Your right for the most part. You shot a black base coat like your doing dupont chrome Illusion, but you clear coat it for the gloss, then you lay a very dry powder coat of the chrome which I guess is a very fine aluminium like talc then clear coat it again for UV protection, but I'd still like to see it done and the end result other then a computer graphic. and at 429.00 a quart for the kit, I just want a warm fuzzy before I start