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.
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Kill room all set up :)
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Taz's old VS bar
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Door I bought from Ebay. Has a couple of little paint dings and scratches
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purple side done
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Door after 2 coats. Couldn't reach a few places LOL
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Unpainted side after 2 coats
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Close up of flake. I now have nice coloured tubs :)
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
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
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Door before gloss and pearl.
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Door before gloss and pearl. It has flake you just can't see it in the picture.
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Bar before gloss and pearl. The flake is very visible in the sun. You can also see that the flake is darker than the paint by the darker flecks
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Bar before gloss and pearl.
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Bar after gloss and pearl. That's about 2 coats of clear and 3 coats of clear plus midnight violet candy pearl.
adzski wrote:will be intersting to see when you paint your fto!
i think purple would look good.
Reminds me Foulz's car..
I just had to add it ......
sublime19 wrote:Lol clearly you don't know me well enough, it was a joke
I talk a lot of sh*t, usually have to keep a roll of toilet paper handy in the car for my mouth
Astron_Boy wrote:Hold me Sooty, I need man comfort.
Nice job, looks professionally done. I'm impressed.
May make me want to do this to the Vectra.
mikeey01nzl wrote:Hats off to you too Phil for spending so much time on the phone trying to help someone out, your a top man and only a few would've spent so much time. well done!
Daniel2019 wrote:Come on phil, we bonded at the bonfire, lets be honest here...me and phil are besties now...
