Thanks. Well a little background. I paint. I do mostly Mustang restorations, but a little of everything. I also like doing motorcycle tins, easy and fun money. I end up doing several a year. People send them to me, I do all the work and send them back. Recently I have done two 1970s Honda candies. Candy is a lot of work, but I love ding it. And a good break from cars and trucks. I have an Apply Krate I restored for myself. I used Pete's paint, sprayed with a touch up gun, turned out beautiful. I didn't "want" to go to all that trouble with this one. So I read to see what people were using and decided to shoot a large flake silver base that I had for candy work I do. I followed that with Metal Cast from a spray can
I can honestly say, it looked horrible. The spray pattern is very wide, usually a good thing. But painting a frame , as most of you know, means really painting many individual tubes. When using my touch up spray gun, I can shut the fan way down and get exactly what I want. The spray can . . no control at all. So treating this Metalcast as a "candy" . .just didn't work. The pattern was so large it sprayed all over the place, not just the tube you wanted sprayed. So I ended up spraying much more on, to get a consistent color, than should have been done. I decided this was just the base for what I would do next.So, staying low tech and convinced I could make this work, I bought 2 VHT paints, 402 and 404. One is Gold Flake and the other is Burnt Copper. I sprayed the Gold first and it brought the color back down closer to what I wanted . .actually a bit on the yellow side from what I wanted. But that was just fine. I did very light coats. I then switched to the Burnt Copper and again, very light coats. I was able to treat it more like a translucent color ( it is not, but when very thin it almost is ). I had the Schwinn piece I could use to check my color and BAM . .spot on
Then I followed with some clear. I'm not 100% sure the color is influenced by the first Metalcast ?? meaning, could I achieve the same look with the two colors of VHT as I had done with three colors. When I do the chain guard and fork, I'll let you know
Here's some stuff I have done lately, first is a custom green candy I mixed.
Next pic is a candy that almost beat me. I never should have agreed to do it . .the customer was asking for too much. It may just look like a typical custom job, but it was a lot of steps, a lot. And if anything got messed up ( and it did ) you had to start all over. In hindsight I could have steered the customer to other materials that would have been much easier to work with.
So if anyone wants any help in doing the Coppertone, using basically, what I used, just ask.