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Question on Summit paint and "drop coat"

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old_blue

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I was reading they require 2-3 medium wet coats and then a drop coat? what is a drop coat? I am not a painter so this is new to me. I always thought 2-3 light coats of base and then 2 coats of clear. Maybe it is just the quality of the paint?? I'll probably stick with Nason but was checking out what summit had to offer.
 

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It might be like a "dust" coat. Usually you do that with metallics to even everything out so it wont show a pattern.
 

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What he said ^ Basically you back the gun back a bit and speed up. This ensures the correct metallic lie.
 

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Also called Fogging sometimes.
 

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ahhhh so it has to do with the paint being metallic. Thanks for the answers
 
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