'Sticky' Candy with lace panels, a how to....
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 9:43 pm
OK to save me re-typing this at a later date and as a few have asked, I'll post this up here for those who are game. Spraying the candy is the hardest part, if not sprayed right you will get stripes and patchiness. You don't have to use candy, you could just do a slightly different colour and spray the panels with no candy. Its only limited by your imagination.
Step 1.
Paint base colour first, spray chief silver base (extremely metallic/fine metalflake)
Step 2.
Mask up your panel design, in this instance I wanted two panels with a line around the edge.
Step 3.
Lay out material (lace, or in this case teraleens, you know that white stuff hanging in ya windows!) or whatever it is that has your chosen pattern.
It doesn't need to be masked that much, just enough to hold it being careful not to distort the pattern. Mix some black in with the silver base then apply
a couple of light coats, remove the material and do a light coat or two around the edge to give it some definition. Remove the lace and the tape after it has tacked off. Missed getting some photos of this stage was a bit too excited.
Step 4.
Apply candy till a required shade of colour is achieved.
Step 5.
Apply numerous coats of clear for depth! Around about 6 coats of clear went on
And voila.....Instant
All up there are about 15 layers of paint from the silver up through to the clear and about 3 hours of cutting and buffing....Well worth it if you ask me.
Step 1.
Paint base colour first, spray chief silver base (extremely metallic/fine metalflake)
Step 2.
Mask up your panel design, in this instance I wanted two panels with a line around the edge.
Step 3.
Lay out material (lace, or in this case teraleens, you know that white stuff hanging in ya windows!) or whatever it is that has your chosen pattern.
It doesn't need to be masked that much, just enough to hold it being careful not to distort the pattern. Mix some black in with the silver base then apply
a couple of light coats, remove the material and do a light coat or two around the edge to give it some definition. Remove the lace and the tape after it has tacked off. Missed getting some photos of this stage was a bit too excited.
Step 4.
Apply candy till a required shade of colour is achieved.
Step 5.
Apply numerous coats of clear for depth! Around about 6 coats of clear went on
And voila.....Instant
All up there are about 15 layers of paint from the silver up through to the clear
and about 3 hours of cutting and buffing....Well worth it if you ask me.
excellent. i want to learn as much as i can about everything-i hate the idea of forking out money for someone to build a car for me!