Get that custom paint job for your car with this DIY Metal Flake Paint Article, Featured in the 2008 January Issue of Car Craft Magazine.

The base coat in an automotive paint is one of the most critical layers, as well as being one of the most expensive to produce and apply. Along with a pigment of the chosen visible color, the base ...

In this example, the metal flakes were mixed into a clearcoat and sprayed on the car over a color basecoat, followed by several coats of nonflaked clear, plenty of color-sanding, and then even ...

If you want to paint that rusty metal to make it look new again, you have to remove the rust first. Here's how. The post How ...

The hues are muted earth tones — grays, tans, browns and others — that lack the light-reflecting metallic flake that is typically mixed in with car paint.

We tell you how to treat surface rust, scale rust, and penetrating rust. And even how to stop it from forming, altogether.

The Metal Flake chopper is presently for sale, and the asking price for it is $38,999. It goes with a clean title and manufacturer statements of origin for engine and transmission.

Tropical Glitz carries over 100 custom metal flake colors as well as custom candy paint, pearls, and anything that is needed to customize a car's finish.

Trace amounts of color-shifting pigments, in which precisely layered metallic flakes create subtle, multiple hues, are also popular. Can I expect my paint to last?

The hue called Purpleen is one of 36 ChormaLusion colors now offered by DuPont Automotive Finishes, Wilmington, Del., in its ChromaPremier paint line.