How much basecoat will I need…
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Guys, I have spotted a paint factor has some beautiful pearl blue paint which is a one-off mix and a cancelled customer order. I am tempted to grab it for a project I have coming up. I don’t know that there will be enough though… The car is a 1972 Oldsmobile 98 4door hardtop. The guy has 2.5 litres of HS Basecoat. This mixes 1:1 with thinner so its 5 litres of material. I use a good DeVilbiss HVLP type gun.
Obviously I just need to get coverage then clear it.
I always end up with too much or too little paint!
What does anyone else think?
I would be painting all exterior + door shuts.
Definately not enough paint to do a car of that size inside and out.That would be close to just do the outside depending on coverage.
thanks, I kinda thought that would be the case.
On the other hand, if you don’t need to worry about an exact colour too much and the price it great, buy it anyway. Then buy another litre (or however much you might need) of a similar colour blue and mix them together.
Not a bad idea!
[quote=”Ben” post=23026]On the other hand, if you don’t need to worry about an exact colour too much and the price it great, buy it anyway. Then buy another litre (or however much you might need) of a similar colour blue and mix them together.[/quote]
Or do what I regularly do – build up first with a coat or two of a similar colour. You’ll not need as much of your “proper” colour then. One good coat in the door shuts etc. will do it.
Not something I’d recommend if you’re looking for a perfect edge to edge match on an existing colour, but for a full respray it should work just fine. And it’s how my DeBeer paint system works for a lot of pearl colours. They generally have poor coverage, so there’s a wide range of solid groundcoats available. Some of them are almost exactly the same as the top coat, but without the “sparkle”. So you can get full coverage with one ground coat and one proper pearl coat, as opposed to several coats of pearl.
Just an idea…. 🙂
I did similar with a Vauxhall Victor I painted a few years ago when the factor was out of the correct tinter to make the correct shade of silver. Plain silver ground coat and then the colour matched basecoat on top…
Certainly something to think about
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