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[julianb]

Hi chaps,

just finished a painting sesh. Tried to match a previous job, but for for some odd reason the fluoro green ended up a bit lighter. Any ideas? I don't recall mixing a different colour, could it simply be not enough successive coats to darken it? Paint was Faskolor as always. The pics are a bit burn't out, which makes it look lighter still.


cheers

Ju

[GRIFF55]

When i painted ones like that, i went for more coats on the green and red glitter in the black part
looking good

[eyeayen]

Fluoro colours work by showing the background colour through them to give them the intensity. So in most cases white. Therefore it's critical that you do the same amount of coats holding the airbrush / stray gun at the same distance with the same air pressure.

That said it could be a different batch of paint, they do often vary. You could always do a spray out on a spare piece of Lexan and keep it as a colour chip, then if you do another one you have something to match it to ?

To be honest I'd just go with it and not worry too much, it's a custom paint job, by hand, not factory, therefore these things are part of it.

[julianb]

Cheers. Looking at it again I'm certain I didn't shoot enough green - there's fluoro yellow behind it too, which exacerbates the issue, lightening the green further. Then backed with white - lighter still.

Never mind, still pleased with them, the masking is clean and the hot rod sparkle and teal green flames in the black look fab! - Not that you could tell from my crap photos!!!!

Lol....


J

[eyeayen]

Yeah they look cool, and you can see the hotrod sparkle on the enlarged image. Photographing paint colours is something incredibly difficult to get spot on. Camera manufacturers make their sensors to absorb the natural world, blue skies, skin tones, bright foliage but not the fantastic spectrum of the custom painting world.

Fluorescent's, Pearls, Metallics and Candy colours always get lost and never show up unless in brilliant sun light, then you struggle with the image bleaching out. If you look at a custom bike or hotrod magazine from america all the stuff looks stunning because they have so much more blue sky out there than we do and it brings the colours out.

After years of trying to perfect getting the perfect photo of my paint work I found simply using flash is the best thing, light tents are useful too, super cheap off ebay.

Anyway, good effort, nice design, good colours.