Painting strips

zincyellow03

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Painting stripes

Each day I come up with new things to do to my stang. For today I'm thinking of paint(myself and my dad) some stripes on my stang but what would I have to do to do that? I'm guessing I would have to sand the area that would need the work, right? My dad mentioned using degreaser to take it off? How would adding a clear coat work? I would guess that the whole car would have to be sanded to get the clear coat off and the clear coat the whole car? Any ideas?

 

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Degrease, tape off, scuff, shoot, wetsand any ridge, scuff all, clear.

 

zincyellow03

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By clear, you mean that I would just have to clearcoat the area that I painted?

 

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Myself, I would at least do the panel. You may be good at feathering clear and buffing it out.

 

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PuterAmI said:

Myself, I would at least do the panel. You may be good at feathering clear and buffing it out.

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Sorry, I've never done anything like this so what do you mean?

 

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I meant to say blending instead of feathering, but blending is when you pull the area back a little ways on the panel that you are spraying. You want to draw it back after each succesive coat so that there is not a definitive line where the new paint and old paint meet.

With clear, you thin it out a bit more with each coat. Then pull the edge back a bit. Once it dries, then sand and buff and it should blend in without being able to tell where you stoppd and where you started.

For a better explanation, you may want to do as I did and buy a book. The one I got from Amazon is titled "How to Paint Your Car".