Originally Posted by
Dirtdrop
A translucent color coat over a metallic basecoat is Kandy. Your supplier may call it candy, but the rest of the industry calls it Kandy.
I'm not going to quibble about how to spell it. The point is that a translucent color coat over a metallic base coat it not a metallic, it's candy/kandy. A metallic has metal flake in the color coat. A candy/kandy over a metallic produces a subtler effect than a metallic. Metallics are sprayed directly over primer. Candy/kandy must be applied over some type of reflective base coat.