Custom Auto Paint – Make it look good
Have you been thinking about putting a custom paint job on your car, there are a number of things that you should think about when you go to do it, I’m just going to cover the basic idea, a few things that you should know before you go to the custom paint shop to talk about your custom paint work.
It doesn’t matter what car you own, I’m sure that you’d like it to look great, and to look like it’s one of a kind, your kind, you need to think about the time and expense that it takes to put custom paint on a car, of course it all depends on what kind of custom paint work you’d like done on your car.
I would never try to talk a person out of doing a custom paint job if that what they want, now that we have that out of the way, I will explain a few things, if this is your daily driver that you’d like a custom paint job on, stop and think for a minute, what if the car get slammed in to on the road.
You really need to consider this, because some paints are somewhere near impossible to paint match if the get marred up, candy apple is one of those, allow me to explain how a candy paint is sprayed on a car, during the process after the mask and prep on the car, you’d begin by spraying a sealer, and this is done with all paints.
It differs from other paints in this manor, a regular base coat clear coat paint job would go like this, first you’d spray the sealer, and then wait for thirty minutes, and the you’d come in and mix the color coat, and then lat down three or four coats of color, and then allow a flash of ½ hour, after the flash time you’d go in and spray the four coats of clear, and the base coat clear coat paint is finished, unless your going to cut and buff the finished paint.
For a candy apple paint job you’d get the car prepped and masked, and then clean it and seal it, and then you’d start by laying down a reflective base such as a silver, gold, black, or some other color to create the custom color effect that your looking for, and then you’d lay a transparent color down, like a transparent red if your spraying candy apple red.
This is where things really start to differ, the darker you want the red color to be, the more of the transparent red you’d lay down, so if you remember on the base coat clear coat I said three or four coats of color, but with candy you’d spray the transparent color until you have the desired shade of red that you want, and this is where it can be almost impossible to match after a wreck.
The painter can tell you how many coats of the transparent color that they spray, but the problem lays here, when the candy apple color is manufactured they can’t make it exactly the same every time, so while the painter can tell you that he/she laid down 4 coats of the transparent color, you will never be able to get exactly the same color again, and this would cause a color difference after a repair match.
As far as the clear coat, it is done the exact same way as I described earlier in this article, custom paint jobs are very expensive, and really time consuming, so give some thought to what you want done, and how it would be repaired after the car is wrecked, and it can save a lot of agony for you, and the shop that does the work on your car.
I love custom paint work as much as the next guy, I spray custom paint work all the time, and I know that you have to get what you want when it comes to the look of your car, and I hope this helps you in some small way when it’s time to paint your car.




















































