Painting trunk lids off the car, What's your process? Options

[bbrock]

I'd like to say this will be my last painting question, but I don't want to lie. I'm planning the logistics of painting all the pieces not attached to the car (trunk lids, engine lide, headlight covers). It shouldn't be hard except I'm spraying 2-stage metallic which complicates things a little. Some considerations:

1. Metallic should be sprayed with panels oriented the same as they will be on the car to avoid funky discontinuity in how the flakes lay where panels meet (e.g. trunk to fender).

2. PPG DBC base coat has to be clearcoated within 24 hours.

3. PPG Concept clear coat requires minimum 16 hours air dry time.

I can think of a couple ways to tackle this:

1. Lay panels flat and upside down on racks. Spray base and clear on the underside, then give them a day or so to air dry. Then flip them over and and repeat to paint the top sides. That means the whole car will be painted in stages over 2-3 days.

2. Same as above but spray base coat on bottoms. Let dry an hour or two. Flip over and spray base on the tops. Let dry. Then hang them so I can clear coat both sides at once. Complete car sprayed in 1-2 days but more handling parts.

Which would be less likely to bite me in the ass? Or maybe something I haven't thought of. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)

[bbrock]

Okay, I'm just about finished blocking my second round of K36 with 220. Just a couple last spots that need addressed which I should finish tomorrow. I think I'm going to go with a full coat of DPLF epoxy wet sanded to 600 over the K36 as my final seal coat. Other than the film thickness and need to sand before applying base coat, is there any functional difference between a wet sanded full coat of DP epoxy vs reduced DP as a sealer? I sure can't think of why there would be any difference.

I think I'm going to follow Stephen's advice and mount the panels on the car before spraying. I should be able to spray the bottoms of the lids, inside doors, jambs, and seal gutters one day, then mount everything up to spray the rest another day. I re-watched a bunch of Youtube vids of spraying silver metallic again last night and I think spraying the panels off the car just introduces one more variable for me to screw up.

Thanks for all the advice (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)