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I think everything sprayed on the underside of a lexan body will end up a gloss finish because of the shiny polycarbonate body. I don't think the paint can do anything about that, if painted on the underside.

Frankentruck wrote: ↑Thu Feb 01, 2024 3:21 pm I think everything sprayed on the underside of a lexan body will end up a gloss finish because of the shiny polycarbonate body. I don't think the paint can do anything about that, if painted on the underside.

The Tamiya PS-3 Light Blue, being matte, is not the Metallic flake I thought it was, I had just assumed it was Light Blue Metallic and would be like the PS-16 Metallic Blue.

I skipped around in this video, but this is Tamiya TS, not PS.


Spas Stix has something in Metallic Blue, but hard to tell what it would turn out like.

Gotcha, you're talking metallic vs non-metallic. It would be interesting to know how backing a non-metallic color with a metallic silver turns out.

Frankentruck wrote: ↑Thu Feb 01, 2024 4:40 pm Gotcha, you're talking metallic vs non-metallic. It would be interesting to know how backing a non-metallic color with a metallic silver turns out.

I am tempted to try the light blue, can't tell how translucent it is though. Another interesting backing color might be the Tamiya PS-63 Bright Gun Metal
https://www.amazon.com/Tamiya-America-Polycarbonate-Bright-TAM86063/dp/B01M5JDUKY



Seems to have that stingray silver effect, lurking below a light blue might be as close as I can get with Tamiya spray.

On the way here to try, is the PS-3 light blue for the base coat.


PS-63 Bright Gun Metal


Alclad



-and another PS-41 Bright Silver. Might be a while before I get all those.

Frankentruck wrote: ↑Thu Feb 01, 2024 4:40 pm Gotcha, you're talking metallic vs non-metallic. It would be interesting to know how backing a non-metallic color with a metallic silver turns out.

Non-metallics will likely let almost no metallic backing coat show through. They're more solid colors. Metallics have particles that have to orient a certain way and they can't do that if there's already a layer of solid color. For the same reason, FasKolor recommends spraying their FasGlitter metallic powder mixed with their FasKoat base coat, which dries clear...BEFORE you back it with either a metallic or solid backing color. Even if you mix the FasGlitter metallic powder with a metallic paint, it won't show through very well.

Coelacanth wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2024 1:05 pm

Frankentruck wrote: ↑Thu Feb 01, 2024 4:40 pm Gotcha, you're talking metallic vs non-metallic. It would be interesting to know how backing a non-metallic color with a metallic silver turns out.

Non-metallics will likely let almost no metallic backing coat show through. They're more solid colors. Metallics have particles that have to orient a certain way and they can't do that if there's already a layer of solid color. For the same reason, FasKolor recommends spraying their FasGlitter metallic powder mixed with their FasKoat base coat, which dries clear...BEFORE you back it with either a metallic or solid backing color. Even if you mix the FasGlitter metallic powder with a metallic paint, it won't show through very well.

Thanks for this, I'll do some tests when it gets here, and experiment with the base coat.

Tried the Tamiya PS-3 Light Blue as a base coat, it's not translucent, no backing color would matter.


I lightly painted this entire strip in PS-16 Metallic Blue, which is the same color I previously used on my HPI '67 vette body, that looked purple at times, or too dark of a blue after I applied it so heavily on the base coat.

But with the light base coat of PS-16 Metallic Blue, backed with PS-63 Bright Gunmetal, that looks pretty close to Marina Blue.



The next attempt will be a very light base coat of PS-16 Metallic Blue, backed with PS-63 Bright Gun Metal.


Need to order another PS-16.