My first flake

[Ember]

I've had some Alclad II prismatic lacquers hanging around for a few years waiting for me to get brave enough to try them. It was such a glorious and still day I decided today was the big day. Age may have something to do with the lack of secondary colour shift colour, but it still looks pretty good in my humble opinion.



Colour is Scarabeus, which supposedly shifts from green to blue. I noticed when shooting the colour that there seemed to be very little blue flake in the suspension. I'll consider shooting another coat tomorrow. So far it's had 6 or 7 fairly fine coats. But the stuff is pretty awful to spray due to the flake. Got to keep agitating the bottle to keep the flake in suspension.

Will see how it looks tomorrow.

[btaylor]

Does that flake take a special tip? i know in the old days,on 1;1 car painting, you had to have a flake tip on your gun or it would clog up.
Thats a beautiful color by the way!

Bob

[Ember]

I had to play around a little to find out what would work. I finished up using a .8 tip on a single action external mix airbrush left almost wide open to allow for the flakes and shooting at about 10psi. It was still difficult to keep the tip from blocking.

[TheRoadrunner]

From the title I thought you just got your fist snow of the year. Nice painting. I like the look even if the flakes are the size of a quarter in scale. lol The pearl paints more closely represent the scale of metal-flake but it is very vine pieces and needs good lighting to see it.
Again, nice work.

[Ember]

I like pearl, they do work better on scale stuff. I guess I just expected the Alclad to have a finer flake.

Not sure if I'll buy the prismatic again. I still have another bottle of it. It's expensive and there's not really a lot of cars that it's likely to suit. Decided the hot hatch was the go. Just think it'd look better on something more curvaceous. Need someone to do some of the newer TVRs.

Anyway. This one will probably get auto clear over it for a real sparkle.

[Ember]

Ahhh.... That's better. I put another couple of coats on it.

[bill from nh]

Now you got the color change working! Great job. :banana-dance:

[Czar]

I am sure that car will be very interesting to watch as you drive it around the track. Should be pretty easy/interesting to see on the track as the colors shift and fade.

[Ember]

I have another prismatic paint which is a blue to purple shift. I think I might try it on a BMW M3 that I have stripped. That way I can clear a couple of cars with one mix.

These paints would be so much better on the hotrods and lowriders some of you guys build.

[TuscoTodd]

Ember -
That paint looks pretty slick in the photos!
:)

[DixonJohn]

That looks real good. Remember that it takes a lot of clear to bridge the gaps between the flakes. Now that you shot the alclad you know how to do the nail polish. Again, Great looking paint

[Dundee Denny]

really like the contrast, and as noted will be fun to see the color shifts as you run the track!!

not that brave............. but getting braver as I watch and learn from others success.

Dundee Denny

[Ember]

Unfortunately the weather turned against me. Been a bit windy for the last week or so. As soon as I get clear days again I'll have another go at the Beamer in blue and purple. The flakes really are much smaller than they look in the first lot of photos. Then it's a matter of getting brave enough to shoot the clear coat.

I've been lucky enough to score a litre of De Beer Refinish Z9000 speed clear to try. The rep said I should be able to shoot it through an airbrush without any need to reduce it. He takes airbrush classes with His Lordship's youngest and uses it on his class work.