From: "Marvin Kaye" <marvkaye@lancaironline.net>
Subject: Re: [LML] Re: Paint questions
To: LML
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 20:02:59 -0400
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Posted for "C Krouse" <kc16@qwest.net>:
  I just had a motorcycle painted with a flame pattern that 
  consisted of
  "Harlequin" paint.  The paint is made with a laser which 
cuts 
  a material
  into small prisms to refract the light.  It cost $60 an 
  ounce....OUCH!!
  But, it was reduced with another material in order to 
stretch 
  it's coverage.
  It looks very similar to the paint that I saw on the Lancair 
  Legacy
  prototype.  I have it on a black background whereas the 
  Legacy has it on an
  off-white background.  If they were both the same 
background, 
  I don't think
  I would be able to discern which is which.  If I have it 
  painted again I
  think that I would reduce it even more to see if the density 
  of the prisms
  could be decreased.  I think that would make a really nice 
  effect to have it
  ghosted over the base coat.  The flame pattern on my bike is 
  ghosted, but I
  think that I would thin it even more on a white or light 
  background.
  
  Curtis Krouse N753K  (it's a career)