It takes a very skilled painter to put Kandy on evenly over a 'normal' base. You can put it over one of HOK's Kandy base coats, again, to minimize the amount of skill needed. It is VERY transparent, you will see everything underneath it! The base color has a big impact on what your final color will look like. Silver, gold, black, pearl, white, whatever. You must put real Kandy over a base color. It is catalyzed and reduced exactly like HOK's finish clear, and 'could' be used as a topcoat, although you really want to put a regular clear over it, to protect it from wearing off, and becoming blotchy. Kandy paint, UK, or Urethane Kandy, in this case, is really a topcoat clear, that has color dye added. That topcoat is usually clear, but candy, then clear is another option, as I told Tim. It goes on thin, covers fast, and abosolutely NEEDS a topcoat to be weather resistant, it uses no hardener in the mix. Kandy basecoat (KBC) is relatively opaque, though, as stated, it does change shades over different color primers/sealers. I might add, as well, that the paint itself is different. So for my purposes KBC seems to be the way to go, maybe with your tricks on top. I hate how rock chips stand out on candy paint, almost as bad as a mis-matched touch-up. I'm planning on driving my car a lot, so I've been looking for candy-like effect without the risks of a true candy. I'll just have to be careful who I park next to. I haven't had a chance to compare the look of HOK KBC to a real HOK candy, but I trust what you said. Actually those two cars I was comparing both used real candy. The 'only' downside is that the color does get darker with added coats of candy.Ĭhopolds, thanks for the tips, I'm still in the research phase and am taking as much advice as I can get. I like to add just a pinch of ultra mini flake in the candy when doing this to add the needed sparkle, to add the glitter, to go along with the depth. You can cheat a bit and make it look more like true candy, but without the critical paint skills needed to lay candy on, by putting a coat or 2 or 3 of real candy OVER the KBC. While KBC is the same color as real candy, it doesn't have the depth, or sparkle of the real deal. TimBob.KBC is a nice shortcut, but as you compared PPG to KBC, if you saw HOK's 'real' candy next to the Basecoat candy, you'd see a big difference as well. This pic of my fender doesn't do it justice: The PPG looked great on its own, but not next to the HOK. I saw cars with similar colors of HOK candy and PPG candy next to each other at a show, and there was no comparison. I used Brandywine, and if I hold it next to any other reds it makes them look pink, orange, or brown. The cost of the KBC was actually less than the factory high-pearl paint my friend bought for his project. Do a test piece though, because if you get compatibility problems the paint manuf won't help you. Never heard of any problems doing this, plus it's nice for the painter to work with a clear they're familiar with. I talked to a few painters who have used HOK bases with PPG and Dupont clears. PPG clearcoat worked fine, with PPG primer beneath. The KBC was sprayed with a touch-up gun (good gun was broken), and it still didn't show any signs of the blotching or tiger stripes I've seen on some real candy jobs. But over a consistent sealer color, there is little color difference between 4 and 5 coats. KBC isn't totally opaque, so the sealer color makes a difference (I used black and silver). It should take about the same skill as laying down any of the latest high-pearl factory colors. The idea with the KBC line is that the finished job looks like a real candy, but it's actually applied like a base/clear. I agonize over these things, so I bought a pint and had a painter buddy spray a fender with combinations of two sealer colors and 3,4,and 5 coats of KBC. I'm contemplating their Kandy Basecoat (KBC) for one of my cars. I talked about it in another post but was a bit O/T, so I'll just copy and paste it here where it might do some good. Just did a test fender with different basecoats (silver and black) and different numbers of coats of the KBC. I tried a pint of the Kandy Basecoat, but brandywine (KBC-01).
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