This black base coat is an essential step to achieve the depth and gloss of any Alclad metallic finish. It's goes down smoothly and dries to a high gloss. A couple coats will give the best coverage.

This is a wonderful black, but do not apply it over the microfiller primer. Even after buffing the primer, you need the black to be perfect or the metal color that goes over it will show any imperfection.

If you use alclad then you know it can give you the best metal finish. But to obtain it you need a smooth black shiny coat beneath it. I already tried several brands of gloss black paint. They give you a nice shiny coat. But the final result is somewhat disaponting. The metal finish over it is not that good. Then you use this one, and the metal finish gets that extra leg.... This black coat is superb. 2 or 3 light passes , with sometime to let it dry between aplications and you get that shiny gloss all around. if you really want that metal to shine, this is the base coat touse