Starting on Paint

[spade33]

Hey guys its been a LONG time since ive posted on here and i figured i would start with some progress. I finally started doing the paint on my car and wanted to share a little bit. Some of these pics are before clearcoat and not all my base coats are on, and then the others are after clear and before color sanding and buffing which im doing in the morning and ill post some more pics. Well here you go guys, the color looks alot more orange in these than it is in real life since its a cellphone pic. Ill try to get a real camera in the morning to take pics.

If you wounder why i did the doors and jams and underside its because i wanted to make sure everything worked out well and if it didnt i did not spray the whole car. I had a little bit of contamination when i sprayed it but sanded it out and it turned out pretty nice, i think. The car has been my daily driver for about a year since i primed it, so i guess the contamination is expected. Does anybody know if i can do anything to get rid of that besides grese and wax remover. Well hope you all enjoy

 

[tx65coupe]

Looks pretty dang good to me.

 

[Realmongo]

Nice Gloss!

 

[kttrucks]

most of the contamination in a paintjob comes from the painter.... be careful what you wear... no cotton! cover your hair, wear the proper safety gear because it serves two masters; it keeps you safe as well as protecting your paintjob from contamination that fall off of your clothing, etc. The other thing is to really pay attention to your painting area. clean it, blow it out, cover everything up with (new) plastic and create airflow that will keep constant movement of air over your project. filter your inlet air (wet the area down in front of your door if that's where the air comes in) as well s your exhaust air. do everything you can to mimic a professional booth from the air flow path to the filtration and positive pressure design. It's not that hard to do and not expensive. It looks like you've got most of this handled.... paint is sticky! for a long time after it's shot as well, but the air can be controlled, even without a pro-booth.

KT.

 

[zookeeper]

Extremely good advice (as always!) I painted my car in my garage at home and by doing exactly as Kevin suggests I wound up with a very nice paint job with virtually no trash at all. As Kevin says, most of the dirt in paint comes from you, buy a paint suit (I use those Tyvek disposables), wet the floor and move slowly. I've also found that remasking the car is a huge help, since dirt and debris hides in the folds of paper and since you normally prime, then block, then color it's typically several days to several weeks later, plus you have sanding crud everywhere so even if it takes afw hours, re-mask everything with fresh paper and tape to prevent all the little "heart attacks" waiting to be blown onto your new paint job.

 

[spade33]

Thanks alot for the advice. I got the one door wet sanded and buffed out and it looks really good just some swril marks I need to get out, but virtually no orange peel and it's straight. Although while driving it (it's my only car) someone put a chip in my paint already :/ oh well it can be fixed. And as for the advice thanks a ton. I will have to get a tyvek suit when I spray the rest of the car. Work on it is a little slow with my academy and such but I'm making progress.