Painting Questions/Help

[fix14wd]

A buddy wants me to paint his truck lid with Faskolor Fasecent yellow and faspearl key lime 2... (which I'm not crazy about at this point, I can't visualize a decent end product) BY the way, I've never usewd Fascolor. Light even coats backed by silver or white??
I'm thinking yellow upper half and keylime lower. I'd like to either seperate the two with and colored carbone fiber look, or use one of those two colors in carbon fiber itself. I can do regular carbon fiber, but I'm not sure how I'd use a color in it. Any suggestions?

 

[Lessen]

Yes, light even coats for sure. I just used Fascolor flourescent yellow myself on my latest TC body. Back it with white. As I've mentioned before I'm not a fan of the paint but it did come out nice where I used it. Sometimes you just gotta improvise.

As far as the concept is concerned, I'm not a fan of overdoing it with flourescents, but that's just my eye talking. I think you'll get a better contrast if you do a traditional carbon fiber between the two. I think if you do a colored CF, it'll be too colorful. He may not realize how gaudy the car will look if it's 90% flourescent colors so I think you'll be doing him a big favor if you back down the amount of flourescent being used and/or break it up a lot using CF effected shapes. I can visualize that pretty well and it could look very sharp. The key is getting the proportion of dark/bright correct so it's tasteful but not boring and still pops.

 

[fix14wd]

Yeah, I have to agree with the traditional carbon fiber for seperation. I did some playing around practicing today and those colors will look a lot better that way.
I also tried my hand at a brushed aluminum look. Sprayed silver as the primary, let it almost dry, stroked it, let it dry. Repeated. then backed with pearl white. Came out pretty crappy. Had pooling in the strokes, just looked too watery. Softer brush maybe? Crappy results with trying to marble with cling wrap, too.
I think today just isn't my day. Even having a hard time with cutting lines in the mask.
Some days...:\

 

[Lessen]

That's why I don't like Fascolor. It dries too slow. I've found that the degree of effect is quite manageable with regular Pactra or their Acryl.

 

[Greywolf74]

IDK about fascolor but I know the pactra pearls (at least the spray cans) say to use the backing black color to get the proper pearl effect. I havent used mine yet but thats what it says on the can. Just thought id throw that out there in case it applies to the pearls you are using as well.

 

[fix14wd]

Well, the truck is done.. Not a fan of Faskolor, at least of what I'ved used so far.. pics in a bit.

 

[fix14wd]

Here it is...

 

[Lessen]

That turned out NICE bro!

Yeah, I don't like the way it sprays and how "wet" it tends to be but I will say this... it's VERY durable in my experience. I used to use it as my primary years ago before I switched to Pactra and I found it to bond extremely well to the lids (very resistant to cracking/flaking)

 

[Rolex]

Well that sure turned out nice. Great job.

 

[mayrider]

when you said the colors i thought yuck but when i see the finished product it came out lookin good. nice work!!

 

[Phins Fan]

Should be proud of that lid!! I like the color schemes you got going there