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This seems eminently sensible, thanks so much for the info @hoops : )
I've never actually seen the spectracoat in real life (only in photos) so it's difficult to imagine how / if it'll work. Billy suggested candy paint (which is easier to imagine working) but I'm not sure if it's possible to get that kind of baby pink / softer yellow in candy paint?
Another alternative might be to use some kind of masked / graphic transition to avoid having a sprayed fade. Matthew recently did a gravel bike for himself that shows what I mean. The drawback to this is expense - Saffron more or less charge by the hour for graphic design and paint so the further I can get on my own, the better:
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Two stage paints (spectracoat, chromacoat, candy etc) can do weird unexpected things when you fade them into other solid colours
Cycliste wanted a dark blue/purple chromacoat over a silver base. I did a test, and it looked awful. So I sprayed it over a black base, with silver lettering, and it looks awesome. Not that she's ever actually ridden the bike, of course.
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Might be worth asking if Billy can do you a quick sample tube with the spectracoat fading into yellow. I don’t think it will work very well, as spectracoat effect looks totally different depending what colour it is painted on top of (usually black or silver for best results)…. So it may look a little weird as it fades out over the yellow.
Again, paint is totally subjective, so my taste might not be your taste, but I don’t think it will come out looking like your mock up due to the way the paint works, so asking for a quick sample of what the fade will actually come out like IRL might be worth while to ensure the end result will be as expected.
Two stage paints (spectracoat, chromacoat, candy etc) can do weird unexpected things when you fade them into other solid colours, so doing a trial run on a sample tube is always worthwhile in my experience. These types of effect paint normally work best as a fade when faded into whatever solid base colour has been used as the undercoat for the effect paint.