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Dezer	Dezer posted 5 Years Ago HOT Topic Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 74, Visits: 1.8K	"As a tribute, McLaren has decked out One Of The 375 with a *full visual carbon fibre body - hand-laid – together with a bespoke blue tinted lacquer" font:https://www.topgear.com/car-news/british/revealed-mclarens-one-carbon-fibre-p1#1 Question:* The car is made entirely of carbon fiber and received a finish to keep this color, how is this process done?
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Lester Populaire	L Lester Populaire posted 5 Years Ago HOT Post Details
L Group: Forum Members Posts: 311, Visits: 13K	+x Dezer - 1/22/2020 1:33:26 PM "As a tribute, McLaren has decked out One Of The 375 with a *full visual carbon fibre body - hand-laid – together with a bespoke blue tinted lacquer" font:https://www.topgear.com/car-news/british/revealed-mclarens-one-carbon-fibre-p1#1 Question:* The car is made entirely of carbon fiber and received a finish to keep this color, how is this process done? It says it in the title... it's just a tinted clearcoat on top of the laminate!
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Dezer	Dezer posted 5 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 74, Visits: 1.8K	+x Lester Populaire - 1/22/2020 2:52:33 PM +x Dezer - 1/22/2020 1:33:26 PM "As a tribute, McLaren has decked out One Of The 375 with a *full visual carbon fibre body - hand-laid – together with a bespoke blue tinted lacquer" font:https://www.topgear.com/car-news/british/revealed-mclarens-one-carbon-fibre-p1#1 Question:* The car is made entirely of carbon fiber and received a finish to keep this color, how is this process done? It says it in the title... it's just a tinted clearcoat on top of the laminate! Do not imagine it could be that simple, here in South America I never saw tinted clearcoat.
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Hanaldo	Hanaldo posted 5 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 2.5K, Visits: 28K	+x Dezer - 1/22/2020 3:16:54 PM +x Lester Populaire - 1/22/2020 2:52:33 PM +x Dezer - 1/22/2020 1:33:26 PM "As a tribute, McLaren has decked out One Of The 375 with a *full visual carbon fibre body - hand-laid – together with a bespoke blue tinted lacquer" font:https://www.topgear.com/car-news/british/revealed-mclarens-one-carbon-fibre-p1#1 Question:* The car is made entirely of carbon fiber and received a finish to keep this color, how is this process done? It says it in the title... it's just a tinted clearcoat on top of the laminate! Do not imagine it could be that simple, here in South America I never saw tinted clearcoat. Hence why they call it 'bespoke'... Tinted clears are quite common in the show car industry. House of Kolor are famous for it.
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Warren (Staff)	Warren (Staff) posted 5 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Administrators Posts: 2.5K, Visits: 8.5K	To those in the paint industry, nothing special. It will just be a colour uniquely blended to their specification rather than an off the shelf coded colour. Warren Penalver Easy Composites / Carbon Mods - Technical Support Assistant
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Dezer	Dezer posted 5 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 74, Visits: 1.8K	I have little knowledge in this part of paints and paintings, I imagined it could be a more complex process. Thanks for the replies guys!
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f1rob	f1rob posted 5 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 237, Visits: 4.8K	You dont tint the lacquer as such you dust with your base colour then clear coat over top Was doing this 25+ years ago on max power cars
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Hanaldo	Hanaldo posted 5 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 2.5K, Visits: 28K	+x f1rob - 1/23/2020 4:25:49 PM You dont tint the lacquer as such you dust with your base colour then clear coat over top Was doing this 25+ years ago on max power cars Unlikely to be what this is. Tinted clear coats are very common, it's how candy paints are made. It's quite simply translucsent pigments mixed into a clear coat system. Traditionally you would spray this over a metallic flake or pearl base to get the typical 'candy' flip. But if you skip that step and spray directly onto carbon, this is the exact effect you will get. Very simple.
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f1rob	f1rob posted 5 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 237, Visits: 4.8K	The car shown is painted with house of kolour polyurethane candy and a gloss lacquer on top. Halando,not as simple as you think If you use a tinted lacquer all your eggs are in one basket so to speak,doing it separately you can get the right amount of colour on to make the carbon " pop" as little or as much as you want . Then your lacquer for your depth an shine
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KLComposites	KLComposites posted 5 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 26, Visits: 3.2K	+x f1rob - 1/24/2020 1:11:09 PM The car shown is painted with house of kolour polyurethane candy and a gloss lacquer on top. Halando,not as simple as you think If you use a tinted lacquer all your eggs are in one basket so to speak,doing it separately you can get the right amount of colour on to make the carbon " pop" as little or as much as you want . Then your lacquer for your depth an shine Agree with Rob here - there's definitely a candy with a clear on top. The surface needs to be able to be cut and buffed in the future. Cutting and buffing a tinted clear only will change the color as you remove material. But I also think this is getting into splitting hairs. The effect is from a tinted clear (candy), which is produced by a lot of manufacturers. Sometimes you tint the top coat, sometimes you do a tinted clear as a base with a true clear over top. It comes down to preference and intended use. In this case, durability and the ability to correct the finish down the road is key, so they'll shoot a clear urethane over the candy base. I spent a few years doing graphic painting on helmets for fun and as a side business - that's the extent of my qualifications on this topic, so this is my $0.02 contribution.
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