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Originally Posted by FastPaced
My f***ing god, that looks great. Can't wait to see more 
Btw, did you ever get the Lip?
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thanks man yeah its in shipping
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Originally Posted by Mr&Mrs
Looks great doc! Any chance I could get that paint mixture from you? My Z will probably be getting painted soon im loving that color!
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Its the new gray shade which is on Lambo Aventadoor, I just slightly added silver and aluminium more.
Ok now the details, very happy with the paint itself and the paint job.
I went for Dupont chromobase paint, including dupont epoxy primer, thinner, activator and their new chromo clear coat. I have visited their main office here in Dubai to discuss the whole project and was advised on some things which turned out nice.
This is the thinner and chromo clear coat which was used. According to lots of reviews this clear coat gives the least amount of swirl marks, more like scratch resistant.
First always use all compatible materials and then followed their guidelines on mixing, spraying and curing.
Car was primed in their epoxy primer which gives the best binding for paint.
They advised me to first warm the whole car at 60 deg C which was done then basecoat. As this colour is kind of 2 stage so first it was painted 3 coats of first base coat which was more blackish then 2 coats of aluminium and silver mixture. result was like the pic I posted before and below.
Really happy with the outcome of the shade, very very close to what I wanted. I was tempted to do matte clear coat as it was looking really HOT.
I was advised to do 4 coats of clearcoat if I was looking for a showcar finish. Two coats first then sand the whole car with 1500 grit paper a quick compound polish and then again 2 coats. But after doing 2 coats I was satisfied and called it a day. 4 coats would have been better with some brighter colour.
I like how the shade changes from silver to GM to dark GM.
