Metallic paint
Metallic paint is automotive paint that contains tiny flat aluminium flakes suspended in the base coat, giving the colour its characteristic sparkle and depth.
What it means
Metallic paint adds aluminium flake to the base coat. As light hits the panel, some bounces off the pigment and some bounces off the angled metal flakes underneath, which is what produces the shimmer and the way the colour shifts subtly as you walk around the car. Metallic finishes are more visually interesting than solid colours but harder to repair invisibly. The flake orientation matters: spray a panel at a slightly different angle and the new flakes line up differently, making the repair visible as a slight colour shift even when the actual pigment is matched perfectly. This is why every metallic-paint repair requires careful blending into adjacent panels and digital colour matching against the actual current colour of the car, not just the manufacturer's paint code.
Why it matters in Singapore
Most premium European cars sold in Singapore are ordered in metallic finishes. That makes metallic-paint repair the everyday workload of any bodyshop here. A workshop that does not have the equipment for digital colour matching, or that skips the blending step, ships repairs that read as obvious touch-ups on metallic paint even when they would have looked fine on a solid colour.
How Revol Carz handles this
Revol Carz sprays metallic finishes in our Italian Saima dust-free booth using Spies Hecker paint, mixed against a digital scan of the existing car. Blending into adjacent panels is included on every metallic repair as standard, never charged as an extra.