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You don't need to be an automotive paint expert, an experienced artist will do. I just want to get as close as possible.
I've got an old lacquer paint job and of course have a few dinks and chips I'd like to cover up. Car originally War Bonnet Yellow but the respray by the original owner in the early '80s is a little off from the factory color. I've got it fairly close but now anything I add really doesn't change the color anymore. Another thing is the 80's respray has a lot of metallic in it. I've put a little metallic silver and gold in the the flakes in those two are way small to show up like the color on the car.
Started of course with yellow. Added brown to get closer to the gold color of WBY. Since there is a slight green tint I added a little green and of course a little gold metallic and a little silver metallic. Below is the closest I've been able to come.
First, any suggestions on what color(s) to add to get a closer match and second, what can I do to add just a little more metallic to my mix? Here is a sample of my work. This is a piece of the rear valence I cut out when I ditched the side pipes.
So close but so far away. You can see how big those metal flakes are, Not lowrider big but it is very noticeable against non-metallic paint as you can see.
You don't need to be an automotive paint expert, an experienced artist will do. I just want to get as close as possible.
I've got an old lacquer paint job and of course have a few dinks and chips I'd like to cover up. Car originally War Bonnet Yellow but the respray by the original owner in the early '80s is a little off from the factory color. I've got it fairly close but now anything I add really doesn't change the color anymore. Another thing is the 80's respray has a lot of metallic in it. I've put a little metallic silver and gold in the the flakes in those two are way small to show up like the color on the car.
Started of course with yellow. Added brown to get closer to the gold color of WBY. Since there is a slight green tint I added a little green and of course a little gold metallic and a little silver metallic. Below is the closest I've been able to come.
First, any suggestions on what color(s) to add to get a closer match and second, what can I do to add just a little more metallic to my mix? Here is a sample of my work. This is a piece of the rear valence I cut out when I ditched the side pipes.
So close but so far away. You can see how big those metal flakes are, Not lowrider big but it is very noticeable against non-metallic paint as you can see.
Good luck trying to match it. I’m repainting my whole car and I’m having a hard time matching the color correctly. Can you have a paint store use their camera to find the correct mixture? I’ve attached a picture of my paint sample that’s the same formula but with 2 different sizes of metallic flakes. Completely different colors! The finer metallic turned it into a milky orange bronze vs the larger metallic is more of that blaze orange.
Right now I'm just using some old modeling enamel I have laying around. I build plastic models as a hobby and was mixing some paint for my airbrush and thought maybe I could mix up a batch of touch-up paint for the Vette. My paint job is about a 15 to 20 footer so I'm not looking to completely hide all the blemishes just was to get the look down to 10 feet. I figured plastic car can use plastic model paint.
it should do fine for little chips. im not sure if youd ever get a close match with those tho. automotive metallic paints are pretty translucent so the flake shows thru the color. its basically clear/silver basecoat with toners and metal flake is suspended in each coat. the base they start with is silver and use toners to get the right color. the solid color paints youre using has white as the base with yellow green toners
im not sure youll find a silver flake in model paint that matches that, the silvers are pretty much powdered aluminum so it sprays thru a tiny airbrush.
mixing regular solid paints and trying to add metal flake probably wouldnt make a big difference either, since the flakes would get buried in the solid paint. maybe if you try reducing it or adding clear and micro flakes, but then the coverage would probably be terrible. maybe try mixing only metallic model paints?
I would just get that piece you have, take it to a paint supply and swatch or scan it and get a tiny can of paint mixed.
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