I had no idea it was a tri-coat. lol It sure didn't look like it. Oh well.

Just followed a '05 GTO on the way home tonight, that red sure looked good!

My Mustang is "Malino Red". It is a Honda/Acura color. I know that the newer versions of it are tri-coat but if you go back a few more years it is not. I don't know paints but that is what I was told when I had a new hood painted. I will dig up my paperwork and provide the details.
W.

Here is a picture of my car before its current tear down. (Thanks for the instructions Bill)

It can be used as a bc/cc or tri-coat. The formula for the base is the same for either. The mid coat has just enough magenta in it a color the binder. I for one would just leave the mid-coat out. I will be having a 1/2 pint mixed up to shoot. The nice thing about Milano is it has ALOT of pigment.

Mike

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Thanks Mike, I didn't realize that. Obviously I'm out to lunch on the technical side of paint.

muscle
 

that makes no sense.
most normal 3 stage paints, have a ground coat, which usually is alot light and full of pearl/metallic. then the mid coat is a darker shade of main color (lets say red) and very translucent (does not cover well) and it takes 3-5 coats to darken the ground coat or till you reach the color you want or are trying to match, dodge did a bunch of 3 stage colors on there cars etc in the early 2000's, a real **** up, heres some i just did last week, and there is no way you could get same color from ground coat with no mid, or by mixing same color in 2 stage, no way.
this is a pic of the 3 stage i just did i repair to, on a 2001 dodge mini van, color is inferno red.
first pic is mid coat(2nd coat) 2nd pic is color of mid coat, 3rd pic is ground coat can,4th pic is ground coat, which is first coat
see how in mid coat pic, it is very translucent on top where you can see right thru it then on bottom it is dark as there is more down there, then over on ground coat you can see how much pearl/metallic is it, thats the whole deal to 3 stage is you can spray the mid coat till you get desired darkness or effect if doing an overall, and it will look entirely different if you put one coat of mid coat or 4 coats of mid coat.

Just got word from Stielow (threw a friend) that the Red Witch is a '94 Mopar color in Sikkens.

late 90's ford color i beleive called rio red... its a solid non-metalic red that used a "base" red, and a transparent red mid coat, although there is an alternate formula that is standard BC/CC.... that matches better than the tri-coat formula.

there are a lot of options on the "right" red in ones eyes.... my personal flavor is viper red...i like the orange tint.

I saw a '06 Jetta in Salsa Red the other night that looked nice, it's a deep, but still true red...that's what I'm looking for!! :thumbsup: