Spray on chrome
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Melting Slicks
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From: Bay Area CA
Spray on chrome
These guys claims to manufacture real looking spray on chrome.
http://www.alsacorp.com/killercans.htm
Results looks better than the Duplicolor cans sold at autozone which looks like aluminum paint.
No.. No.. I am not even thinking of painting my car with it
http://www.alsacorp.com/killercans.htm
Results looks better than the Duplicolor cans sold at autozone which looks like aluminum paint.
No.. No.. I am not even thinking of painting my car with it
Last edited by rajsid; Jan 10, 2008 at 01:01 AM.
Le Mans Master
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From: detroit area
that paint has been out for a few years...... not sure if it really went big since i havent seen and "ballers" roll with it on the street.......
the cameleoan paint was a hit about 2 years ago...now it's 2 tone or racing stripes......... thats detroit though
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Safety Car
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That's chosmichrome,or Alsa...which I heard they kinda use a modified chosmichrome system......their are 2 machines here local to spray that stuff,and in nogotiations right now to start spraying it.We'll see....It goes on just like a regular paint process....,but extremely volnerable to ANY contamination...I was looking at the replacement side exhaust covers,etc.aspect.....Check out Chosmichromes web site.....pretty cool.They also,have tintable colors that you add to the clear to spray over the chrome,so the sky is the limit......
Instructor
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From: Wilmington NC
I was wondering about this stuff as well. I would like to try it on some peices that aren't so big or noticeable (like the removable window latches, etc.), but I'm scared it will look like crap. Anyone have any b4 and after pics of using stuff like this?
-Shark Mann
-Shark Mann
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Drifting
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From: Tampa FL
I don't really care for the chrome paint and think it would probably make a C3 look horrible, but I have to admit I do like some of their candy concentrates. Wouldn't do it on a bumper car, but I have contemplated doing one on an 80-82 - strip it down, paint the car silver base, then mix in a blood red candy concentrate with the clear and shoot the clear that way. Would look pretty good on a C3 I think.
This image is that exact combination (silver base, blood red concentrate mixed with clear):
Here is the same with a black concentrate:
http://alsacorp.com/products/candyco...ates/candy.htm
This image is that exact combination (silver base, blood red concentrate mixed with clear):
Here is the same with a black concentrate:
http://alsacorp.com/products/candyco...ates/candy.htm
Instructor
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From: Baton Rouge La
I used a rattle-can and it looked okay. Not that shiny and extremely reactive to anything you touch with it (not that it's going to burn your skin, just no chemicals). I don't remember the brand. I've heard from a friend who works in a body shop that their are brush applied chrome paints that look a little better and are not reactive. Don't know where to get it though, sorry.
Last edited by spike1360; Jan 10, 2008 at 04:18 PM.
Melting Slicks
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Saw a guy at a car show once with an aluminum bodied Cobra replica that had been polished to a chrome like brilliance. My only thought was that, if you were driving that puppy into a rising or setting sun, you could blind some poor bastige coming the other way.
I wonder if either the Mercedes or the Bimmer above have hydraulics.
I wonder if either the Mercedes or the Bimmer above have hydraulics.
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Melting Slicks
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(The spray on paint and not the rattle can paint)
But the price is close to 95-98% of real chrome. Might as well do real chrome then.
Drifting
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From: Tampa FL
Or blinding yourself - one of my vettes' steering wheels has the chrome spokes and that sucker will blind you at the right time of day. I couldn't imagine having the whole hood that way.
Safety Car
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From: Norwalk Ct
I've used Alsa's and Xotics version of the chrome and the alumifec paint, and done properly the result is unreal.
Unfortunately it is very very very very (did i say very!) time consuming and expensive. You have to prep the surface , ultra smooth, spray black, catalyze clear, wait 4 or 5 days, cut and buff. You apply the chrome effect with an airbrush or a dry mix on a touch up gun, you have to leave that for a day for a day or so and then carefully wipe off excess, then clear coat.
I have used it as a base for candy colors before now on bikes and they do look very cool..
Nick
Unfortunately it is very very very very (did i say very!) time consuming and expensive. You have to prep the surface , ultra smooth, spray black, catalyze clear, wait 4 or 5 days, cut and buff. You apply the chrome effect with an airbrush or a dry mix on a touch up gun, you have to leave that for a day for a day or so and then carefully wipe off excess, then clear coat.
I have used it as a base for candy colors before now on bikes and they do look very cool..
Nick
