CANDY APPLE COLOR PLUS
Plus the Sanding Sealer prep previously of course. If you look closely you might see that I’ve missed a bit of orange peel here and there that I’ll go back to. Buffing using T-Cut The buffed area gleaming Once the orange peel was mostly eliminated I buffed to a high gloss using my favourite T-Cut on mutton cloth. I started with 400 grit then went through 8 to 1500 grit using a rubber sanding block on flat areas. The next step once the lacquer is hard enough is to flat sand to remove any orange peel. Spraying a clear coat gives a barrier against this and maintains an even colour to the red layer. The reason for spraying a clear coat is that if the Clear Red were flat sanded, it would be made thinner (and therefore paler) in patches. I sprayed a whole can of Clear Gloss and then left it to harden. The gloss top coat is shiny right out of the can You can see I have a bit of roughness to the finish at this point, caused by spraying in non-ideal conditions (a strong breeze!) I didn’t sand though as the clear gloss coats would smooth everything out. If I had wanted a darker red, I could have sprayed more coats. Spraying the red, first coat very lightĪ whole can of Clear Red has been applied.
The first few passes of red were applied very light to avoid disturbing the metallic. 65 FB 289/3sp Rangoon Red/Red, 67 FB rustbucket, 68 Coupe 200/6 T-5 Diamond Blue/Blue, 68 Coupe 302/C4 Black, 69 Coupe 200/6 C4, Blue/Black, 69 coupe White/Red, 70 Coupe 390/C6 Auto Gold Metallic/Ginger, 2010 Gold V6/Auto Sunset Gold/Black. Universal clear dye pigments for solvent and water base 1K and 2K. Once the metallic layer was done it was time to start applying the Clear Red. Candy apple is a stock color, so more cars like yours will be at the car show. Reference KS-CANDY-CONCENTRATE-APPLE RED-50ML. The hard anodized metal colors give your R/C vehicle a bold and realistic look - delivering a custom. First pass of gold lacquer over the primer Gold lacquer layer is done The Spaz Stix Candy color line up is the real deal. Here’s the first coat which you can see is quite transparent but it soon builds. I could have used a different gold or Inca Silver. Once the primer was on I sanded it smooth ready for the gold layer. The first step is to spray a coat of white primer to give an even base for the metallic layer. You can use a prepped body in sanding sealer of course! I think this could be for one of two reasons: firstly Fender may have had a special order for a custom colour and not had any bare bodies so used a stock sunburst body or secondly they may have just been sunbursts gone wrong that were sprayed over to hide a mistake.
This is actually something that Fender often did as it’s not unusual to find a sunburst under a custom colour. I’m using the Guitarbuild body that I previously sprayed with a 2-tone sunburst. I have itemised the process in my Lacquer FAQs. Candy Apple Red is based on the old custom car technique of spraying clear lacquer over a metallic base coat, and was Fenders only truly “custom” colour, all the others being repurposed car finishes.
CANDY APPLE COLOR HOW TO
Below I’ll show how to achieve a Candy Apple Red finish on a Stratocaster body.
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