Thread: Paint

Originally Posted by DoubleChevron

No ... you'll still see plenty of stuff not done right.... This is really the starting point for a good paint job..... "Near enough" says me. I just know anything obvious like I have photographed .... annoys the crap out of you everytime you look at the car in the future if you don't fix it ( if you find it). No-one else will see it, but your eyes will always go straight to it!

seeya,
Shane L

big yes, been there and done it. My dad said to me when I started painting cars
if you see it or feel it, fix it because there is plenty you will miss.
cheers
blaze

You have a lot more patience than me, I have **** all of it. if I want to paint a car it's a rough as guts job usually in matt black or in hammer-tone type paint cheap and simple

If it all goes to **** and it's not too your liking, you can always say it looks good from the road

Trav

Originally Posted by dungarover

You have a lot more patience than me, I have **** all of it. if I want to paint a car it's a rough as guts job usually in matt black or in hammer-tone type paint cheap and simple

If it all goes to **** and it's not too your liking, you can always say it looks good from the road

Trav

That's not the half of it .... gee the panels I've painted are bloody bright .... If they were any bloody brighter they would glow in the dark. I sure picked as, um ... "different" colour

Oh well, it could be a hideous salmon pink like the car parked behind it.

seeya,
Shane L.

Well I have been "learning" at lot again ................ if only the bloody lessons would take, and I'd stop making the same damn mistake over and over and over ......................... and .................... well you get the idea

I was tinkering in the shed last night at about 10:30 pm .... it must have still been 20degrees outside ... dead still... and there wasn't any bugs hanging around the lights in the shed. Being really smart I figured this would be a great time to throw some paint at that roof



That blower fan ... Yeah, the filter doesn't work. It cut the airflow by about 80% taping that to it .... SO no air filtration ... It'll be fine right ?








I practiced walking up and down the planks beside the car for five minutes pretending I was painting. I found if I chucked hte air lines over my shoulder, I could reach to the middle without rubbing against the side of the roof.

Of course, I tested the gun, it sprayed for 5 seconds and spluttered to a stop ................. I had the tip and needle and seat soaking in reducer and had flushed reducer through the gun after last using it ... But it appears paint still dries to a fine "slime" inside the head of the gun and can block it up when re-assembled. You must need to pull the things to bits and soak the entire head of the gun in reducer to flush all activated paint out ....

Anyway, try again ........... concentrating my hardest on moving as slowly as possible so I hose the paint on like that other panels, and don't end up with dry lines through it (anything to avoid having to colour sand such a large panel).

Can you see them .... I didn't spot them until after I put the first coat on......










RUN >>>> Bloody incredible ... spectacular .... ENORMOUS runs .... I can't see the paint going on for some reason, even with all those lights.... So didn't see these until I came back to do the second coat. The photos don't show them very well..... But WOW .... If your going to do something. You might as well do it properly

Yeah, the paint must be a LOT thinner when its 20degrees rather than 10degrees in outside .... so it sprays heavier. I did put another couple of coats on as the paint was already mixed.... but wow .... RUNS!


The fix for this was very obvious. I turned the compressors off ... switched the lights off and went inside and raided the beer in fridge

seeya,
Shane L.

Anyway, i figured I'd need to block it back and spray one level coat without runs on today. Before i went outside I hit youtube with "sanding paint runs from single stage paint" .... The seppo's call this paint "single stage".... and this popped up ....




Hmmm...... Maybe I could try that and not have to repaint the roof.








Wow runs even on the masking paper!



Well it highlights all the damn runs I put in it eitherway. There is quite a bit of trash in the roof now I have had a look in daylight, so it needs to be colour sanded either way (I was trying to avoid doing this with such a big panel!




Oh, this would be why I couldn't see the paint running .... Its like looking through glasses that have vasoline smeered over the lenses. I need to either clean or replace the plastic on the mask.

So... That youtube video ....




Yeah no bugs ... Smart right ??





I'll be damned ... that youtube clip ... It bloody works!



except this one spot ... I couldn't understand how I cut through like that .......



until I spotted this ... see the rolled up bits of paint. the run was so deep, it wasn't cured at the bottom and I "dragged" the paint off in little balls with the paper.

This is why I wanted to use a solid colour though ... Easy repairs if it gets damaged ( it is a 4wd after all ). So I guess this is a good opportunity to see if I can readily touch the paint up. How do I mix up a tiny amount of paint and get the measurements right though ?? What I needed was the equivalent of a really small soup ladle................. So I whipped inside and grabbed one of those childrens medicine cups ( ssshhhh.... boss women doesn't need to know ).



We will see how it blends in when I hit the roof with some cutters.