Paint question

[John Abbott]

Hello you crazy mob.. i have a paint question....Alot of the new cars come out of the factory with some very smiko colours. Am i right to assume that the paint on these new cars are 2 pac paints ? and if that is the case would it be possible to get the same colour made up in acrylic form? cheers,,,Johnno

[BusyKiwi]

yes and yes but the new cars the paint is dull and clear is the shine/depth. look at a new car and look under the bonnet and often in the door jabs, the colour will be flat - no clear.

2 pac is easy enough to paint, same as any others, just mixing ratio needs to be a bit on the dot rather than "yep thats about right" as you do with laquers. oh and 2 pac can't sit in your gun like other paints, as it goes rock hard.

[ben]

yeh paint it in 2 pac johno it will give a lot harder more scratch resistant finish. acrylic never goes terribly hard.

ben

[John Abbott]

The reason i ask is that i am going to paint my daughters hyundai excel for her and i will be doing it in my shed at home .As i am in suburbia i dont want to have all the nastys that are in 2 pac floating around. I have used acrylic before and found it great so no probs there. I also want to spray the centres of a set of mags i got for it a metalic red to complement the base maroon colour that the car is. I will put up a pic so you can see. So its only the mags that i want the metalic for.

[Merlin]

hey johnno the solution is iso free 2 pac it doesn't have the nasties in it or you could get em powder coated also   Cheers Neil

[John Abbott]

Powder coating..... now thats using ya noodle, you can get the whole spectrum of colours to i gather....

[beddymad]

hichem sells no iso 2pac paint that is as good as the iso paint and the price is the same,only difference in painting 2pac is it takes a long time to dry so crap usually sticks to it.but it can then be cut and polished