Topic: approximate color match Candy Bacchus Olive

[mrenfro]

Does anyone know if there is a good one stage application that at least gets pretty close to the original Candy Bacchus Olive paint scheme?

[RAFster122s]

Candy paints are silver base with candy color then clear. Super complex paint job and too much clear darkens the color, too much candy same results and overlaps are challenging...
It would be nice if it were an easy single stage replacement, but so far no such luck...
Besides,are you wanting factory fresh or something aged as many like the patina and color shift of aged candy paints...

[bryanj]

Simple answer No, but if you can find an exceptionally good paint supplier with an employeewith fantastic eye and skill you may get a mixed colour close

[Flyin900]

If you have a panel in decent shape paint wise a body shop paint supplier has an optical scanner that will scan the panel and match it to a close single stage paint. I have had good success with this route on quite a few paint jobs I have done previously.
It will not be a factory candy finish, yet it will have the metal flake and be quite close in the colour and match. Here is one in that colour that came from the US originally. The PO did a colour match on the paint as it isn't a factory finish, yet it looks good overall.

[78whiteorbs]

I nailed this a while back and it is so close most people ,bike people can never tell.
As this was my favorite color I was looking for a car color
Color that would be a very close match.

Found the greens and blues to be pretty easy.

Moss green pearl for a late 80's early 90's Jeep Cherokee is amazingly similar. Also found 3 other colors from jeeps that are as close as it gets.

You can compare stock paint sidecovers next to one and see.

Can be had as 2k single stage in the spraymaxx cans etc

[78whiteorbs]

See!

[78whiteorbs]

Jade candy green=

Jeep rescue green metallic

Jeep hydra blue pearl=

I think planet blue or one of the sapphire Honda blues.

[seanbarney41]

+1...have seen the very striking green colored jeeps driving about and guessed it would be a good match.  Still I want to learn to spray candy.  I believe there is no replacement for the craftsmanship required to do a good candy paintjob.

[PeWe]

Nice JEEP colors!

[Terry in Australia]

Candy isn't all that hard to spray. Like any paint, the prep that you put in will determine the final result, so if it looks sh1t before you lay on the colour, guess what? It'll still look sh1t afterwards. I painted my K0 with candy in spray cans last year, it's not cheap, but cheaper than buying a good compressor and gun, and all of the necessary ancillaries. Really cold days, and really hot days are out, temps between 60 and 70 deg F with humidity below 60% are just about ideal, you don't want your paint to run, but at the same time you want it to flow and settle.

I did mine in early summer last year, so had to paint it early in the morning or late in the afternoon and it was still a bit too dry, which creates "orange peel". It's always a good idea to buy a book on how to spray paint, whether you're using a gun, or a rattle can.

Sunday 7 Mar 2021 9h by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

thumbnail_IMG_2648 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

[Kevnz]

As a bit of trivia, Candy Jade is green dye over a silver base, but Bacchus Olive is Candy Gold ( yes the actual colour) over a blue base. ( blue + yellow = green.) FWIW.