ek rear end lounge chair

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Post by Harko »

Its called Winefire candy red , some old paint I had left over from a bike .

This thing was a basket case aswell ,Bit of hard work will make anything into a trophy :)
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Post by matches »

i'm pretty new to candy colours, what base do you put down first to get that finish? i'm seriously think of that colour for an ek, but have never sprayed candy before.
P.S: sorry for hijacking, i just love the colour.
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No worries mate , Its made by SEM paints and I used a silver base then 2 coats of candy ,then 2-3 clears.

There is a bit of an art to spraying candy so Id recomend reading up on it and picking a smaller job with less open flat panels to perfect it .
1 tip I use is mix wet enough to spray from 30-40cm away to allow the paint to fall onto the job .
And let us all know how you go along the way :)
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Post by matches »

cool thanks harko, i've asked a few spraypainter mates about painting candy and they said DON'T! so now i'm looking at the house of kolor candy bases, they apparently give a candy look but are easier to spray (not as much tiger striping) thanks again L&K
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Post by Devilrod »

The striping actually occurs in the candy not the base, but I have heard of the House of Kolour stuff. Similar to candy but more like convential metallics to apply.
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Here are a few pics of one I built a few years ago......

It was the rear of a wagon that was factory black on black with a red interior, a pitty it was too far gone..
This wagon actually donated a lot of parts to the rebuild of a rusty ute, a nice sedan & i used some of it's roof as patch panels on my old 64 chev :wink:


The first cuts are made by another member from here just after he'd cut some pillar sections to go in a ute & we'd already taken the roof off. Back when I had a beard....
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Then I'd welded on some legs to it & pete had sandblasted it.
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Then I welded in some plate to give some strength joing the outer to inner ody sections.
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Then after a rub down & full paint prep my younger brother blew some straight black witha heavy blue metalflake on it. This picture was taken after a week of dust settled on it in my shed & does it no justce at all..
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Got to this stage & I was about to finish the seating part when some issues happened in my day to day life & I now assume my ex has had it finished by someone else...... :roll: I had trimmed an FB seat to suit the upper & ower sectons, I welded in some cross braces to the rear of it as well.
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Now I have another one already cut that I will build from an automatic sedan some day. :)
trying to save some heritage before the scrappies crush it all...........
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here are some pics finally of my project lounge chairs......
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Is anyone else planning a couch? i have since had one blasted and undercoated and will post pics of progress, when i get around to it..
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matches wrote:harko, what colour is that? it looks great!
Its called winefire by SEM ,candy over base silver
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