it any more; therefore I inter-coated after the candy stage. I also was just going for a lighter application of the flake... More of a added sparkle effect than the full on explosion (and coverage) of flake like some of these killer paint jobs on here. Just getting a feel for how this felt shooting and not going crazy on this stuff in case I messed it up (my daily driver and didn't want to lose another day or 2, as a CNC CPU issue cost me a day already on the trailing arm build, and i'm dying to see how this upgrade feels). I will be Flaking the roof later, and that will be more along the lines of how you mentioned. I'm going to play with some scrap materials for some more practice and will pick your brains again if I have any questions. You guys rock, thanks again! Also I will try the grounding trick next time as I had a few "stand up" flakes.

 

From earlier this spring at the Toronto Motorama.

 

.....one more:

 

Some novice work from myself. I've just finished up painting a friends fishing boat and decided to do something a little different under the two forward hatches. Should pop nicely out in the sun on open water.

 

@tomkelly.... what did you use to get the fogging around the edge of the panels? Is that airbrush work? Your buddy will be happy with the personal treatment. ...

 

No, I don't own an air brush. I just set my mini spray gun pattern as small as it will go and am gentle on the trigger while I run around all the edges.
The dark edges are just candy black, I trace the gun around the edges a few times until I have the shade I want.

 

Looks like the late 60s through 70s psychedelic paint is coming back into fashion. Bring it on!

 

Here's my seats in flake

 

Silver Glowble and topped with Mirra.
This moped was built 1984/85 and was on Swedish "Hot rod Show 1985" in Skärholmen Stockholm. After the show it was put away in an attic for 30 years. Still in "show condition" after three decades!
The only new for 2015 is the air in tires..........

 

Sorry........ Could not post pictures......I Will try later.....

 

Silver Glowble and topped with Mirra.
This moped was built 1984/85 and was on Swedish "Hot rod Show 1985" in Skärholmen Stockholm. After the show it was put away in an attic for 30 years. Still in "show condition" after three decades!
The only new for 2015 is the air in tires..........

 

Painted the roof on tin cans 62 t bird.

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Full pics when its done!

 

aluminum body panels off a 60s dragster

 

Couple more pictures

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Insane as usual.Elspock the FED is a jaw dropper

 

1962 ford fairlane. came in just for flaked out top but made the owner an offer he couldnt refuse. so he let do some panels and lace in black kandy

 

thanks homie appreciate that

 

Elspock your work is spectacular. I'm hoping to come see you this summer!

 

thanks brotha! where you from? i just picked up a 54 belair 4dr for me. thats gonna get the disco ball treatment this week hopefully