Murdered Candy, A Custom Paint Technique 

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Thank you very much. My dad taught me how to paint, before he passed away. I always appreciate new techniques and tips and tricks.

Thank you Chris, I put it to the test and my air tank came out outstanding. Beautiful Black Chery. Keep Up the great work. Rey

Thank you so much for sharing so much knowledge that is helping to change careers, by learning all of the techniques that you teach, and being able to provide paying customers with quality work and products. My eyesight has become way too poor to continue doing tattoos, after 40+ yrs in the industry, but with your help, I'll be able to support myself doing something I love and tinkered around with over the years. I could never charge money for anything less than quality work, and you always provide very thorough videos that I can understand easily and learn quickly. After I can finally afford corrective surgery I might not even go back into tattooing because I know I'll be very satisfied painting and airbrushing with your products, and your instructions to keep knowledgeable about everything that you teach. I'm gonna be going back thru your archived videos and binge watching everything that I haven't seen yet, and I really want to learn how to paint with water based automotive paints, if it's something that you recommend, and have videos that I can find to watch. I'm really just beginning this journey, and I hope it's a very fruitful experience, because I'm willing to do anything I need to do to get as good as I possibly can, because as you surely know..... there's no amount of money that equals the pride we feel when we do something amazing and make our customers happy. The money is just a side effect that allows us to keep doing what we do. Thanks again PEACE

Very cool! What I really love about the Createx lines, is that you can pretty much mix anything with anything.. A lot of creative freedom.

Insane! Love this on my lil 97 hardtop convertible mini Nissan truck! Just insane. Well done!

What an absolutely awesome affect, understated but so wicked in the sunlight. Thanks for sharing, I wanna try this so bad now.

This is amazing!!! With the reflection of the light, the tanks have a deep 3-D effect. Great work.

You are an excellent teacher my friend.

Great video! I remember a 65 Riviera lowrider that had this type of paint job in the late 60's in Socal. The entire car looked jet black until he turned the corner,then the side's lit up like nothing I had seen! Just one color after another would pop out at you

Great work. I’d love to see the new Corvette painted in that red.

This might be my favourite so far. I have a 2010 Triumph Street Triple motorcycle that would show off this colour so well.

I wish I knew about this technique when n I built my obs suburban. I wanted it black but with a hint of red. I always thought it'd be a pearl that made the effect... thank you for sharing this.

I've just done a honda monkey tank with gold leaf and marbleing, there's certainly a fine line between not bad and WOW , love your work 👍🦘

I sure live this video and the effect. I have a 1953 Ford pickup. The murder red would look great on it. Now I have to find a shop that has experience doing this.

Another great one man! You are one of the best sources for instruction on this subject. Thank you!

You have the coolest job.

Once i get my dream car im definitely going to try to get that sparkle blue one. Thats looks amazing. This technique with a purple would look great too

If Chris wasn't here, I wouldn't be able to figure out a damn thing! Thanks Chris!

That looks great. Thanks for the tips.

Came out beautiful

Pretty much the color I want my car. Black as night with just a hint of red below

I did this last night on a guitar and it looks amazing. What a great way to use candy black!

Hi Chris excellent tutorial, I watched your video several times before attempting this paint scheme for my project Bike and it turned out awesome Thanks for the Informative videos Herman K NB Canada

Dam. That's beautiful work my friend 👍👍

I've been trying to get a similar effect in the realm of polishing black dress shoes. But I've been having poor results so far. This helps quite a lot.I've got some new ideas that I'm excited to try!

This is unbelievably cool! I really hope I'll be able to do this someday

really killer effect !!! so beautiful thx for sharing art skill 👍👍👍

OMG.....it is totally freakin SCREAMING...just Beautiful ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ so loveinging it 😱 I so want it ....

Wow that looks great.

Looks fantastic 👍

Mad painting skills bro!

