The custom car community is always searching for the next boundary-pushing paint technology to set their custom rides apart. But Musou Black presents customizers with a unique challenge. Marketed as the "blackest black" coating ever developed, this artistic paint absorbs over 99% of visible light, creating the illusion of a portal to endlessly deep void space. Daring painters have tossed handfuls of glitter, metal flake, or candy coatings over this ultra-matte surface, hoping to decorate the darkness. Yet most coatings simply slide off Musou Black‘s frictionless finish. That is until the genesis of HyperShift pearls.
HyperShift sprinkled over Musou Black combines these innovative paint technologies to generate an incredible "galaxy" effect. The Musou Black offers an infinitely deep foundation, while the shifting spectra of HyperShift glitters like stars across its expanse. This completes a sci-fi aesthetic never before seen in automotive circles.
Musou Black‘s Technology Makes It Surreal and Fragile
So what makes Musou Black unlike any other black paint? The secret lies in its unique carbon nanotube construction devised by Japanese scientist Masubichi Saito. Carbon nanotubes are microscopic cylindrical structures made of rolled up graphene. Musou Black contains randomly oriented carbon nanotubes suspended in acrylic paint. Individual nanotubes measure around 10,000 times thinner than human hair. But collectively, they form a complex nanoscopic topography.
Light striking this surface essentially becomes trapped in an endless maze of carbon nanotubes. The nanotubes obstruct, capture, and deflect light rays, preventing them from reflecting back to our eyes. Only the smallest fraction scatters back, creating Musou Black‘s reality-distorting 99.4% absorption rate. These phenomena produce its breath-taking visual effect on custom cars. Panels painted in Musou Black seem to delete parts of the vehicle into a flat vortex of darkness. The effect screws with depth perception and absorbs surrounding colors and shapes.
Yet as astounding as Musou Black appears visually, the same properties leave it highly impractical outside of fine art applications. The delicate carbon nanotube structures become easily damaged by friction, pressure, or abrasion. Running a brush across Musou Black‘s surface could shear off the nanotubes, stripping away its light-absorbing texture. The coating also degrades when exposed to heat, moisture, direct sunlight, and other environmental factors. Musou Black requires enclosed display conditions like a paintings in gallery.These sensitivities restrict Musou Black to art installations, photography backdrops, and conceptual one-off automotive projects.
Vantablack Comparisons Show Musou Black‘s Auto Potential
Musou Black is often compared to Vantablack, an ultra-black often in scientific instruments and aerospace applications. This coating can absorb 99.965% of impinging light by trapping it between microscopic vertical carbon nanotubes grown on surface.
Vantablack exhibitsmarginally better light-absorption than Musou Black, but remains too delicate and expensive for vehicles. Plus, the vertically aligned structure causes liquids to uncontrollably bead on Vantablack rather than forming an even coat. So attempts to mix and spray Vantablack as an automotive paint would fail catastrophically.
Musou Black‘s more random nanotube formation allows it to be suspending in paint formulas and sprayed onto cars with careful technique adjustments. This critical difference let Musou Black become bottled into artist paint jars and sold worldwide. Enthusiasts can order Musou Black paint from retailers and fabricators like Anish Kapoor studios and Culture Hustle. This shocking black paint debuted across art and culture circles before capturing imaginations in automotive communities.
HyperShift Sparks Dimensional Glitter
But what about the HyperShift pearls that glitter like stars against Musou Black‘s empty expanse? HyperShift additive is the creation of DipYourCar, a company focused on innovating pearl, candy and other effect coatings for the automotive industry.
The HyperShift formulation combines microscopic metallic flakes and iridescent mica particles suspended in a liquid medium. Each fleck boasts a flat, scale-like structure that refracts and reflects light beams in complex ways. By tweaking thickness and layering materials, DipYourCar engineers tuned HyperShift‘s flakes to shift dramatically through the color spectrum based on minute changes in viewing angle.
