you have your transculent color, its like a colored clear, (where you add your candy pigment in with your clear or intercoat clear) and you have the candy stimulating base coats,(which is a candy basecoat) where its pinpointing for beginners to get the hang of it, sort of speaking. the metallics shines up thru the candy, while the clear coat pops the dept of it out, together.if im correct you spray it with 75% overlap instead of 50%. thats why metallic bases are used because when the sun hits it. like colored saran wrap, your going to see under it. but yeah candy coats are transculent color. let me put it that way, if you cant shoot solid colors or even clear coats w/o runs, or uneven coverage, then let somebody else do the spraying. You have to have the feel in order to shoot candy.
Unless you have some candy laying around you can experiment with first. if your spraying the candy yourself, invest in some craig fraser (air syndicate) videos or dvds on candy n clear coating. like John said, i would NOT suggest using a white base under your candies, mainly because its harder to shoot and you will not get the true candy effect using white, gray base and then with those base colors its easier to blotch it. since your going with candy apple, either gold metallic or silver metallic base should be used. It really takes lots of clear coats, especially if using the large flake.Ī good friend of ours Bob Spina says he remembers working with “Big Daddy” Ed Roth in the mid to late 50’s applying flake with a shoe box with holes in and shaking it out over job.Its according -what your candy color is, that depends on which base you want to go with.
With the new gravity feed guns, it would be much easier to apply. All the details were in the magazine article. They were the original manufacturers and gave me pointers on spraying the flake. The large flakes were a bit “gaudy” for my tastes, so I opted for the smaller, less intrusive which the Bobeckmun Company provided. Dick always enjoyed Tex’s saying that the roadster looked “quite distinctive on Hollywood Boulevard.” According to himself, “it was really bad (and I don’t mean good) by today’s meaning. The Buick paint did not make it to “show” or even “street” quality, and Dick can’t remember how Tex got rid of it. It was at a time where I was learning and doing most of the work myself, since money was tight in those days.” The older car mentioned in the story was actually Tex Smith’s Buick, not Dick’s roadster. In 2013 Dick told Kustomrama that “Dean was a great guy, and he could have painted it, but he didn’t. The article did also discuss that an “older car was painted at Dean Jeffries”, which made it sound like it was Dick’s roadster. As the photo shoot was done at Jeffries’ shop, many thought it was Jeffries that applied the Metalflake on the car. The Metalflaked version of Dick’s roadster, that Tex shot, was featured in Hot Rod Magazine February 1961 in a cover story about Metalflake paint. After Dick had painted the car, his buddy Tex Smith thought it would be a good idea to drive it down to Dean Jeffries for a photo shoot. Rather than using gold Metalflake as base for the Candy Apple Red, Dick used silver Metalflake, with the final color coming closer to magenta or cherry red. He used two toners to arrive at the exact color he wanted. Dick painted the car at a friends body shop in Eagle Rock, California toward the end of 1960. It was also painted in Kandy translucent red, white and blue.ĭick Scritchfield’s 1932 Ford roadster is known as the first car to ever receive a Metalflake paint job. The fins featured 30 coats of imported Swedish pearl of essence which was made of crushed fish scales and crushed diamond dust. “George’s early experience with the flake proved that it would be a wild wild finish, subtle and velvet soft in the indirect lighting, yet extremely lively where the strong light is directed”.
The overall reflection quality of the flake was softened by the addition of a small amount of pearl. George used plain silver flake for the body.
#Metal flake candy apple red paint trial
A trial was offered to George Barris for the XPAK 400 since it was going to be displayed at the National Car Show in Detroit. The particles were precision cut, coated aluminum foil that gave a metallic finish, and it was supposedly the first time the product was available for commercial use. The press release could further state, that Metalflake was a revolutionary new development by the Bobeckmun Company, a Division of the Dow Chemical Company. The XPAK 400 featured 35 coats of nitro cellulose lacquer, that according to a press release by Barris Kustoms, contained a million particles of chromed aluminum called “Metalflake”. In 1959 Barris Kustoms debuted their futuristic air car, the XPAK 400 at the New York World’s Fair. Please click on this link to view the original piece. This is an excerpt taken from the website Kustorama and all rights are theirs, thank you for allowing us to it.
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