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Karibou
My project is a 2-tone job, white enamel on the top which I plan on clearing, and a very strong metallic blue bottom in DBC 2000. I have a couple of questions for the forums, one functional and one philosophical.
I've just started shooting the metallic on some smaller pieces and notice how tough it is to shoot smoothly. I've already had the metallics sag into some compound curves but been able to save it with some pre-clear sanding and re-basing. My main problem seems to be how unforgiving this paint is over body work. My body work is being done mostly in a homemade epoxy and 3M microballoons and this stuff is really tough to not pinhole. I've skimmed some of my bodywork with thinned epoxy resin, which helps, but the end result is that I'm having some minor ghosting problems even after 3 coats of DBC. I think the ghosting is texture based and not a "coverage" issue of the base. I plan with the remaining body work to skim the micro with extra resin to fill all the pinholes, but in the meantime I wonder if extra base might hide these ghost images? When I say pinholes too I mean subtle, these images are very very light.
My other question relates to design and look. After shooting some of this metallic I got to wondering if the vehicle will look weird with a non-metallic white over such a strongly metallic blue bottom. Does anybody here have an opinion on this? I've changed this project part way through as my original plan was to shoot a 2-tone white/gray with both being non-metallic enamels by PPG. Sorry for the length and thanks for your insights.
I've just started shooting the metallic on some smaller pieces and notice how tough it is to shoot smoothly. I've already had the metallics sag into some compound curves but been able to save it with some pre-clear sanding and re-basing. My main problem seems to be how unforgiving this paint is over body work. My body work is being done mostly in a homemade epoxy and 3M microballoons and this stuff is really tough to not pinhole. I've skimmed some of my bodywork with thinned epoxy resin, which helps, but the end result is that I'm having some minor ghosting problems even after 3 coats of DBC. I think the ghosting is texture based and not a "coverage" issue of the base. I plan with the remaining body work to skim the micro with extra resin to fill all the pinholes, but in the meantime I wonder if extra base might hide these ghost images? When I say pinholes too I mean subtle, these images are very very light.
My other question relates to design and look. After shooting some of this metallic I got to wondering if the vehicle will look weird with a non-metallic white over such a strongly metallic blue bottom. Does anybody here have an opinion on this? I've changed this project part way through as my original plan was to shoot a 2-tone white/gray with both being non-metallic enamels by PPG. Sorry for the length and thanks for your insights.