Flecks shift from purple to teal to emerald green in a dazzling display. Other color-shift additives might use holographic technologies or diffraction gratings to separate white light. But HyperShift‘s technology focuses on layering and contours relates more closely to the rainbow iridescence seen nature. This helps the HyperShift effect beautifully compliment Musou Black‘s cosmic inspiration.
Mixing HyperShift Solution for Spraying over Musou Black
After experimenting with many formulations, DipYourCar technicians found that spraying a concentrated version HyperShift dissolved in solvent over cured Musou Black coating provided the most brilliant sparkling galaxy finish.
The process requires carefully measuring out an ounce or two of HyperShift concentrate and mixing this into a quart of solvent. DipYourCar recommends a flexible product like Spies Hecker 7010 paint thinner for suspension chemistry. More or less thinner changes consistency and coverage characteristics when sprayed.
The HyperShift concentrate contains mica particles and metallic flecks that could settle out of suspension over time. So the solution requires occasional stirring or agitation keep these elements dispersed during spraying sessions. Once mixed though, the thinner helps the flakes resist clumping or crashing out of the liquid.
With HyperShift solution prepared, painters spray light passes across cured Musou Black surfaces using detail spray guns. Level of experience and skill influence the outcome, as applying too much HyperShift risks clouding or overwhelming the dark dimensional void of exposed Musou Black. Controlling flow rates and spray nozzle angles while moving across complex geometries of custom car bodies challenges even seasoned professionals.
But when executed perfectly, the HyperShift coats bodies in what looks like millions of dancing, color-shifting miniature scales. Like a dragon shifting in sunlight or the matter of a distant nebulaFiltered through Musou Black‘s empty canvas, the HyperShift flakes transmit otherworldly imagery.
Texture Helps Adhere Pearls to Fragile Musou Black
Notably, Musou Black‘s delicate microscopic texture seems to physically catch and grip the applied HyperShift pearls across its contours. Rather than sliding off the frictionless coat, the metallic flakes adhere to and decorate Musou Black‘s ridged carbon nanotube landscape.
This helps explain why no other coating achieved quite the same scintillating galaxy effect over Musou Black finish before HyperShift. The particles harmonize with the nanoscopic topography in ways unattainable by plain paint glitter or metal flake additives. Form and chemistry combine to help HyperShift glitter implant within Musou Black for sustained, environmentally robust sparkle.
Yet even with this anchoring, Musou Black itself remains vulnerable to all the past hazards that limit its applications beyond display pieces. So the fused HyperShift/Musou Black coating dazzles only temporarily before environment factors begin degrading the delicate nanotube foundations.
Transportation to Other Galaxies
Photos show that when illuminated and shot from various angles, the HyperShift-infused Musou Black finish transports viewers lightyears away to infinitely expanding realms dotted with colorful stars, supernovas, and glowing clouds of interstellar gas. The marriage of technologies could help conceptualize 328ith transports and portals to fantasy dimensions or outer space voyages.
In the harsh light of reality though, the fragile Musou Black underbase means such interstellar concept cars must remain confined to strict showroom conditions.iese limitations hardly diminish creative passion driving these visionary enhancements from performance painters.
We can theorize that improved clear-coats or sealants may someday preserve and protect applied Musou Black for durability spans compatible with driving conditions. Partnerships between advanced materials companies could also yield next-generation nanotextured blacks with environmentally robust light capture traits.
Until then, modders continually push boundaries with combining Musou Black art paint with HyperShift pearls or other effect pigments across custom vehicles. Photos and videos of these stunning builds enchant gearhead circles online even if the finishes meet impractical fates after several weeks of display.
For now, we can delight in the boundless inspiration these innovators provide by fusing technologies in wholly unforeseen ways. And we might gaze up at the night sky to search out fantastical colored stars and galaxies that could almost resemble these dazzling, magic automotive paintjobs glimmering across the dimensional void of ultra-black.