New Transparent Hobby Paint!!

[ericpetersonSA]

Walmart, Valspar House of Kolor "Kustom Kolor" translucent enamel, pack of six 1-oz colors, blue, orange, green, pink, gold, and red... about $18. You need airbrush thinner, too -- another four bucks.

What a deal!

- E

[Playz with Carz]

[cg4167]

Carl

[rdln66]

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Carl

[kandykarz]

"House of Kolor" is the only custom paint I use on restorations...in fact I would be willing to compare HoK to any other custom paint out there...that is if you use the complete HoK system as recommended; Paint / catalyst / reducer & the Klear as I am...you just aint gonna beat it...you can use PPG all you want, which is another great paint btw that I used before HoK.
So, if you can get it at your local Wal-Mart or where ever then you need to do so immediately before its all gone. Its not allways easy to find, this is the first I hear of it being localy sold over the counter, I have only been able to get it in qt sizes from doing some repair work on a paint shop, & they go from $195 a qt to around $85 for the Kandy Klear paint, looks like the most $$$ is Apple Kandy Red...you can also get some Kameleon dry pearl flakes for around $350 for a jar the size of a D-battery.

If you get some, shot me an email.

S~

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GO COLTS I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT FOOTBALL

[scentofcabbage]

Hi Eric,

Is this paint to be used directly onto the bare metal?
No base coat or anything like that required? And what would
you use as an airbrushed clear over the top?

I'm looking for something that would be more durable than
acrylics. Do you think this paint would be fairly rugged?

Thanks for posting this info.
David

[ericpetersonSA]

Basically no finish coat is *supposed* to be used over a polished clean metal. The small HoK bottles are not acrylic.

Personally, I've found that the hobby acrylics are somewhat tougher than some of the kandy enamels, especially things like the Metalcast and Krylon stained glass paint. Great color -- especially from the Metalcast -- but very, very fragile.

Which is why I mix my own paint now based on an acrylic clear.

- E

[scentofcabbage]

OK. I'll be heading down to the Vancouver, WA Walmart. None of the Seattle area Walmarts say they cary it. Luckily my inlaws live down there so I go there anyway. Actually, if they lived in Hawaii, that would be lucky.

Thanks for spreading the knowledge.
David