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Hi everyone, Welcome to our small vid on fluorescent colours.
This is valid for Fulldip, PlastiDip and any other peelable paint, liquid vinyls or spray wraps
Hi everyone, Alan here from Matt-Pack
Today, we got our test panel, which you saw us make a while back
We used Fulldip Black, Primer Grey, White, Gunmetal Grey, Carmine Red & Blue
And then we 3K glossed the whole lot, so it looks like a normal panel.
You can then tell if you've got a black car, or a red car or whatever, what the colours going to look like. Over your car.
So, we've been through this many times
Today, we're going to go through Fluorescent Colours, and the importance of spraying them over white!
You HAVE to do fluorescent colours, whether its FullDip, PlastiDip, normal car paint anything we do. Fluorescent colours HAVE to go over WHITE
or they look terrible.
Now, we do put this on the website, and everything, but, people don't really read much. So, hopefully they'll watch a video :)
So what we're going to do now is mask off a bit, we're gonna spray, probably green. Cos thats a popular fluorescent colour
But again, doesn't matter if its the orange, the red, the pink, the blue, the yellow. Any, any fluorescent colours
So we're going to spray this so you can actually see the difference.
Now the key with fluorescent colours, they're a little bit different to normal dips. What we've found works best, obviously warming the cans up
You definitely HAVE to warm the cans up, that's on one of our other videos for the plastidip, gotta be warmed up.
But, it's a good habit to get into. Always warm your cans up, they always spray better. Definitely a good habit to get into.
So we're gonna warm this one up. What we've found with fluorescent is lots and lots of LIGHT coats work WAY better than wet coats.
And if you're trying to get, lets say you're doing the green, and you're trying to get fluorescent green on there.
If you try and do that in 1 or 2 coats, its just going to run down the panel and look terrible.
Lots and lots of light coats and it looks absolutely... as it should look. Looks great, it looks bright.
Looks perfect :)
So we basically are just gonna mask this up, spray a load of coats, you'll see if from different angles n whatever
And you'll see exactly what we mean. You'll see the difference between all the six colours on here, and how they're gonna look. OK.
Speed Mask (tape n drape) is available from our shop in 4 different sizes :)
OK, so thats that masked off, you can see we just made a box. Not going to spray the whole box, no point.
Just a pattern through the middle, its only so you can see the difference
Obviously when you're masking and touching it, you get rubbish on there. So, predip it, as you would normally with any old project.
PreDip and cloths available in the shop :)
Gives the dip a good chance to stick properly.
Not that we're worried, gonna peel off straight away
OK, so we got our green
Now remember, lots of nice light coats work better
As you can see, thats one little light dust coat. Over the black you can't even see it.
Grey, you're getting a hint of the green.
Thats already looking a bright green, very very faint obviously.
The grey.... disappeared
Nothing over the red, nothing over the blue.
So you can see straight away with one little light coat, its already working over the white.
And it's not really working over anything else.
The other key thing to remember, when you're spraying any dips, is, you see this is turning matte now
Once it gets to about 80-90% matte, it's ready for the next coat. If it's still shiny, its too wet.
If it's too wet, spray your next coat, its just gonna run down the panel
So, key is, leaving enough time in between coats as well.
Like I said, once it's mostly matte its ready. If its still shiny its too wet.
Doesnt help spraying this upside down, on a slope. I don't really wanna come round that side
It'll just block the view.
I'll have to.
That's it, so thats the 3rd coat. We're going to have to spray from other way round from now on
Because it doesn't do well upside down
OK, so we're done with that. That's the green on, all dried up now.
Normally, with most colours you put 2 dust coats and then 4 wet coats.
But with the fluoro colours, whether its FullDip, PlastiDip, red, green, blue, any of em. Lots of light coats.
You may put 12...14 coats down, doesn't matter. Just keep going and going and going. It'll all come out nice n smooth, Nice n matte.
It will work fine, and you won't risk runs or anything like that.
So, what we can tell from this... over the black - terrible
Over the Primer Grey, turns a green, but its just a normal green, so you might as well just use green, instead of a fluoro green
Over the White, like we said, you gotta do the fluorescent greens over the White
Gunmetal Grey - nearly as bad as the Black
The Red and the Blue - completely wasting your time, just makes it look awful.
Always, always over the WHITE, as usual with the fluoros we have to say it every single time
People forget. They do fade. Anyone tells you they don't fade, they're lying
So, normally stick this to wheels, badges, trim, stuff like that. We don't really recommend doing a full cars with it.
They fade after a month or two. You can just top em up and they're back to as bright again.
Its just they way fluoros work. Don't worry about it. Don't let it beat yourself up over it.
Right, once we peeled all this masking off, will all be bonded to the dip probably.
There you go
You can actually see now the difference in the green over the white, nice bright fluorescent green, Looks great
OK, thats it for this video. We'll peel all this off later, clean it all up. Ready for the next colour to try over this assortment of colours.
We'll see you then. Ta Ta
Over the BLACK
Over the PRIMER GREY
Over the WHITE
Over the GUNMETAL GREY
RED and BLUE
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