Water-based coating composition and method of forming multilayered coating film

Abstract

An object of the present invention is to provide an aqueous coating composition with excellent finished appearance and removability in bell cleaning, and a method for forming a multilayer coating film having excellent smoothness by a 3-coat-1-bake method including successively applying an aqueous first colored coating composition, an aqueous second colored coating composition, and a clear coating composition to a substrate, and heat-curing the resulting three layers of the multilayer coating film all at once. The present invention provides an aqueous coating composition containing an acrylic resin (A), a curing agent (B), and a urethane resin emulsion (C) with a weight average molecular weight of 2,000 to 50,000, the urethane resin emulsion (C) being prepared using constituent components containing a polyisocyanate component and a polyol component as starting materials, wherein the polyisocyanate component contains an alicyclic diisocyanate, and the polyol component contains a polycarbonate diol in an amount of 50 mass %, based on the total amount of the polyol component.

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