Wow your the man bro . What a really beautiful effect I tried it out over sparkle green and it came out just like how u show in your video . Great job bro . U r the man !!!

Nice deep finish, your the Paul Walker of the spray booth thats with the top down. Great vid👏👏

That's exactly what I'm looking for!!!!! but I'm curious if a much larger flake is possible in blue...????

Looking good CC!

Very good. Obrigado pela legenda em portugues Brasil e ficou um trabalho impecável desde o local e a apresentação do video.

Just had my bike done in the murdered candy red , its turned out amazing 👏

I would love to have that blue on my already black triumph. 😍

Was thinking Ferrari red but now you got me thinking. Cool effects!!

What can’t this guy do? Sins you’re a legend.

Hey Chris, Jerry here. It's been a while. I just re-watched this video and I'm going to give this a try on my neighbor kids ATV. As always you make it look so easy. I have had some great successes with the candy2O paints. now I'm going to try the hot rod sparkle. There still is no 4050 clear around here so I'm ordering it again. I did a small tank a while back with the candy2O blood red and I used some Molotow liquid chrome for my base. let it cure for about 30 days then the red candy20 over the liquid chrome and WOW. one light coat and then three medium coats and the depth was amazing. Three coats of clear and a little polishing and it looked really nice. I know iv'e told you before but thank you so much for these videos. Following your advice and your techniques has really stepped up my painting skills. I'm getting some really nice, professional looking finish products. Thanks again. Take care and Wishing you and yours a great 2023.

black cherry.. awesome spray, thx for sharing! 8D

I love the Mr. Rogers style intro. Oh me? Just dropping some sparkle. I can't agree more on the conservative use of black candy. I just got finished re-laying deep red over gold marble/black for a similar effect, and 1 coat of black candy was fine, but 2 was overkill. I would lean towards bright candies under black. The clear isn't going to magically bring the color back if you go overboard with the black. If it goes black, it's just a very expensive black paint job.

Hell hath no fury like a painters Wrath 👊

How the pro's inspire. Nice work.👍

Very cool, thx 4 showing... 👍😎

Awesome color! I'm sensitive to isocynades, and see you using just a dust mask. Is that just because you're only spraying a small amount? Or is the product iso free? Beautiful color and effect, can't wait to try it!

Saved this video, hopefully in a few years my 2010 Jeep srt8 will be sporting that murdered candy red. 😍

New Britain, CT here nice job man

Thanks for this vid bro, great stuff, saludos from Mexico!

Sweet effect!

That would look killer on our black Charger RT. We've already done the carbon fiber hood with a candy red overspray. I wish that I could upload a picture to show you the hood.

Looks sick. I think I’m going to try something like this on my channel. Thanks for sharing

I have a pearl red Challenger RT that I always wanted to paint candy apple red ombre to almost black if I could ever afford it. After watching this I think this technic transitioning to maybe a deeper candy apple would look perfect. A woman can dream right.

ok, that looks almost identical to my passat's Colorado Red Pearl LB3Y .... and i couldn't be more happy

Excellent job bro have a question have 63 impala going to paint it black what pearls ghost pattern to use thanks

Thanks for sharing!

CHRIS I WATCH EVERY VIDEO YOU'VE DONE. YOUR AWESOME !!!!! I BOUGHT PAINTS THAT YOU USE . I'M JUST WAITING FOR MY AIRBRUSH . STAY WELL PROFESSOR.

Way to explain every coat great detail thnks

The... the master of paint!

This should look great on guitars as well. Looks awesome!

I like the way the gold is more subtle. My bike is Black Pearl and it has subtle blue flake in the sunlight. Almost too subtle though.

Man I love this color

I have a 97 tl1000s that’s Pearl Novelty Black. It’s same style. Looks black most of time but in sunlight it’s a deep blue metallic. Beautiful color and expensive OEM. can you match closely?

Cool video! Question though, how would it look to do the hot rod sparkle white and then the blood red coat? Would the red pearl be brighter overall or just about the same? Im after the same effect but want it to be more RED than burgundy/black cherry in the light.

