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the colours im interested in are the new HSV colours
voodoo (blue)
nitrate (silver)
heron white
help???
White will be the easiest to paint, it's a solid colour.
You can paint just colour, or you can clear over it.
If you've never painted before, I'd be looking at doing a soloid colour like this white (or the HSV red, or even the new GTS yellow).
Silver is a metallic, and quite a bit harder to learn - you need to lay the colour down "dry-ish" so the metallic flakes don't sink, and clear over it. Getting your silver coats right will take some practice.
If you have plenty of time to learn, and really want silver, then get yourself some practice panels & start working on them. You'll know when you're ready to paint a car.
Voodoo blue - that's one even I wouldn't attempt at the moment, and I've done quote a bit of DIY painting. Colours like Voodoo have a pearl or candy mixed into the colour (not the clear as per traditional hot rod pearl & candy paint jobs) which is something holden started back in the mid 90s, and first referred to as "Mica" colours.
Getting a consistent, stable colour in this paint is very, very difficult, and the paint tends to be semi-transparent, so the base underneath, and how thick you spray it, plays a huge part.
Even with a lot of practice, it's very easy to end up with 2 different coloured panels, even when painted 30 seconds apart. "Stripes" in the pattern of the spraygun overlap is also a big issue. Best advice for this sort of colour is to get a base colour very similar (like VK Brock blue) and lay it down as a base. It will give you a more consistent top colour. You will need lots of practice with this one, and if you master it, the self-satisfaction will be enormous.
Candy paint jobs (a tinted clear coat, usually sprayed over silver, or another light, flaky metallic) were all the rage in the hotrod scene years ago - and still are to some extent, are very difficult to master, as the amount of clear over the top of the base colour affects the final shade.
In a show car, this spectacular finish is quite OK, but on a street car, if someone scrapes your door, you'll have to spray the whole side of the car to match it again. Voodoo uses a similar principle to candy - but it's mixed into the colour, not the clear. This gives it depth (but makes it hard to reproduce accurately).
So this is where having a consistent base colour is important. Keep it close to the final colour, and you'll improve your final colour shade consistently, and end up with a far better job. If you need to redo a panel, you use the same solid base, then the voodoo over the top, and it will give a closer, more consistent result.
Base colours can be used to your advantage too - as well as the example above, they can also be used to give an interesting effect, or change the shade of the colour in different lights.
Mazda had a colour out in the 90s called "Passion Rose" on the rounded 626 (last shape shared with the Testar). It looked pretty crap on the factory cars, as it was painted over a beige base coat. A mate painted a HQ Monaro in it, using a black base, and the thing was like a deep candy burgundy colour, and looked magic. The black base had a huge effect on the final colour shade.
