{"id":1179,"date":"2026-07-02T11:01:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T09:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stardustcolors.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1179"},"modified":"2026-07-02T11:07:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T09:07:57","slug":"how-to-achieve-mirror-like-gold-colours-using-neochrome-paint-and-gold-pigments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stardustcolors.co.uk\/blog\/how-to-achieve-mirror-like-gold-colours-using-neochrome-paint-and-gold-pigments\/","title":{"rendered":"How to achieve mirror-like gold colours using NeoChrome paint and gold pigments"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to the new Neochrome paint and the Candy colourants from the Precious Metals range, it is possible to achieve high-quality decorative finishes with a look:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
* Satin nickel<\/td>\n* Bright nickel<\/td>\n*Polished metal<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
* Mirrored chrome<\/td>\n* Bright gold, pale gold, warm gold<\/span><\/td>\n* Copper<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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* Rose gold<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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* Bronze<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

* all the vivid colors<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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For example, a company specialising in the manufacture of metal fittings and decorative components for furniture, which already has a painting\/lacquering facility complete with a spray booth and spray guns, wishes to develop in-house finishing capabilities for its prototypes, commercial samples and small batches, as well as its mass-produced parts, in order to minimise the need to use subcontractors for electroplating.<\/p>\n

Materials that can be painted include, for example, metals such as Zamak or brass, plastics such as PVC or ABS, 3D-printed objects, wood, etc.:
\nStardustColors paint systems offer an effective and relatively easy-to-apply solution.
\nTo achieve this type of result, we offer:
\n\u25ba Primers or adhesion promoters suited to each material.
\n\u25ba The most suitable nickel, chrome and gold effect paints.
\n\u25ba Protective ceramic, gloss, satin and matt topcoats<\/p>\n

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Applicable to spray guns
\nAvailable as a complete kit
\nBoth in small packs for testing purposes and at special rates for industrial production.<\/p>\n

If you wish to reproduce or imitate a metallic finish resembling precious metals such as gold or bronze, or even other polished metals, then it is worth adding a mirror or polished effect. This requires a finish free of pearlescent agents and metallic pigments, with completely invisible pigmentation.<\/p>\n

It is therefore possible to achieve a gold ingot finish, or even a gold mirror finish, by first applying a mirror-finish chrome coating. This finish must be particularly bright and pure. This can be achieved using just two products<\/p>\n

\u25ba chemical silver plating, which produces a silver mirror finish. This is a complex process that we offer here, but which we will not cover in this article
\n\u25ba the new Neochrome paint<\/strong><\/span><\/a>
\nSince its launch in 2025, this new paint has been increasingly used by interior design professionals, thanks to its exceptional qualities and relative ease of application<\/p>\n

The various transparent pigments used to obtain the gold metallic effects<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Neochrome paint produces a very light, highly reflective metallic finish, and it is easy to coat it with a varnish to which a transparent \u2018Candy\u2019-type colourant has been added
\nThe simplest way to achieve a mirror-finish gold effect is to add a yellow colourant, such as Candy Yellow 21 (Oxide Yellow), which is the main colourant alongside Candy Lemon Yellow 20 (pure, light yellow).<\/p>\n

To obtain aged or natural colours<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u25ba Add Magenta 162 pink and a little black 01<\/strong><\/span><\/a>
\nThere are many shades of gold, or even bronze, as well as new, fashionable colours such as rose gold. It is possible to achieve more natural-looking gold shades by mixing Candy colourants into the varnish applied over the Neochrome paint.<\/p>\n