Metallic Paint

I"m going to paint my pulling garden tractor in the near future and I"m thinking painting it with a metallic paint.My question is Metallic paint hard to put on?I"m thinking its goin to be a disater,do you have to keep the gun going to keep from getting light and heavy spot of metallic and Do you have to use special primer also?Thanks
 
No special primer but you had better do some practicing on something that doesn't count first! Whole new ball game. Can be learned but not on your tractor.
 
Metallic paint isn't hard to do. Probably the best and easiest procedure is basecoat clearcoat. You can prime it with an epoxy primer, then spray the basecoat on. You just spray it on in light coats rather than a thick heavy coat that might run. Then put a couple coats of clear over it.
 
I haven't done enough of it to have an firm opinion. The silver color I use on rims is metallic, no problem, but it does not have much metallic in it. My understanding is that the heavier metallics are hard to get uniform because things like the distance of the gun from the surface, etc, makes a difference in uniformity. My opinion is that metallic serves no useful purpose on tractors.
 
(quoted from post at 07:15:29 04/04/12) I haven't done enough of it to have an firm opinion. The silver color I use on rims is metallic, no problem, but it does not have much metallic in it. My understanding is that the heavier metallics are hard to get uniform because things like the distance of the gun from the surface, etc, makes a difference in uniformity. My opinion is that metallic serves no useful purpose on tractors.
It may not serve a useful purpose, but it sure is pretty!!
 
(quoted from post at 13:15:29 04/04/12) I haven't done enough of it to have an firm opinion. The silver color I use on rims is metallic, no problem, but it does not have much metallic in it. My understanding is that the heavier metallics are hard to get uniform because things like the distance of the gun from the surface, etc, makes a difference in uniformity. My opinion is that metallic serves no useful purpose on tractors.

What is the paint code (Dupont) that you use for silver rims? I will be using Nason Ful-thane. Thanks.
 
I have read that you use rally wheel silver but do you have a Dupont paint code for it? I will be spraying Nason Ful-thane. Thanks.
 
i use code wa 9021 in diamont. it is a basf paint line (rm) called silver metallic wheel color. used on cadillac cts, denali, g6, caddie sts, tahoe and yukon. nice color, kinda makes the rims pop!! check the color chips there are many shades of wheel paint. here is an m with the wa 9021 in diamont base clear. tractor was shot in crossfire urethane.


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I candy greened my wifes and then used a metallic clear followed with a several coats of clear top coat.

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