Gun metal/Metallic black options

[Edmundo2]

Anyone studied the options and narrowed down to a favourite. I'm looking for a dark grey almost black with plenty of metallic in it. Going on a small racing car.

[Kidders]

Some metallic black's look almost grey because of the metallic pigment. Ford Sea Grey is quite dark but defo not black. I am biased but I think Panther Black when swirl free is an amazing colour with lots of flake pop.

[7even]

there's also a Volvo black that looks amazing in the sunlight, has a copper/red pearl xirallic.

[mneame]

The Subaru black micas have quite a lot of flake. The come in blue-black mics, red-black mica and gold-black mica. All have the obvious colour tinge in sunlight. If you want a straight metalic black than either Ford Panther black or BMW Diamond Schartz metalic are quite "flakey".

But if you're having the paint mixed as a custom spray, surely you could ask for a bit more flake?

[Kidders]

7even said:

there's also a Volvo black that looks amazing in the sunlight, has a copper/red pearl xirallic.

Volvo 452 Black Sapphire we do a lot of, in redder coarser variant normally with the xirallic tint you mention, it is a nice colour but its not quite as coarse or flakey, or as dark as the yellow darker variant of Panther Black that I've used on my Puma, which has a nice yellow/gold fleck in the sunlight.

BMW Black Sapphire is much finer in appearance and more of a pearlescent than metallic like the two mentioned above.

[jds32]

I can't remember all the different metallic blacks I have sprayed over the years. Panther black is one of the best looking ones and does look really good compared to others.