Spray on new wheels?

 

man, that color looks so good it even makes the grass look greener.

Well done.

 

I like the color choice. Correction, I love it! I think it was a good "family" for a color-change from the bronze. (In other words, I think future chips, scratches won't stand out).

You do have "courage". I can't imagine where you attempted to paint the car -- getting good paint, dust, and environmental controls. If you did it in your garage, you must have really pssd the wife....

As for your observation that a showcar job requires a professional painter, I'm sure that's true. From 20ft, the pic makes it look like you did an outstanding job. Can't wait to see a pic up close. That'll really show the quality of your work. (But quality isn't everything. I bet you love the price!)

gp

 

Hombre, thats funny..........

 

Nice job, you got bigger brass b*lls than me to take that on...
congrads
vinnie

 

I too just finished myself painting and installing the ground effects on my 94'. What a job. I love the color you picked I almost went there but at the last minute I saw this Admiral Blue color and fell for it. Yours looks great, watch out for all of the corners and lower body pannels when wet sanding and buffing, they can be a bitc#.

 

Nice work
That project is on my list, just way, way , way down the list

 

If you resize(smaller) your pics, it would make it easier to read the text.
When the pics are bigger than the screen, you have to scroll back and forth to read it.
There are free pic resizers on the net. Just search for it.
Good Luck.

 

Very nice job. The talent of some people never fails to amaze me.

 

Just a quick tidbit for all you wannabe self painters. Its not really that hard. I attended Auto Body Vocational School back in High School and really the hardest part is the prep work. Some tips i would give is if your doing a metallic color is to "FOG" the paint. Basically after you have it all painted with the color stage, you pull the gun back further away and spray "crazily" all over to evenly spread the metallic, otherwise you will have the dreaded lines like im sure we have all seen. FOGGING is the key, research it. As for ventilation, i have painted about 10-15 cars in my garages over the years and the key is filtered fresh air coming in and filtered paint saturated air going out. The best setup is to have a garage with two windows and two fans. One sucking out out with a house FILTER taped to it and one blowing air in with a house FILTER taped on it as well. If this is not done the paint hovering in the air will settle down on your nice smooth paint and make it grainy. One last tip that i think is helpful is the last coat of the clearcoat is best applied with allittle more reducer added in to thin it out more. It makes the dry time raise alittle to, but the main reason to do this is that it will lay really smooth to combat the orange peel. Hope these tips help some.

 

 

Interesting points. I haven't ever added reducer to my clearcoat, usually just the 1/3 topcoat hardener. But it does sound like a great idea. Every time I've clearcoated to the point where the clearcoat is smooth I end up with runs. How much reducer do you use?

 

Thank you. I'll be here all week.



...aww carp, it's Friday. Looks like you'll have to get your humor from CFOT.

 

Two other things I did was buy a big box of furnace filters from my local ACE hardware. I taped them together and then to the open over-head garage door.

This prevents dust from blowing in and landing onto the wet material but also allowed ventilation by the fans.

I once painted my Vette during the winter and used a small, electric heater - ACE again - to stablize the temp in the garage. Of course, I did this in Texas, so the temps were never really that low.

Jake

 

Although there are many different ways to shoot a car at home, all with equal success, I simply followed DuPont's recommendations to the letter.

I didn't feel comfortable getting creative.

Jake