OK boys and girls I just got notification my paint is in Portland Oregon, which is about 15 miles from my house so that means UPS will be delivering it to me in about 4 days!

I sent Matt some additional info on House of Kolor paint that he thought I should share. It was in response to questions from Matt, so I kind of rambled on. Here it is:


The problem with HOK stuff is it's like a kid in a candy store. The downside with their stuff is the pigments are ground so incredibly small, you have to lay down a lot of coats with some of their colors to get full saturation, but you won't get a lot of film buildup. Keep in mind, you never want to spray HOK overly wet. You can get good coverage with two or three coats of most of the colors, but that's not how you want to shoot it. If you lay it on like most paints with a wet edge it can crack. I have never had that happen, but they tell you not to lay it on heavy. Their white can take a lot to hide stuff under under it, due to ultra fine pigments, but like I said, you won't get a high build and weight gain it just takes a lot and get spendy.


The hot thing they now have is their Primer Sealers that the car guys are using. It comes in several colors and what guys are doing is mixing it to get close to their base color so they don't have to shoot as much base to get good coverage and it keeps the cost down. I haven't tried it yet. It is a catalyzed product. It's supposed to cover really fast.


http://www.coastairbrush.com/products.asp?cat=746



The paint mask material I use is so good you won't need to seal it at all. I just shoot right over it and have never had it leak under. If I think I may get a little bleed I shoot a couple of coats of SG100 intercoat Klear with an airbrush just on the tape edge. SG100 is the same as all the other base paints with no pigment in it.


http://www.coastairbrush.com/products.asp?cat=51



I have never shot their metallic's as their pearls are so gorgeous in the sun. Their pearls look like silk...very subtle. You almost have to get close to them to see they are pearls due to ultra high ground pigments. I would think their metallic's are going to look like most companies pearls.


Their candy's are true candy's. They are a dye like water that you mix with SG100. They must be shot over a base coat and normally require several thin dust coats. They can be hard to shoot.


I buy white by the qt and of course always have black. Other than that, I never keep any of their stuff on hand as it's so expensive. I just lay out my colors and buy what I need as I go. The good thing is, I now have a pretty good amount of left over stuff. I was able to paint one of my Proteus with stuff I had on hand.


Base colors like the red and blue I will be using on this build cover pretty fast. Again I tend to have a thin base of white under them, so they cover pretty fast. The other thing interesting about their stuff is you can shoot them over a black base and have a much different color.


One other thing I find is the color samples they show on their site are shot in very bright light. They look too dark when you shoot them indoors, but look like the samples outside in the sun.