dark basecoat with lighter flakes or light basecoat with darker flakes

We also sell an variety of chameleon flakes, which are doing great things in the color-changing and chameleon paint world. As we say around here, “One jar paints a car.” Remember, unlike some flakes that people dust onto wet clear-coat dry and spend about 400 bucks for 20 jars of flake to paint a single auto, our system is much more efficient. See our tips pages for more information, our download our instructional PDF. Keep in mind, that even though they are called “metal flake”, most of our flakes are made from special solvent-resistant polyesters that can withstand the chemicals in the clear coat.

We have seen full coverage with just 3 coats of clear on these flakes, and your door and hood edges will be as smooth as if you just rolled the car off the showroom floor. Knockdown isn’t even an issue with our flake.

Just choose your base coat (black is good if you want the paint to take on the color of the flakes), and add a heaping tablespoon of our flake to any clear coat (although we recommend a base clear for mixing the flake into, like PPG’s DBC-500, or HOK’s inter coat clear). Paint JobĬreating a great metal flake paint job is super simple with our flakes. 004″ size (that’s 4 thousandths of an inch). Our flakes are so small, they give perfect coverage to even the smallest edges you can find in any applications. See our user’s pictures for a good idea of what these beautiful flakes can do for your custom paint job. The fact of the matter is that painters can still get big sparkle out of small flakes, so we choose to sell mainly the smallest metal flake, although we can get larger flake sizes for those who insist upon larger flakes. We have seen some metal flake paint jobs that were such a disaster because the flakes were too large to go around the edges of doors, hoods, etc. In most of the older flake jobs, the amount of extra knockdown and sanding involved with doing the overall paint job makes metal flake the lesser desirable option when using custom paint.

The problem has always been the tons of extra work involved when painting with standard sized flakes. Classically, metal flake paint is a staple in the custom painting world.

Dark basecoat with lighter flakes or light basecoat with darker flakes