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Originally Posted by cook_dw

Excellent work James. BC/CC or single?

Most people would be hard pressed to tell it isn't lacquer.

I lost ZERO points on paint for a customer's Warbonnet Yellow Firemist LT1 at the NCRS National show on the paint application ~ as well as the physical properties of the color/metallic content etc. However I sent multiple sprayout cards to the NCRS in order to get the paint color 100% correct, but take in mind color also changes by the way the paint is applied.

SPECIFICALLY METALLICS change by the way they are applied. Lacquer has metallic flakes in the pigment with binders etc. - the flakes do not lie flat... the are at differing angles, BC CC metallics are too flat and the new formulas are WAY heavy on metallic content.
With the warbonnet I scanned my 71 dealer album at the paint store and then reduced metallic by 20% and 30% did sprayouts boxing the color and clear for 2 coats and then a single coat of clear. After sending back and forth with the NCRS I ended up at a 27% metal flake reduction FROM WHAT THE CAMERA PICKED UP in the SCAN.


The headlamp bezels and all jambs are unpolished - requires flattening agent in the paint to replicate... 30% flattener in the clear/color