I am a collision repair painter by trade, but love doing custom stuff on the side. Have done lots with regular pearls and metallics but not much with kandy. Could someone please tell me the difference in effect / appearance between doing a candy with 2 different color bases (gold/silver or silver/charcoal) then kandy, OR using the same base, but having more coats of kandy on the flames than the rest??? Thanks much!!
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Kandy flames
- Thread starter Zeepaintr
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BonesFX
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Do the 2 different bases and then Kandy the whole thing - that be the easiest way
Bones!~
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TAZ
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Candy paint jobs have quite a bit more effect then normal basecoat/clearcoat type paints. This is because you put a base under then put a transparent candy over the basecoat so you see through the candy into the basecoat. Whereas basecoats, you just see the basecoat color. So the darker your basecoat is, the darker the outcome of the candy will be.
If you try to change the color by adding too much candy, you can kill what it was designed for. The more candy you put on, the farther away the base is. The normal amount of candy is 3-5 coats (House of Kolors). I adjust the colors of my candy by not only the candy itself, but the base under it.
Like Zeepaintr said, best thing you could do is to do a test panel so you know your exact effects.
If you try to change the color by adding too much candy, you can kill what it was designed for. The more candy you put on, the farther away the base is. The normal amount of candy is 3-5 coats (House of Kolors). I adjust the colors of my candy by not only the candy itself, but the base under it.
Like Zeepaintr said, best thing you could do is to do a test panel so you know your exact effects.
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Kyle
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Check out these paint chips, they have candies sprayed over several different colors of base.
http://hokpaint.com/chips.html
http://hokpaint.com/chips.html
Like they said it's easier to use 2 different bases.If you're going to use the coats of candy over 1 color base to do the ghosting or difference it's best to play with base colors so a fairly strong candy can be laid in 2 coats and then the ghosting is done within 2 more to keep it as thin as possible.It makes for some great ghosting but you have to experiment with bases colors and the candy to get a nice one,alot look bad and a few look good.It is also harder to control and duplicate the ghosting.