FTO AUSTRALIA

So the experiments have begun
What you see here is Purple Haze and Red Hot (it's redder in person) in satin. There's about 4 coats of the purple, and about 6 coats of the red - but I thinned it, which isn't needed.

With the purple I put flake in the last coat, which isn't pictured here. Got too dark in garage. I'll take a picture tomorrow before I do the pearl and clear.
With the red I put flake in from the base coat so there's loads of coats of flake.

I will be trying out the clear gloss and I've got some pearl to throw in it.


It's so easy to paint it's ridiculous.

Looks good, but any reason why you chose to spray a damaged bar?

Where did you get the supplies from?

I'm somewhat interested.

kiz wrote:Looks good, but any reason why you chose to spray a damaged bar?

Testing?

kiz wrote:Looks good, but any reason why you chose to spray a damaged bar?

95Xena wrote:experiments.

Looks nice

http://www.evolvedcoatings.com.au
And the flake and pearl from Ebay.


And yeah, testing. The bar was just sitting there waiting for me to fibreglass it

95Xena wrote:And yeah, testing. The bar was just sitting there waiting for me to fibreglass it

Oh ok, I guess no-one's going to care if you ruin a veilside front bar if it doesn't work out right

kiz wrote:

95Xena wrote:And yeah, testing. The bar was just sitting there waiting for me to fibreglass it

Oh ok, no-one's going to care if you ruin a veilside front bar

SEFA.

LOL I'm one of those few who loves the veilside kit

LOL

Thats my old bar, it has the worst fitment, it's a carmate copy.

The foglights don't even line up with the rheo holes, it doesn't line up with the guards and there's about a cm gap between the bonnet in the bar.

Dint in the middle at the top is from someone putting a towball, and bottom piece that's fucked from me bottoming out in a depression in the road at 160kmh

Is that purple the plans for your new car then? :p

bass_twitch wrote:Is that purple the plans for your new car then? :p

All testing is complete until I get more money to buy more paint. Want to try flake and pearl over black gloss rather than coloured satin. Also want to try some colour shift pearls to see how well they work.
As for how easy it scratches off ... not as easy as you'd think. And it gets harder to remove the longer you leave it. I've got long girly nails and I ran them across the door and didn't leave a mark.

I have every intention of using this stuff either on my car or bass_twitch's when I get it I love the idea of being able to paint my car myself for a grand ... and if I don't like it I can just peel it off. Plus, it seems like everyone wants to stick to the 'proper' FTO colours, and that's just not how I roll

will be intersting to see when you paint your fto!
i think purple would look good.

adzski wrote:will be intersting to see when you paint your fto!
i think purple would look good.

Reminds me Foulz's car..

Nice job, looks professionally done. I'm impressed.
May make me want to do this to the Vectra.

rock_it wrote:

adzski wrote:will be intersting to see when you paint your fto!
i think purple would look good.

Reminds me Foulz's car..

Foulz's car?

Dont think I've seen it? Have you got a picture or a link?

adzski wrote:
Foulz's car?

Dont think I've seen it? Have you got a picture or a link?

Yeah, I'd like to see it too



The purple surprised me. I thought it was gonna be too 'in your face'. But it's heaps darker than it looks in the photos.

95Xena wrote:LOL I'm one of those few who loves the veilside kit

Marry me.

I've bought my kit ages ago when it was on kickstarter but haven't decided to paint my car yet haha!

Love the flake idea, i'll have to keep that in mind