BuellyBagger
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So heres all the parts with 3 coats of the ground coat white.
Now with 3 coats of pearl. No, pearl is not hard to spray, just 2 even medium wet coats and then a "effect" or "orientation" coat which u do by lowering the air pressure slightly and pulling back a ways and evenly let the pearl sort of "fall" into place.
Clear coat next. I'll be using Dc5600 with Sm09 flatining agent to make satin clear. it looks milky in the mix cup, but goes on shiny like mormal clear @ first, but as the solvents evaporte out it will slowly become dull. Once the first coat starts to dull out its time for the second coat.
First pic is when the last coat was still wet so it looks very shiny and then after they flash a bit they become satin, really not much shinyer than the basecoat was.
Now all thats left (for me) is to reintstall the fuel cap bezel after letting everything dry overnite.
I also want to paint out some pluses and minuses of satin clear while im on the subject. Advantages include durability, very difficult to put a noticeable scratch in it from cleaning etc. and it looks really cool especially with a metallic or pearl color under it. Disadvantages, u cant wax it, if u buff it it will turn shiny, so that means that ne dirt nibs that end up in the paint are staying there bcuz u cant sand and buff it. Which isnt a huge deal bcuz they r very difficult to see neway since its not shiny. Other than that it acts pretty much the same as ne urethane clear and last for a very long time.
Now with 3 coats of pearl. No, pearl is not hard to spray, just 2 even medium wet coats and then a "effect" or "orientation" coat which u do by lowering the air pressure slightly and pulling back a ways and evenly let the pearl sort of "fall" into place.
Clear coat next. I'll be using Dc5600 with Sm09 flatining agent to make satin clear. it looks milky in the mix cup, but goes on shiny like mormal clear @ first, but as the solvents evaporte out it will slowly become dull. Once the first coat starts to dull out its time for the second coat.
First pic is when the last coat was still wet so it looks very shiny and then after they flash a bit they become satin, really not much shinyer than the basecoat was.
Now all thats left (for me) is to reintstall the fuel cap bezel after letting everything dry overnite.
I also want to paint out some pluses and minuses of satin clear while im on the subject. Advantages include durability, very difficult to put a noticeable scratch in it from cleaning etc. and it looks really cool especially with a metallic or pearl color under it. Disadvantages, u cant wax it, if u buff it it will turn shiny, so that means that ne dirt nibs that end up in the paint are staying there bcuz u cant sand and buff it. Which isnt a huge deal bcuz they r very difficult to see neway since its not shiny. Other than that it acts pretty much the same as ne urethane clear and last for a very long time.
For anyone reading/looking: The plan was a simple white satin (same as 1badtitan90's bike) and i had to fix a minor mess up on my part so i did some hand brushed pinstripe with house of kolor silver. Keep in mind this was the first time i have ever attempted hand pinstriping 
