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Hi guys, just a quick bit of info as to why I want to get some info on special paints for car panels. I am nearly finished in year 12. Today I went past a smash repair shop and got a nice wheel arch panel with two average dents and many scratches. I took out the first dent, sanded the entire panel down, then filled the second dent with bog (remember, just practice) and filled a few other cracked areas too. I am going to apply putty, paint and clear coat to this panel to see just how well I can respray and fix a panel (so far so good). What I would love to know, is how to spray shops achieve those AWESOME paint jobs where the car looks like one colour, but when you see the car in the sun, the light makes it look like a whole new colour. For example, I went to the Sydney tattoo convention a few months ago. They had a nice Orange Falcondore, but when you looked at it from ANY angle, the centre of the car was purple and the rest was orange??? If anyone can give me any clues or links as to how you can achieve this paint job I would really appreciate it, as I have a spray gun too, so would love to be able to test it out. Cheers.

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Nissan brought out a few factory paints like this in their 'Midnight Purple' paint series on the GT-R's.

Here's Midnight Purple III. Reddish purple/Blue and in some light you can even see a hint of gold.

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