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how's it going guys? I'm going to a tech institute for custom paint and body. Any one knows good booksthat will show me more tricks and tips (graphics, frenching, candies, pearls, etc.) I want some good tricks, thanx for the help.

Well if you go to your school and learn the basics, most of it is all trial and error, some painters have different ways of doing things with same results.
Like my flames are very long skinny and flowing, some make them bigger and tips not as long.
There is so much information out there you just need to go to a book store and look at all the books available on custom paint & choose the one that interests you the most and read it .

Or find a shop that needs a painters helper and see if he will hire you , but this will be hard if you dont have the basics of prepping a car for paint as, some painters dont have time to teach some one how to do it from the start .

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Thanx for the info, I all ready know the basics from small dent repair, shooting pearls, shaveing and frenching. I practice on friends rides and mine, but materials are expensive especially candies and extravagant graphix. So I I'll do what you say get a book that matches my style .

Hi there, I am new to this forum, but old to the painting profession. I started painting signs 20 years ago, and today, still do much of my work the old fasioned way, ( with paint, not vinyl). Altho I dont paint whole cars, I do a quite a bit of flames, striping and other special effects.
One of the best paints that you can use for small areas of special effects, is an enamel called One Shot. Its good for stripes or flames or viola', (!) almost anything. It is extremely tough yet easy to use. It comes in a LOT of stock colors, including pearls and metallics and is relativly cheap. You can buy it at most good art stores. You can also buy bronzing, flipflop, or pearl powders at the artstore that will enhance any paint. They come in tubes and you mix em up yourself. A word of caution tho, they are microfine metal powders, ( copper, bronze, aluminum) and if inhaled, well, not good, so wear a mask when handling them. and practice practice practice....every day.