[Halon]

Well I had to take off my wrinkle black cover because it had a crack in it and oil was leaking out of it. I'm going to try and repair it with this aluminum filler stuff I have.

But since it came off, I had a Hyundai cover laying around that I'm going to be throwing on the car. I've been trying to figure out how to make a color to match the Black Cherry color of my car. My idea was to use a transparent/candy red, but with a Gloss Black base coat instead of the typical white/silver/chrome base you'd typically use with a transparent/candy color. Here's the results. It looked like absolute crap before I coated it. I was actually a little worried on how it would turn out because of the poor condition the surface was in and I couldn't get a lot of crap off the surface because it was just caked on it, even after a couple hours of prepping it. But I think it turned out just awesome. If you're just looking at it dead on, it looks pretty much like a gloss black (like you'll notice in the 3rd pic), but once it gets some light on it, then you see the maroon look (like in pics 4+). I think I'll be doing all my piping this color as well. I'm real happy as this was my first attempt at using a transparent powder. Let me know what you all think!


First 2 pictures are just of the gloss black base coat. Then from pic 3 and on is with the transparent applied. In pic 3 you can see how it basically looks like gloss black. But then when I turned the flash on in pic 4, you can see the maroon reflect.

One of these days I'm going to be getting an HVLP gun so I can start ceramic coating as well!