dark blue
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dark blue
soon, i will be starting to work on the body of my truck. for paint, i am leaning towards the ford dark blue. has anyone ever thrown a little metalic flake in the paint?
another thought i had was painting it the dark blue but putting black metallic flake in the clear.
any thoughts on this?
chris
another thought i had was painting it the dark blue but putting black metallic flake in the clear.
any thoughts on this?
chris
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If you hand mix the metalic into a paint, and later you need to repaint a section (due to accident ect.) it is hard to match the paint again. I would suggest using a premixed paint. I have used Dupont to paint ford's and have found a color matches with the metalic in it. Now all I have to do is write down the paint code, and I can match it perfectly in the future. I just did my '95 250, Dark Green OEM paint, used Dupont with metalic. Same color only with metalic, looks great. Good luck on whatever you choose.
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Flake looks great, but as mentioned, makes repairs harder. If you weigh out the flake on a gram scale, and blend any repairs, you should be able to make it work. Instead of flake on my current project, I used started with a stock color and made some adjustments. I used Coarse Starflake Metalic instead of Medium Starflake, and I added lots of Violet Pearl to the base blue color. It really came out nice. It also looks cool when I used it to tint the bedliner.
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Last edited by Rocket Racing; Mar 10, 2006 at 08:22 PM.
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