Topic: Original paint colour (question by Scott Jones)

[Menno]

Hello Scott,

I was typing a reply but the whole topic seems to be gone (?)
Here is my advise:


The brown is a very interesting colour.
It is actually green metallic with candy (see through ink) orange over it.

This creates a really strange combination called candy garnet brown.
The more orange one adds the more brown the colour becomes.
Almost like magic when you paint it.

Candy garnet brown is a nice example to see how these colours can differ due to the experience of the painter.
The darker the colour the less experience the painter has  - he has to add extra layers to cover up misstakes (cloudy paint).

To answer your question; trying to find a 'normal' metallic paint to get close is not easy.
The best you can do is to get a part painted in that colour and go to your local paintshop.
Get a colour map and pic a colour which you thing is close.

Don't try to read it with the computer that will not work as well as your own eyes.

[PeWe]

It will change tone when looking from different angles and when sun is shining on it?
The orange will be seen more from a certain angle?
No metallic sparkles?

If brown metallic is interesting, Peugeot 3008 is available in a brown metallic that look really nice in the sunshine. Not Honda stock look though...

[Menno]

The colour will appear lighter quite much in the sun as it lights up the metallic underneath the orange.
However, you will not see orange, it will remail brown.
It is not like a pearl effect.

Metallic sparkles or flakes are bigger metallic parts.
But if you move up to flake size the colour will be different.
The flakes interact with the candy a lot.

I once added flakes to candy jade green (yellow over blue metallic) but the green remained much lighter.
It was very difficult to get close to the darker jade colour.

Adding ingredients to candy will alter the colour really fast.

[spotty]

many years ago i asked a mate of mine who was an experienced painter to spray a vespa for me in candy gold over black explaining i wanted the paint to flip form black to gold, seems fair right ?

he painted the base black and then started on the candy gold...and it turned brown...metallic brown but brown nonetheless. i questioned my friend on this turn to the turd side colourwise and he said of course that would happen, didn't i know anything ?  i explained to him that i had asked for a certain look and he had not told me this is what i would get. his reply was that i could stop at one coat of gold and it would stay dark brown but the more gold he put over it the less brown it would get, so we used all the gold and , guess what, it still looked like a sparkly turd

luckily i wrote it off 3 days after putting it back together so i never had to look at it again ( and 2 months of left leg in plaster from toes to testes was a small price to pay i thought)