Let's see black painted cars with clear coat!

[James2]

[crowe-t]

30 minutes ago, James2 said:

What paint and clear did you use?

[James2]

1 hour ago, crowe-t said:

What paint and clear did you use?

All Tamiya rattle can...

[crowe-t]

46 minutes ago, James2 said:

All Tamiya rattle can...

You did a beautiful job!  

Do you have any pictures in daylight?

[James2]

1 hour ago, crowe-t said:

Do you have any pictures in daylight?

Here is a link to all the pictures I have. It was a rebuild of a previous truck I built.

https://s176.photobucket.com/user/fredjames_2007/library/Custom 50 Ford PU?sort=2&page=1

Edited May 4, 2020 by James2

[espo]

'50 Olds CHP and '50 Merc Wagon

[crowe-t]

The clear over the black doesn't make it look cloudy?  Does it look richer?

[Pete J.]

Personally I like clear coat over black.  You can polish out the black base coat  but you have to generally get a relatively thick coat on to give yourself enough paint to sand out.  I feel like you can loose a lot of detail that way.  I also found out something many years ago about automotive lacquers(Yes, I use to go down to my local Dupont paint store and buy the stuff by the quart).  Since we are dealing with plastic that can expand and contract in strange ways, I always had them add a flex agent to the paint.  Also since I know I am going to clearcoat it, the adjusted the paint so it had a flat surface to "key" the clear coat.  Having said all that, I learned that it takes a deft hand to polish this out without sanding through the clear coat, however with lacquers, you could always just respray over the oops with thinned clear and it would fix the problem.  

 

[charger74]

Here are my 3 cars painted in black

[Hawk312]

On 5/1/2020 at 10:00 PM, Hard_2_Handle_454 said:

Sorry for a long post, but that's the majority of the black cars in my collection

 

SAM_2373 by Eric Lucas, on Flickr

SAM_1993 by Eric Lucas, on Flickr

1 (259) by Eric Lucas, on Flickr

SAM_2351 by Eric Lucas, on Flickr

SAM_2535 by Eric Lucas, on Flickr

1 (88) by Eric Lucas, on Flickr

1 (103) by Eric Lucas, on Flickr

1 (173) by Eric Lucas, on Flickr

1 (178) by Eric Lucas, on Flickr

1 (193) by Eric Lucas, on Flickr

1 (208) by Eric Lucas, on Flickr

1 (253) by Eric Lucas, on Flickr

SAM_2540 by Eric Lucas, on Flickr

SAM_0364 by Eric Lucas, on Flickr

SAM_2551 by Eric Lucas, on Flickr

SAM_0646 by Eric Lucas, on Flickr

 

SAM_0010 by Eric Lucas, on Flickr

Very cool...very old school! Please tell me you used the white Testors brush! ?

[Hawk312]

 

[Hard_2_Handle_454]

1 hour ago, Hawk312 said:

Very cool...very old school! Please tell me you used the white Testors brush! ?

Maybe on one of them.  My dad got me some brushes from Hobby Lobby 5-6yrs ago, and I've been using them.  They're multi-colored painting brushes for the canvas.

[crowe-t]

I really like how black looks with clear.  After seeing all these great pictures I'm going to use a base coat/clear coat for the black car I'm painting.

[gman]

5 hours ago, Hawk312 said:

 

Wow! Now those are great looking finishes.

[Deuces ll]

Yep!.... ???