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Varnish coat is treated as a whole by the vehicles manufacturers. It provides specific features, the visual effect of which plays a very important role. The painter usually divides the coat into the components, being aware that the base varnish and the co

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First, let us try to answer the question of who a colourist actually is? For outsiders, it most probably means an employee of a varnish mixing shop. However, it is not so straightforward. A colourist is not someone who works at a mixing lab and makes colo

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If we have ever tried to paint any surface ourselves, there is one thing we all must have tried to avoid – runs. This applies to both amateurs and professionals, decorators and car painters. No matter what paints we use and whatever their application, the

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We may associate the phrase “paint repair” only with a complete respray, which involves filling and sanding, but this isn’t always the case. Sometimes we may be able to fix even deep scratches in the paintwork ourselves although we may have no professiona

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The two factors which make a car stand out from other cars – often of the same make – are the shape that attracts attention and the colour of the car body. While the car design is something we have no control over – we either like it or not, the colour is

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In order to answer that, it is worth recalling a certain story from the past. At the beginning of the car boom, Miami was an automobile transhipment and distribution centre for the whole USA. Often cars spent months on the parking lot, waiting to be loade

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Shading is a painting method which allows for smooth and practically unnoticeable passage from the old surface to the new, freshly-painted surface. Shading is extremely important when reconstructing painted surfaces, since absolute 100% color matching and

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If the title sounds like a topic for a lesson in school, that’s because it is sometimes worthwhile to remind ourselves of basics and organize our knowledge systematically. For beginners, this will be a handy compendium of the most important issues in pain

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Each year, new models of cars appear on the market, and with them come new colors. Automotive designers have something in common with fashion designers – they all want to surprise the customer with something new and different. New shapes, a better engine,