I shot a friends car something like your talking about. I shot a red base then mixed 1 paintgun cup with 2 oz. big red flake and clear. I shot the clear at about 12" from the body to fan out the flake, you must do this in large single swipes so that you don't concentrate the flakes in overlap areas. Unless you have a mixing cup. Then I layed down 3 more straight coats of clear. It stayed just like the sport boats do. Good luck!