Quote Originally Posted by brianrupnow
Don---Bronzes and coppers are just about the most transparent metallics that there are. When I was doing a lot of custom painting in the early eighties/late seventies, I used to get some really wild effects on custom paint jobs by using 3 or 4 different shades of primer on a car to lay out flames, panels, etcetera, then overlaying everything with about 5 coats of copper/bronze paint. The only way you could get a uniform colour on the entire vehicle was to paint everything a solid white colour first, then spray the copper/bronze over it. I'm not really up to date on the modern paint chemistries, but I know thats the way it worked with acrylic enamels. The yellow base/clear that I used on my RPU was the same.---Brian
Brian, good points. I have been kicking several colors around in my head, and one day I looked out the window at work and there was a bronze Hummer there. I asked the guy at the parts counter if it was his, and it was. He said the color is called "Orange Fusia" or something like that. I walked out an looked at it in the sunlight, and it really looks like some of the bronzes we used to use way back. I called a paint store and they do show it, about $ 249.00 a gallon.

I never thought about that primer color thing you mention. I'll bet you could alter the final hue by either a light or dark primer. Good points you make.

I'm like most rodders. The final color for the car is the hardest thing to decide on, and we always say "I wonder what it would have looked like if I had painted it ______________."

Thanks Brian for the input.

Don