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Paint and Body I Need To Paint This One

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Customer car.........I can’t stop going over looking at it.......
 
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She's in good hands.
 

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We got the 1/4 panel in. Getting close.
 
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Looks like my shop Dave
 

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Very nice. It’s heartening to see a shop doing it right rather than just cutting it up and welding a patch like they did on my ‘95 ten years ago.
 

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Anyone interested in seeing what I do painting this one? I have it in the booth, masked, wax and greased removed and am getting ready to paint it.
 
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If nothing else, here it is shiny red now. Fresh red is about as pretty as any color can be.
 
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I’m still hoping one day you set up a GoPro (or that fancy iPhone X) and do a painting video
As always Dave-your work looks great
 

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Very nice. It’s heartening to see a shop doing it right rather than just cutting it up and welding a patch like they did on my ‘95 ten years ago.
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That doesn’t happen in a reputable shop man. A lot of the shops, mine included, are direct repair shop for insurance companies and have to warranty their repairs and repair them by the manufacturers guidelines, Especially when your replacing structural parts. There’s only one way to do it, the right way.
 
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Davedacarpainter said:
If nothing else, here it is shiny red now. Fresh red is about as pretty as any color can be.
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You didn’t have to blend that door Dave? On a red?
 

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You didn’t have to blend that door Dave? On a red?
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I’m doing that this morning when I get to work.

It takes too long to mask up to do at the same time if I want to spray the jambs of the quarter at the same time as the outer quarter.

If it were a pearl or metallic, I would have done the jambs separately and shot the just the outsides of the two panels at the same time to be sure the flake was evenly oriented between the two panels.

Besides that, the color tinted easily to literally a butt match.

The door is a repair panel though regardless of that. Tiny damage along the edge.
 

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I like it.
 
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I’m doing that this morning when I get to work.

It takes too long to mask up to do at the same time if I want to spray the jambs of the quarter at the same time as the outer quarter.

If it were a pearl or metallic, I would have done the jambs separately and shot the just the outsides of the two panels at the same time to be sure the flake was evenly oriented between the two panels.

Besides that, the color tinted easily to literally a butt match.

The door is a repair panel though regardless of that. Tiny damage along the edge.
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Ahh, gotcha
 
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