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Candy Blue Green.
Arch stanton:
Hello Menno.
Would it be possible for you to mix a batch of paint for my sprayer to use?
I know what you say about putting on too much candy.
I suppose the best thing would be to find a genuine Honda part with original paint to use as a reference point.
Was the Candy Blue Green used on the early CD175A Solper?
It looks very similar.
Sean.
AshimotoK0:
CD175A Sloper is a normal metallic not Candy. Colour is Neptune Blue Metallic ...The CB750K1 is Candy blue/green (silver basecoat, candy coat then clear coat).
Arch stanton:
Here's a thing with modern Candy colours.
Even though the shade can be matched. The shine cannot.
If you compare a original factory painted piece to a item sprayed using modern Candy. The colour maybe a close match. But it will light up completely wrong. The original sparkle primer contained random shaped flakes of metallic.
Where modern paint has identical perfect prisms, which reflect the light far more effectively. Making restored bikes of the right colour. Look completely wrong.
Sean.
Nurse Julie:
We have all our paint work done by Menno, including Honda Candies, it is the most perfect match to a period colour, not too shiny, just perfect. If it wasn't right, we wouldn't send so many paint sets there.
Menno:
To use an aerosol (spraycan) to paint plain metallics like boss maroon is not a problem.
Paint in gereral is not cheap but since paintshops try to keep their recipees to them selves they can add an extra percentage to the price.
You will have to paint a clear coat as well to protect the metallic though.
At this moment the paint I use to paint I mix and have to use it immediately.
I cannot mix it and send it (yet). Altough I am working on a possibility to sell paint as well.
Especially since the paints available are not easy to work with.
Candy from RH is almost water (I don't know why they make the paint like that) and that makes it quite difficult.
And I've gotten some candy from RS through a forum member... that is almost paste (!?)
About the shine on old and new candy:
Original paint that was new in the day was a full shine paint. The paint, if polished would keep being shiny.
I often get the question if I could paint the lid on the cb550 in the same tone of mattblack.
But it should be shiny black.
The colours in candy are often a 1 to 1 match in shine and tone.
Metallic in the base is the same and are always a random shapes metallic or flakes.
Even I have been to meetings not able to tell at first sight weather the bike had a repaint or an original paint.
The metallic in cans or even the flakes are chips of aluminium which are randomly filed off, not stanced out.
Exactly like 40 years ago.
Yes you can buy flakes which are all exactly the same. Those are often made of plastick and used for handicraft or barby furnature and such.
You can use that as flakes on a tank as well. Think about bumbercar paint on a fair.
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