Looks awesome

Very nice effect! Would a satin/matte clear completely kill this look or would I get some effects?

Would love to see gost flames and skulls with matalic 3D effect or a slight shift almost like heat pipes with skulls from Harley Davidson Beautiful work 💕💕💕💕😘

Need this on my dually

I want that paint gun. That looks amazing! thanks for the video

That last black tint coat is what you see as the side cast ... very cool video

Awesome sick effect.

Is it correct to say that you sprayed the first 4 coats with nothing but HotRod Sparkle Red. Then 2 coats of mixture of HotRod Sparkle Red and BloodRed? I ask because that's the step you added after the first four coats at 2:28.

I tried this color but without sparklers and used a silver base coat ..mines looks like a cranberry in the sun ...love paint videos ...

Thankyou for the idea sir,. New sub here from the philippines.😁

Chris, love your work! Keep it coming. Question: when painting model cars like this, would you go with the larger hot rod sparkle or the finer cosmic sparkle with a smaller scale substrate and airbrush?

Silver base&flake. Second coat- blue pearl& blue candy. (To soften the glittering effect of metallic. )

Great work

damn, I want my fender Jag painted that red color

I want the same but purple on my harley. I've been looking for this for 3 years now.

Excellent video..

I have a set of alloys, media blasted, that are 'ripe' for that murdered candy black look. As a newbie to the candy paint (been shooting clear, base and some single stage whites) I've been looking for a Candy Prep how to but they're surprisingly hard to find. Also, the terminology and typical fast pace of the YB clips tend to gloss over (if you pardon the pun) the mixing and timing details. Can you direct me to a how to mix and prep candy tutorial? Love that murdered candy with a red kicker coat.

Can u make a video explaining the clear coats base & application ❤️💯💯👍👌 thanks Brother great video

Nece work 👍❤️❤️❤️❤️ love from India

Soo clean!!

I’ve got this done in blue. Love it. Everyone thinks it’s black

Where can I get the Moulds your using thanks so I can practice great video grate colours

Very cool stuff here , my Victory Vegas 8 Ball is a very nice black, Boring!!!!!. Thank you, I’m going to go the blue and theme my bike Blue on Black!! I love that song. Thanks Bro

Love the finished look. It's exactly the look I've been trying to find. Just wondering if you have ever used this type of paint on anything wood?

This paint looks bad ass!

I've been spending the last few weeks prepping my '68 Firebird for paint and I have decided on this technique. How much 4050 should I order?

Love to see that on a 69 Camaro

Would you be able to use the standard black on a motorcycle tank, fairing, side panels and saddlebags as your base coat? I am getting an idea 💡.

Can you put the candy black in a matte and still get same effect from the red?

My 2012 G37X has a similar paint if it's dirty or in the shade everyone think it's black but when it's clean and in the sun it's looks like a dark cherry. Which I love but somebody hit it and I had to replace the hood and bumper. And the shops I took it too I'm not satisfied you can clearly tell the difference. Even the Infiniti repair shop is having troubles getting the color right. It's a factory color u think they would be able to match it. But I know it's a complicated color so I'm not after perfection but everyone who sees it ask if I just had the front end painted which tells me that it's not just me but everyone notices it.

A red fleck would be magical 😊

that's cool video. Thank You

I was thinking about doing something like this with my E36 with a black base with a white micro flake, reflective mid coat, tinted coat over the mid coat, then clear. But was at the dealership today and saw the grey they're putting on their cars now and started reworking ideas for the upcoming paint job. Do you have any idea if this would work over a mid/dark grey with a white/blue flake mix, a very light blue tint, and a black tint, topped with clear?

Nice cant wait really want to get into this but got to with this crap going around but man that looks good bro. When I get back to work I'm definitely getting me that harder and Steinbeck and some of those colors to play with.👍😎👍