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tomsteve said:

the way im takin this is ya want a metallic and ya want it to be the same across all 3 colors?
if so, seems metallic in an intercoat clear after laying the basecoats would be the way to go.
i could be wrong,though.

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These are all things out of your control when you have the paint mixed. I am sure this would make the metallic even over all three coats, but I am pretty sure they would still look different over the different color bases. If you were to add it to the base, the blue will take more metallic, the red less since its a brighter red and I am not sure about the white. We usually just add pearl to the white. This is why it takes a few chips to decide.

When we painted the inside of the fiberglass cap for the jeep, I figured the silver flake in the clear would make it look like a night sky full of stars and it really did, but its clear that the stars are on top of the black base and would not look right as a metallic paint. The flake is deeper in metallic paint.

I use Matt and Lyndi at Paint with Pearl. (all together website). We used the royal blue candy metallic with the smallest flake to paint the camaro in black base that turned into a great metallic in the sun, darker blue to black look at night. We used Midnite blue 008 flake for the metal flake paint on the jeep. That one we just mixed with clear because we wanted the bold flake. You can send them the picture of the car and tell them what you are trying to accomplish and they will probably send you a few bags to work with. We mostly started with them because we can add their flake to our clear powder to do loud metallic rims since its good to 400 degrees.

Of course, your protection from uv and fading should only be trusted with universal clear.

These are all things out of your control when you have the paint mixed. I am sure this would make the metallic even over all three coats, but I am pretty sure they would still look different over the different color bases. If you were to add it to the base, the blue will take more metallic, the red less since its a brighter red and I am not sure about the white. We usually just add pearl to the white. This is why it takes a few chips to decide.When we painted the inside of the fiberglass cap for the jeep, I figured the silver flake in the clear would make it look like a night sky full of stars and it really did, but its clear that the stars are on top of the black base and would not look right as a metallic paint. The flake is deeper in metallic paint.I use Matt and Lyndi at Paint with Pearl. (all together website). We used the royal blue candy metallic with the smallest flake to paint the camaro in black base that turned into a great metallic in the sun, darker blue to black look at night. We used Midnite blue 008 flake for the metal flake paint on the jeep. That one we just mixed with clear because we wanted the bold flake. You can send them the picture of the car and tell them what you are trying to accomplish and they will probably send you a few bags to work with. We mostly started with them because we can add their flake to our clear powder to do loud metallic rims since its good to 400 degrees.Of course, your protection from uv and fading should only be trusted with universal clear.

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