Duplicolor Metal-Cast

[Tekime]

Is awful. This is just a warning to anyone looking for good metallic paint for your case. I wasted the last week trying to paint the top of my case with this stuff. It looks great, that is if you can get it apply well. Which is probably near impossible since it drips, foams, and sprays everywhere. I thought I might have a bad can, but it is the design which sucks. The spray is supposed to come out in a vertical pattern, presumably to paint your car faster (its purpose). But the pattern is too wide and it hits the lip of the can directly in front of the nozzle. I don't see how they didn't notice this.

Anyway, I'm ready to ditch the paint, perhaps I'll find a new nozzle to see if I can preserve the rest though. It looks pretty purty, the parts that aren't all drippy that is.

[web56n]

even if it's messy try spraying from farther away from the object, and just put on lighter coats a few times.....

[Tekime]

If only it were that easy. I tried it from far away, close up, at an angle, straight, you name it. The lip causes the paint to sputter just as far as the mist spray. Maybe it doesn't normally have this wide of a spray, but if not the engineering is plain awful.

[XP1800]

Can't you cut or mod the tip somehow so the paint doesn't spray against it? Also, look around online for different spray caps. I know my one friend who is into graffiti order caps by the bundles offline. They come in all sorts of shapes for different applications.

edit: Or you could just get different paint

[Tekime]

Yeah, actually one of my friends has a big box of graf tips he's going to lend me I figured I would try those instead of buying one of those gun looking ones. It's rather frustrating that I've wasted half the can making a mess and wasting time though. Kind of makes me want to use a different brand

[Gary UT]

Originally posted by Tekime
Yeah, actually one of my friends has a big box of graf tips he's going to lend me I figured I would try those instead of buying one of those gun looking ones. It's rather frustrating that I've wasted half the can making a mess and wasting time though. Kind of makes me want to use a different brand

I had the same problem, you can turn the nozzle in the tip and rotate the spray pattern. I never could get the look I was after and gave up on the Metal-Cast paint.

Gary