That's probably true, but it looks like flakes of metal embedded in the paint and that says metallic, not Kandy to me.

A metallic has metal flake in the color coat. The samples I posted are candy OVER A METALLIC BASE COAT. Candy over a metallic IS CANDY.

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.

I think that's what I just said. I think that anybody who built model cars as a kid or real ones as an adult knows the difference. Your examples looked like metallics to me on my crappy monitor, not kandies. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong. Don't take it personally.

I'll agree that the lime color example shown by Fissile looks like a metalflake, and not a candy/kandy. Can't say for sure about the F150.

Here's a reasonable basic example of candy/kandy colors. Minimal, if any metalflake, with an emphasis on the steel/silver basecoat through the transparency of the main color:



-Kurt

My first lightweight was a Puch Bergmeister with a translucent red over copper plating. I was in the 7th grade, around 1960.