<VV> Chromalusion paint?

[Jim Burkhard]

And I'll add that it's about impossible to repair.  The "repair" is 
reshooting the car.  The effect gets really screwed up if you try to 
panel repair; don't even think of blending.

It was neat the first time I saw it. After that it has always looked 
cheesy to me.  And, it looks *really* cheesy when not applied by a 
real expert with it -- I've seen a bunch of those.

Jim Burkhard

Tony Underwood wrote:
> At 12:02 hours 04/18/2006, Steve Oxford wrote:
> 
>> With regards to the Monza in ebay auction #4632407521, can anyone 
>> explain in layman's terms how that sort of paint job is done?  Is it 
>> just a specific type of paint or is it the way that the paint is applied?
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> Chromalusion is a duPont product that contains a bunch of tiny 
> multifaceted "mirror" flakes which, depending on the angle of light and 
> viewing, will change color.   It's a basecoat paint which is a 
> single-pass coating unlike candy or metalflake colors etc.   It uses a 
> clearcoat to protect the basecoat.
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> It's also very expensive stuff and rather unforgiving in spraying 
> technique.
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> tony..