Candies and pearls are very hard for the amateur to do at home. Your real lucky you found a pro with all the equipment and knowledge. Around here you can’t find anyone to paint a bicycle frame. Decals won’t stick unless the paint has no irregularities. You need to wet sand the paint at the decal site absolutely flat with 1500, apply decals or stickers and give several mistings with clear after they dry. Otherwise the decals will lift at the edges. The only person I know who can do all this at home, with spectacular results, is my son. He has a homemade paint booth with an inlet that is filtered with furnace filters and it has downward forced air using a blower. It is also heated, but the heater is turned off before spraying. He uses a low volume low pressure gun. That’s right, lvlp. White pearl over light pink candy here in this picture. This is his booth, poly tarps held with clamps onto conduit poles stuck into pvc pipes permanently placed in the ground. He has some kind of light weight wood square roof frame with holes drilled in them so the pipes fit. The roof is also poly covered with an opening cut for a filter that is held in place with duct tape. There is an opening at the base for the blower fan to remove paint mist. It’s, big, 10 foot by 10 foot by 8 foot high so you can move around the frame without touching anything. You can see the heater in the photo, which brings the tent up to the optimum temperature. He gets the 2 part primer from the local auto parts store and the colors on line from someone that mixes up small batches of custom colors for people painting motorcycle. The cost is not too bad as your not buying car cover quantities. He uses a heat gun to read the frame temp. After he is finished the booth is disassembled and stored. All too much for me to bother with.
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Drying for a few days in the bathroom with the exhaust fan running. Clear was added next.
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