WATER-BASED COATING COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR FORMING COATING FILM

The challenge of the present invention is to provide an aqueous coating composition having good coating workability and good finished appearance. The aqueous coating composition of the present invention is an aqueous coating composition including an aqueous base component (I) and a water-dispersible curing agent (II), wherein the aqueous base component (I) includes an aqueous acrylic resin dispersion (A) and an aqueous polyolefin wax dispersion (B), wherein the water-dispersible curing agent (II) includes a water-dispersible polyisocyanate (C), wherein at least one of the aqueous base component (I) and the water-dispersible curing agent (II) includes an organic solvent (D) having a solubility in water at 20°C of 0.5 to 10 g/100gH2O, wherein the aqueous acrylic resin dispersion (A) has a hydroxyl value in the range of 5 to 200 mgKOH/g, wherein an acid value in the range of 5 to 100 mgKOH/g, and wherein a number-average molecular weight in the range of 1,000 to 100,000, and the aqueous polyolefin wax dispersion (B) has an average particle diameter in the range of 50 to 1,000 nm.