Thread: Kandie Help

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Hello, Im new so I hope this question has not been asked a million times before but, I could use some tips or advice. Im shooting a PPG Kandie and was wondering if anyone had used this paint before and could give me any help. Thanks

Zino, all kandies or candies, regardless of brand, consist of a translucent color coat sprayed over a base that is generally a metallic and normally silver or gold but can be just about any color. I have sprayed various candies from a few different manufacturers including HOK and Dupont. I have also mixed small amounts of color into quarts of clear to make my own candies to spray over a silver base. I had great success doing this. The drawback being that you will pretty much never match the exact color again if you need more for touch up or some forgotten part like a mirror or door handle that got misplaced. The best bits of advice I can give aside from making sure to read and understand the instructions on the can and visiting the PPG web site and checking out their tech sheets for the products you are using, would be this: First, pay painstaking attention to your overlap. Use a 50% overlap and don't waver. You need to be very careful at places where a panel changes direction, like a wheel arch or the front of a fender. Don't let the urge to follow the curve get the best of you. Paint straight through so you are not doubling your coverage on the subsequent passes. Second, like any paintjob, maintain a constant gun distance from your panel. This is twice as critical when spraying candy. Third, don't try to get the resulting color in the first coat. In other words, don't lay the first coat down to heavy trying to get the color to 'look right'. You will end up with at least 2 coats and the second will be dramatically darker than the first. Pay proper attention to flash times and watch that hose. Candy jobs are VERY hard to touch up. Bigger vehicles are harder to get awesome results on, motorcycles are a good place to start and practice on. I would also recommend spraying the vehicle whole. Do not attempt to spray the fenders, hood or trunk separate. This is nearly impossible also (at least for me) The base color need to be every bit as perfect as the candy coat. Make sure the base is even and doesn't have any tiger-striping as any base blems will show through in the color topcoat. So do your homework, pay attention to the details and most of all HAVE FUN! good luck.
Brian

the kandie of ppg is very good, but that effect you want in the painting they can cause that he is but dark or but metalized

Brian has it right, start with a test panel or small job. Mess up candy and u get to start from scratch. But like they told me do it till u get good at it.

tint your base a little lighter than the color you want. finish off with candy color. you'll get the same effect without the dark spots.