Thread: Next big paint trend???

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Around here we've seen quite a range of colors "flattened", and my hope is that the trend will continue to diminish. I simply cannot see the logic of all the time and money for prep work only to dull it down with satin/flat top coat. Kind of like cutting holes in a new pair of pants to me. Someone wrote the other day that they're seeing a trend to single stage acrylics for a period look as opposed to the "mile deep" clear coat. That seems "right" to me. When I finally get around to shooting color it will likely be single stage, or what my paint guy calls "sugar coat" with a couple of coats of single stage with a top coat of 50/50 color & clear.

Astroracer, you pose a great question - the panels on that van are indeed a very large canvas. I think you're on the right track with some type of "stealth" graphics - never seen it done, but wonder what would some large "stealth" pinstriping would look like?

yep we added clear 50/50 to many of the lacquer and some of the enamel jobs if they were metallic or just get it nice and even then let sit 24 hours and nail it with dau 75 clear the good old days ... i have done many single stage solid paint jobs were guys would ask hey just how many coats of clear do you have on that things ? we allways talk about clear over some colors mosty over black were it just did not do any thing ...i did them every day at work base coat/ clear is the only way to fly most of the time easy to work with and blend not hard for most to paint.for many colors you can get nice job and good hold out .but i feel to only get a dead flat miles deep paint job the base need s to be dead flat with base coat /clear coat . can be hard at times when you walk around a car 4 or more times to get the base to cover and sanding some of it as a pain in the ass .single stage may be better for real paint in the can and not dryer clear in some cases not much paint. single stage solids you can sand till dead flat then wheel it or clear