Intercoat uses, This is an amazing product!

  • Thread starter Bob Hollinshead
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i also just used intercoat to smooth out sanded clear before airbrushing so the overspray doesnt get caught in the sanding marks
 
I've always heard when doing a repair on lighter metallics(silvers and golds) you should spray one coat of a clear base(intercoat) to fill the sanding scratches so the metallics lay properly?
 
when laying those silver dual ghost flames you see in my sig (toughest project so far) i sprayed intercoat to fill in any sand marks and sprayed the silver right afterwards while intercoat was still wet to get it smooth with no deviat reflections. silver is tough. gotta have everything just right!
 
It's not only that, actually if you have sanded fine enough that is not the problem. The problem is the way metallics lay a cured finish compared to the way they lay on a fresh coat of base. You can see this by looking at your first coat of base, it will usually not look quite right until you get another coat on it because the second coat lays better on top of the first. I think it has something to do with the way the underlying coat temporarily absorbs a bit of the solvent from the fresh coat. Intercoat or clear base gives you that first coat, so the blend will lay out nicely.

But you don't need the intercoat on areas that will receive full basecoat coverage, only where the color is to be faded out on adjacent panels.
 
i may use intercoat to level out my true fire before a coat of cobalt blue, because it can get a bit landscaped.
 
Another use that seems to be working out. A foundation for hydrographics. I dipped a guitar and rifle stock that I intercoat cleared. Worked great!
 
whats were the steps for painting those exactly? hydrographics=waterbased paint? pardon my ignorance...
 
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