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Want paint that looks exactly like chrome finishing

I need part of a stone sculpture, 3-feet tall, to be "painted" to look exactly like chrome. Not silver, not aluminum.

Any joy for me out there?

Jack Warren
Artist/Sculptor - Dallas, Texas, USA
February 17, 2009

Try Mirrachrome paint-and chromium plating is chromium plating , chromium paint is just paint.Hope it helps and good luck!

Goran Budija
- Cerovski vrh Croatia
February 23, 2009

There is no such thing as a chrome coating that looks like chrome. Your best option is to find a company who can carry out vacuum coating - the size may prove to be the stumbling block... and then lacquer it with a transparent PC material... even then at twenty paces it may not look like chrome. Don't let anyone convince you that a certain PC material works or ask them to pay for refurbishment if it does not. As your requirements are so specific, this will stop all time wasters.

Terry Hickling
Birmingham, United Kingdom
February 23, 2009

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