It’s the same clear coat we used on the Harley Davidson Yellow gas tank project. It started out as a faded, ugly, chipped up, cracked fiberglass pocket bike. I laid on two coats of the clear coat mixed with some Gold pearl and Silver flake and you will see how it changed the Inferno Red color to an awesome Burnt Orange. I laid the clear coat mixed with Gold pearl and Silver flake on top of the Inferno Red. Watch the video now because I also include a clip of a pocket bike project that I just did. You can use a metallic base coat or even a flat-color base coat, lay the intercoat or clear coat with pearls or flakes on top of it and get an amazing finish. Make sure you watch the video because I show you how it looks like on some clear coat with Gold pearl – Silver flake that has already set. If you could do that, by all means go ahead and use just a basic clear coat to mix your pearls or flakes. So mixing it in clear coat is more for someone that already knows how to paint well and lay the clear on glossy without running it. And even if you sand it out flat and buff it, you’ll still see that run. The dangerous part about this option is, if you run it, you will have that pearl/flake run. You would mix your pearl or flake in that.įinally, you can just mix the pearls or flakes in your clear coat. You will basically have a clear base coat on top of your base – like a DBC/DBU500. If you ask me, the best way to do it is to really go to the paint shop and have them mix it for you – so it’s formulated properly and it’s sure to come out looking like a really nice metallic finish.īut, the other way to do it is to mix in intercoat. The thing is, you really don’t want to go mixing pearls and flakes directly to base coat because you’re going to have to put a lot of it in there to get any kind of effect.Īnd most of the time, it just gets buried in the paint and you can’t really notice it showing in the paint. Instead, why don’t you just pick out a color that’s already a metallic pearl. Well, if you’re looking to do that metallic pearl-ish look, I really recommend not getting a flat color like the Inferno Red that I show in the video. “Tony, I want to put Pearls and Flakes in my paint, should I just mix them in my base coat? Can I just basically pour pearls or flakes into it, mix it up, and then spray on the car?” One of the most frequently asked questions I get is… In this video, we’re going to cover a couple of questions that more of my subscribers sent in.
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