I understand what it looks like, but I'm not an auto painter; I don't know the details of the process. Anyone care to put it in a nutshell as far as how ghost anything works?
Yes, you want to know why. Its not super relevant, its just a concept I want to play with. I have some cabinets coming up to build and the finish is already going to be a black, matte, lacquer. If it were possible, the clients would like to incorporate the room design (which is desert camo) into the cabinets ever so slightly, like having black cabinets with ghost lines in a camo pattern. I dont know if I can do it or not, but I have every piece of spray equipment known to man, scrap wood coming out of my ears, and time. Might as well try it.
THANKS

 

Well, ghost patterns are pretty much what you think they are. lol They're a very subtle pattern laid into an either existing color or as a part of a custom paint job. Ghost flames can be applied with say a very light dusting using silver like in the Jeff Gordon models of the Monte Carlo, or can even been done in Kandy finishes by taping them off and applying more Kandy to the rest of the finish to change the color. Rather than being a drastic image, that's easily seen, they're more of a transparent or even called Phantom at times. With a good look you can see them or even only visible at certain angles or lighting.

There are probably a dozen different ways of doing them, just depends on what effect is required. In your instance, doing a ghost camo wouldn't be all that hard to do really, once you have your pattern set in place, rather than spraying complete coverage in the camo colors, just use light dustings so that the color is there, but still transparent to the black underneath. With a little practice you'll get it down.

Good luck and let us know how it turns out.

 

Thanx. Time to get some colors and play. Now I'm wondering if AutoAir is compatible on top of a lacquer base. Now I'm wondering if they'll answer that on their site. The search begins...

 

when Im painting a ghost in a truck or something, Its two shades of the same color. I tape off a design of whatever... well say its a cross and im using red paint. Ill tint the red with alittle black, spray my cross, let it flash then take the tape off and paint the whole truck, includin the cross with jsut the red, no tint.