spi intercoat with dupont chromabase?

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Hi guys,

I'm doing my first difficult silver car and I plan on blending into the doors. I've only blended color once without any intercoat or wet bed with so-so results. My question is, can SPI intercoat clear be used with dupont chromabase to make it more transparent? i plan on shooting the quarter panels until they are covered, then using a clear base mixed with what's in the gun to blend into the doors, probably two passes. If spi doesn't play well with the chromabase, does anybody know what product would?

Thanks in advance!
 
Your safest bet would be to use a clear binder from the Chromabase mixing bank. What I've done when I have to do something like that with a paint line I'm not familiar with is look up a paint code that is a tri-stage white and see what they use in the midcoat, I just mix it according to the formula but obviously leave the pearl out. That way you know is 100% compatible.
 
x2. chromabase is a slightly different animal as far as i am aware. i would do a jorge said and use a clear chromabase binder. i have mixed a bunch of different bases in the past with no problem but they were all similar in makeup.
 
I've used SPI intercoat as a base (wet bed? first time I've heard this term...) to blend Chromabase and Chroma Premier into and never ever had any problems. I've never mixed the two products though. I really don't think you'd want to add intercoat to silver.
 
thanks guys. I talked to the guy that I buy paint from and he indeed mixed up some chromabase w/o color that I can mix with my silver. So my next question is...since the color is off a bit, should I just get coverage on the quarters, then flick the base into the door a bit, mix 50% colorless with what's in the gun, flick it out more and be good to go? here's a great video that references what i'm trying to explain. I'm planning on doing exactly this, but I'm wondering if on my last coat if i should spray the last portion of the door where the color will be blended with just the colorless base, so the silver has something wet to land on? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MQ3Yx2h3Rg
 
Just make sure you have one coat of colorless base all over your blend area. Then you can mix clear base into the silver if you are still having a hard time making it look good. But you need that colorless base to help fill sand scratches and to give the subsequent coats something to lat on. Hard to explain.
 
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