I have narrowed down my choices for paint to 2 different specific colors. One I know I can get from PPG because I found it listed with a PPG code. The other I will be calling about tomorrow.
Both colors are darker than I really want and at one auto body supply store, they told me that I could add flake to make it more metallic and it would lighten it as well. So what I need to know is does the color of the flake matter? I am absolutely going to paint her purple and currently leaning more towards the Harley Davidson "Purple Haze" (custom order color for 2008 Ultra Classic Electra Glide) and Plum Crazy which is an old Dodge muscle car color. I also know I absolutely want a metallic color. The HD is not metallic at all while the Plum is metallic but not a lot IMO. My youngest brother knows a guy closing his body shop and he has flake in various colors and sizes. He has a deep purple in a micro flake but I wonder if it would darken the paint or have no effect. The guy also has a small amount (couple oz.) of HOK purple candy pearl. My hubby thinks I should go with a pearl in the clear but again, I wonder how the various colors of pearl would change the way the base paint looks.
My goal....I want no one to have any doubt that my X is purple. I want to walk out of a store and not wonder where I parked. And I want to have something to be proud of. I will also be doing some airbrush, picked up a kit the other day and I will be calling body shops to see if they have some leftover bits of paint so I can practice the design I will be putting on Trixie. I even bought some fabric paint so I can carry my design over into the interior.
Both colors are darker than I really want and at one auto body supply store, they told me that I could add flake to make it more metallic and it would lighten it as well. So what I need to know is does the color of the flake matter? I am absolutely going to paint her purple and currently leaning more towards the Harley Davidson "Purple Haze" (custom order color for 2008 Ultra Classic Electra Glide) and Plum Crazy which is an old Dodge muscle car color. I also know I absolutely want a metallic color. The HD is not metallic at all while the Plum is metallic but not a lot IMO. My youngest brother knows a guy closing his body shop and he has flake in various colors and sizes. He has a deep purple in a micro flake but I wonder if it would darken the paint or have no effect. The guy also has a small amount (couple oz.) of HOK purple candy pearl. My hubby thinks I should go with a pearl in the clear but again, I wonder how the various colors of pearl would change the way the base paint looks.
My goal....I want no one to have any doubt that my X is purple. I want to walk out of a store and not wonder where I parked. And I want to have something to be proud of. I will also be doing some airbrush, picked up a kit the other day and I will be calling body shops to see if they have some leftover bits of paint so I can practice the design I will be putting on Trixie. I even bought some fabric paint so I can carry my design over into the interior.
