Attitude Custom Painting - How-To
The steps involved in doing a 2-tone candyCandy Apple is a tri-stage paint that is basically a clear with dye in it. It is applied over another color (most of the time it would be a metallic paint) to give it extreme depth. Most candy apple jobs are applied over either a silver or gold basecoat. Spraying over different basecoats will give the same color candy apple different effects. If you spray candy apple over white, you will get a brighter solid candy color. Spraying over a black pearl will make the color extremely dark, but you will still see the pearl flakes the same color as the candy apple. paint job
 

This was done using 2 different metallic colors and a solid colorA color that does not contain any type of pearl, metallic, mica..., all under the same candy color.

This should give you an excellent idea of how a tri-stageA tri-stage type paint consists of a basecoat, a midcoat, then a clearcoat. Most 3 stage paints are either pearl or candy paint jobs. Example: If you wanted a 3 stage white pearl. You would first spray a white base, then a pearl coat, then the clearcoat. candy works. You can apply this process to any candy graphic or flame job you would like, including the step about the 'pinstriped outline'.

Be sure and do a test panel before matching or even spraying any candy colors just to make sure you will get the effect you want.

I spend a good 1/2 hour adjusting the metallic basecoat under the candy just to make sure that I got the candy shade I wanted which of course, was to match the rest of the bike's candy color. Since this was a two tone, I had to do test panels on both the metallic colors before shooting the candy.

First step of course, would be to prep the complete body. Once you have it completely prepped and ready for paint, blow off the body and mask it up

Once you have the body inside the booth, do the normal routing. Blow it off, wipe it down with cleaner, blow it off again, then tack rag it.

Spray your sealerA wet-on-wet primer that goes on before any of the paint work. Helps prevents shrinking.. Once you spray the sealer, then you want to spray your metallic base coat that will go under the candy. Here you can see a color I just made up.

I did a test panel beforehand just to make sure that the combination of the base metallic and the candy would come out like the rest of the bike