fuck yea, i just did it on a harley, what I did was flames, but this is how i did it:


First i shot the base color............the a coat of intercoat clear........then I masked the flames........then I sprayed the flames with the same basecolor, but I added some silver to it to lighten it up.....Unmasked the flames.........it was not quite ghost enough to satisfy me...........so I then took the original base color and just over reduced it buy 50% then I shot 1 coat of it over the entire bike......kinda like a candy base coa

It was ghost as ghost can be, and the customer loved it. the bike looked one color when you looked at it from 10 feet, but up close and at angles the flames would appear.

 

Originally posted by 81juicedregal@Jan 9 2007, 10:32 PM~6948348
fuck yea, i just did it on a harley, what I did was flames, but this is how i did it:
First i shot the base color............the a coat of intercoat clear........then I masked the flames........then I sprayed the flames with the same basecolor, but I added some silver to it to lighten it up.....Unmasked the flames.........it was not quite ghost enough to satisfy me...........so I then took the original base color and just over reduced it buy 50% then I shot 1 coat of it over the entire bike......kinda like a candy base coa

It was ghost as ghost can be, and the customer loved it. the bike looked one color when you looked at it from 10 feet, but up close and at angles the flames would appear.

post some pics doggie, im want to do some ghost flames on my daily driver ram truck soon. ive never done ghost flames or patterns before, well in kandy, but never over a basecoat. my truck is red, i was thinking about going with a gold a purple pearl over the red base :dunno: your method seems kinda interesting too though...

 

Originally posted by hot$tuff5964@Jan 9 2007, 08:59 PM~6948601
post some pics doggie, im want to do some ghost flames on my daily driver ram truck soon. ive never done ghost flames or patterns before, well in kandy, but never over a basecoat. my truck is red, i was thinking about going with a gold a purple pearl over the red base :dunno: your method seems kinda interesting too though...

its not really a method i always do, just turned out to be the perfect trick for what the customer wanted, without using candy. Those pics of that harley tank and fender in your "taped stage topic" were the same bike, but i never got any finished pics of it, and I already gave it back, and i have done the same to another harley but dont got any pics of it either, I know both guys, so I should probably get some pics of the bikes all together ah??? I just always forget..........dont know why, but it pisses me off, cause i barely have anything to show for myself......

Keep in mind that I use DUPONT paint always, and their basecoats that I use, Chromabase and Chromapremier are very transparent, they use a shade value system that MUST be followed exactly or you wont get the desired color, its much more transparent than almost every other brand of paint, and can kinda piss me off sometimes, but its just something they do.