Topic: Quality Red Paint is EXPENSIVE

[grumburg]

Bought a pint of custom mix red DuPont Chroma Base for my S90 project and with the clear it was $97 . Decided it's no use going to all the prep work and using cheap paint.

[BobbyR]

Body guys tell me Red is the most expensive paint.

[ColinMc]

Yup, red and yellow...the two most expensive colors. If you can get away with a 1/2 pint see if they will mix that. For your average tank/fenders a 1/2 pint will give you a pint sprayable. Plenty for 2 fenders and a tank.

White and black are the cheapest...silvers somewhere in between.

[hosspowerinc]

Try painting a car! I paid $1300 for 1 gal of chroma base and 1 gal chroma clear. Made me wish I only worked on bikes.

[ColinMc]

Try painting a car! I paid $1300 for 1 gal of chroma base and 1 gal chroma clear. Made me wish I only worked on bikes.

You need to make a friend in the paint business....I bet shop price on that base and clear would have been about 40% less.

Or if you mix automotive paint (like i do) then you get it for REALLY cheap lol