Stardust and Truffles

[Joe Handley]

About a month ago I saw a new Chevy Traverse that was painted an interesting dark purple and decided I needed to try it on styrene too. Did some digging and found it was specific to the chromeless Traverse RS within Chevy and was called Stardust Metallic and thought that the Revell ‘65 Impala SS396 would look good in it as an otherwise showroom stock build as well as the AMT ‘69 Corvair, both of which I already have in my stash! Well, I was talking to the guy I get some of my supplies from a couple weeks ago about it as he can mix paint and put it in rattle cans for automotive touch ups. Ended up having him mix a spray can and we discovered Buick calls it Truffle Metallic too. After that I remembered I also have an AMT ‘62 Buick Electra 225 that I already started lowering, but never got farther than mocking it up on the kit steelies and thought it would look good on that with Testors Diamond Dust lacquer on the roof and in the hood sculpting and as a low rider. 
Finally got a chance to do a spoon test on Sunday using Duplicolor primers. Shot two with the grey sealer primer, one in grey filler primer, and one in black Sandable primer. Then applied the Diamond Dust to one of the two with the sealer primer, masked off the spear shape then laid the purple over all four with no other surface prep, the cleared the snot out of them with Duplicolor acrylic clear, getting the below results.

Dad, Miguel, and I all noticed a slightly darker appearance to the one shot over the black primer (left most in top and right most in bottom pics) and lighter for one one shot over the silver.

As a side note, I ran across a Corvette forum or blog where somebody thought this color needed to be offered on the C8 Corvettes as well. Just so happens to be one of those in my stash as well that may get this color too. As the weather permits, I’ll start posting progress pics of the cars in this color too.