primer and paint question

[hellonwheelz3]

I am doing a 1970 superbee as a replica of a 1:1 car for a buddy of mine and I primered it with testors flat grey primer. I found out from him that his "real" car was "hemi orange". Will the flat grey primer make the hemi orange too dark? should I take the primer off with oven cleaner or do you think it will work? If it turns out good enough to be photographed, i'll post some pics. I haven't had come out good enough to get posted on here.

[Nick Winter]

I am doing a 1970 superbee as a replica of a 1:1 car for a buddy of mine and I primered it with testors flat grey primer. I found out from him that his "real" car was "hemi orange". Will the flat grey primer make the hemi orange too dark? should I take the primer off with oven cleaner or do you think it will work? If it turns out good enough to be photographed, i'll post some pics. I haven't had come out good enough to get posted on here.

I think it should be ok, I put white over grey with out it coming out too dark.

[Chillyb1]

DO NOT remove the primer unless you absolutely have to; it's a pain and more work for no good reason. First, paint a plastic sample (spare body, parts, spoon, anything) with both gray primer and with white primer. Paint them with the Hemi Orange and see how different they are, and then decide which you like better. If you decide a white base is better, then you can paint white primer over the gray already on the body.

[MikeMc]

Most all of my primers tend to be dark....black to light grey. If you want to match a 1:1 in color then base it with white after you have done your final sanding...etc. I shoot a lot of light HOK colors and they tell you to use (bc26 white) to get "this"color...most all light, brite, colors POP more over white vs any other color. Also some orange and yellows are very transparent ...white works much better here.

[LoneWolf15]

I'd go with the white , you can experiment with the spoons as mentioned previously and I can almost guarantee you'll see a diffrence between the two . The gray will darken it , the white will make it pop . As Mike stated , yellow and orange tend to be transparent . The white will reflect the orange color back to the surface , the gray will absorb it , rather than reflect it , thus darkening it by a shade or two .

[diymirage]

keep in mind that mosts paints darken per coat

so maybe 2 coats will be perfect for the hemi orange but 4 will be to dark

just something to consider