Heat Sensitive Color Changing Candy Automotive Paint (BMW X6 - Incredible Hulk)

[Street Guardian USA]

 

[kamkar]

hehe yeah those paints are pretty cool, just a fjew problems.
1. i would like for them to keep the new color a little longer ( proberly hard to do )
2. if it take boiling water to get a result your car will only change color in bright sunshine, and then change color as it drive and get cooled down by air moving over it.

The last i would love to see as i think that would be pretty cool as the car ( i assume ) change color from the front to back back, and then the lid over the engine might change again as engine heat up.

I would prefer a full car color change by a flick of a switch.

 

[jokiin]

 

[parklawn]

Wish it were so. That really would be awesome 🙂

 

[kamkar]

Yeah that would freak with a lot of minds, i would set mine to slowly toggle thru all colors as i drive. 🙂

It would allso be nice if it could start to change folor in one end ( front ) and then slowly move toward the rear of the car, or maybe the same up/down on the car,,,, or both

 

[Dashmellow]

Talk about distracted driving! Who needs texting?! 😀

 

[Nigel]

It would allso be nice if it could start to change folor in one end ( front ) and then slowly move toward the rear of the car, or maybe the same up/down on the car,,,, or both

Try driving passed one of these without getting distracted:

And that was a standard MG colour, there are quite a few about!

 

[DT MI]

I've seen a few cars painted with various 'color shifting' paints - they are a bit distracting in the right light because at first you're not sure of what you're seeing then it's just fascinating.

 

[Dashmellow]

I've always been fascinated by prismatic paint. It's called ChromaFlair (pdf) and it's made with tiny synthetic flakes about one micrometre thick that are constructed of aluminium coated with glass-like magnesium fluoride embedded in semi-translucent chromium. The guy who owns a body shop I used to take an older vehicle of mine to used it on a few jobs and showed me some samples and what it looks like in the can. He said it could be challenging to apply properly and was outrageously, prohibitively expensive for most applications. Not too long ago I noticed a local store sells a line of very expensive vacuum cleaners painted with the stuff and from what my body shop friend told me I figure the machine would have cost 20% or more less with a different finish on it.

 

[Nigel]

He said it could be challenging to apply properly and was outrageously, prohibitively expensive for most applications.

It was expensive when it first came out but now it is reasonably cheap, you can even buy diy touchup spray cans of the standard MG colours and they are surprisingly easy to paint decently, although a bodyshop would still try to charge you vastly more to do it even though they are painted in the same way as standard paint, just need a bit more care with the base layers and amount applied.

The more subtle colours are quite nice, but still distracting:

 

[Dashmellow]

When it was first introduced a kilo of the powder went for $6,400 per kilogram compared with less than 300 for common pigment. Apparently now you can buy a litre of the paint for around £250-350 which still seems pretty dear. Still, I'm glad to hear that the price has come down to where it might be reasonable to consider it for the right project. I think I'd rather see it on other people's vehicles though.

 

[kamkar]

hehe i have a big jar of holoflakes, but it is the huge ones thats a pain to spray and not least cover.

Problem is the ones i have is meant for powder coating, when i was doing that for a fjew years i treated myself to a little holo flake in case i should ever need it.

Haved tried it once in a body for one of my friends 1/5 onroad race cars, in no light the body was pretty boring, sort of a greyish like ( you paint backwards on those transparent lexan bodies as you paint on the inside to protect paintjob )
So holoflake and clearcoat whent on first, and then a bottom of black to finish it off.

So in no light the body was pretty boring, but then the sun was on it exploded as the huge flakes ( about 1 Sq mm each if not larger ) is quite big for a 1/5 scale car body, allso we did overdo it with the holoflake 😎

PS. i call those chameleon paints for "Brian" paints, here its mostly to be found on class #1 smartasses cars 😀

 

[Nigel]

When it was first introduced a kilo of the powder went for $6,400 per kilogram compared with less than 300 for common pigment. Apparently now you can buy a litre of the paint for around £250-350 which still seems pretty dear. Still, I'm glad to hear that the price has come down to where it might be reasonable to consider it for the right project. I think I'd rather see it on other people's vehicles though.

I think a litre of paint is enough for a whole car with some to spare, part of the colour you see comes through from the base coat which is plain cheap paint, the special stuff is only a single fairly thin coat, doesn't work so well if you put too much on, and then there is a standard clear coat on top which you want a decent thickness of.

 

[Dashmellow]

I think a litre of paint is enough for a whole car with some to spare, part of the colour you see comes through from the base coat which is plain cheap paint, the special stuff is only a single fairly thin coat, doesn't work so well if you put too much on, and then there is a standard clear coat on top which you want a decent thickness of.

Thanks, I know how cars get painted. Actually, from what I was shown, ChromaFlair is applied thicker than many coatings to allow for the depth the prismatic effect requires. Even though ChromaFlair has dropped in price it still makes for an expensive paint job.

 

[Deleted member 46308]

Talk about distracted driving! Who needs texting?! 😀

😀

 

[roadbug]

I watched a video online about rich kids in I believe it was China driving around in expensive cars. Everyone had expensive cars so they had to have something more and some of the cars were panted with electroluminescent paint. As they drove along in the videos the cars would light up and change colors. Can not find the video but found a youtube video about the paint:

 

[Nigel]

Thanks, I know how cars get painted. Actually, from what I was shown, ChromaFlair is applied thicker than many coatings to allow for the depth the prismatic effect requires. Even though ChromaFlair has dropped in price it still makes for an expensive paint job.

The stuff used by the car manufacturers has the same particle size as standard pearlescent/metallic paint so that it can be applied using standard equipment/robots. Paints for customisation can have huge particles, makes them more glittery but doesn't give a bigger flip effect.

 

[Dashmellow]

The stuff used by the car manufacturers has the same particle size as standard pearlescent/metallic paint so that it can be applied using standard equipment/robots. Paints for customisation can have huge particles, makes them more glittery but doesn't give a bigger flip effect.

Then you are not talking about the original and genuine ChromaFlair coating which requires a depth to allow for the up to 45 degree particle viewing angle to properly achieve the desired effect. The product is quite different from standard metallic paint finishes. It has nothing to do with the size of the particles which is around one micrometer, for customization or otherwise, it has to do with the unique layered qualities and shapes of the particles and their respective refractive qualities.

 

[SawMaster]

One of the earliest 'color-shifting' paints on cars was "Cinnamon Emberglow" used on some 1966 Ford cars. It could look dark gold, brown, or red according to what kind of light it was in. I wish I still had that car- it's worth about $25K now!

Phil