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> How I painted my 914, ...custom stripes and a show-car finish
Boojum
post Nov 29 2006, 05:53 PM
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Awesome job, and great color too! If my handiwork comes out looking half as nice as this when it comes time for me to do some of this I'll be greatly pleased.
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post Nov 29 2006, 06:11 PM
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There is German in your ancestry... somewhere.









wow
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post Nov 29 2006, 06:34 PM
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Wow nice work and looks fantastic! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smilie_pokal.gif)


(IMG:style_emoticons/default/popcorn[1].gif) Crap I'm lazy.
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post Nov 29 2006, 06:35 PM
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Wow, thats very impressive (IMG:style_emoticons/default/clap56.gif)

I agree with Boojum; if mine comes out half as nice I'll be very pleased.

If you don't mind, what brands of paint did you use?
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post Nov 29 2006, 06:52 PM
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QUOTE(SGB @ Nov 29 2006, 04:11 PM) *

There is German in your ancestry... somewhere.






wow



Yep, 100% German, mom and dad came to the U.S. back in the 60's. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smilie_flagge6.gif)

The paint is Dupont Chromabase. I way overestimated what I would need. MY compressor was a sears 33 Gal.


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post Nov 29 2006, 08:20 PM
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Thanks, for the compliments, everyone. Yes, at this point the car looked pretty good. But, as this picture shows, the clear coat has far too much ORANGE PEEL.

But never fear, we're only halfway done with our paint job at this point....stay tuned...


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post Nov 29 2006, 08:36 PM
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Looks great!!!
Nice work Thomas!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)
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post Nov 29 2006, 08:44 PM
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I bet these pics don't even do it justice. And orange peel? pshaw... wet sanding is your friend... that's gonna be glass...

Yay...
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post Nov 29 2006, 10:47 PM
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That's gonna be one jaw dropping home paint job. Outstanding work.
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post Nov 29 2006, 11:08 PM
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Looks great! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/aktion035.gif) I'm at the point where I'm just about ready to put on my first coat of primer. Did your Craftsman 33 gallon compressor keep up with the gun? I've been reading all I can on painting and they say that any pressure drop while painting can effect the performance of the gun. Sure looks nice. Wish I was that far along.
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post Nov 29 2006, 11:49 PM
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Great Job (IMG:style_emoticons/default/clap56.gif)

Is that a Devilbiss Plus gun your using?
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post Nov 30 2006, 06:30 AM
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QUOTE(sj914 @ Nov 29 2006, 09:49 PM) *

Great Job (IMG:style_emoticons/default/clap56.gif)

Is that a Devilbiss Plus gun your using?



Yes sir, Devilbiss Plus. The compressor kept up just fine. You can paint several panels without it coming on somtimes.
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post Nov 30 2006, 07:01 AM
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Ok, so at this point I had a freshly painted car with three coats of clear on it. What could be done here is to buff out the car and be done with it, and it would look great. But I decided that I wanted an even better paint job. If you search on the internet you will find that the hot-rodders and custom paint guys have a way for making a deep clear glass-like paint job. Basically, what you do is you sand the entire car down again until the clear is perfectly flat again. Then, you apply MORE CLEAR!

The more clear you put on the car, the less-flat the surface gets. That's because each coat of clear introduces a bit of orange peel each time. So what you have to do is cut the clear down - block sand it with 600 grit paper and prepare to reshoot more clear on to the car. The common objections to this technique is that you will be able to see the scratches left by the 600 grit paper through the clear. This is not true, and there is a guy on the Autobody forum that even goes as far as 320 grit. But 600 is enough to provide a pretty good mechanical bond between your clear layers.

So off I went sanding again....


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post Nov 30 2006, 07:04 AM
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You can really see the orange peel and dust nibs when you start sanding. With three coats of clear, you can sand and sand without much fear of sanding through to the base. Except around edges, where one should be very carefull.


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post Nov 30 2006, 07:07 AM
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Sanding the car down again also allowed me to eliminate the ridge that develops when you apply stripes. This door had to be agressivly sanded to get the ridge line eliminated.


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post Nov 30 2006, 07:11 AM
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So this is how everything looked when cut down with 600. FLAT!


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post Nov 30 2006, 07:12 AM
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More pics later...
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post Nov 30 2006, 07:21 AM
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Wow, sand and re-clear seems extreme, I have always had great luck wet sanding the clear from 1000 thru 2500 grit and then buffing it out. Interesting, I might give that a try once. I can see that it might add depth, but I don't see that it will make it flatter, if the OP and nibs are gone then it would be flat...hmmmm I have to think about that.
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post Nov 30 2006, 08:59 AM
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QUOTE(1bad914 @ Nov 30 2006, 05:21 AM) *

Wow, sand and re-clear seems extreme, I have always had great luck wet sanding the clear from 1000 thru 2500 grit and then buffing it out. Interesting, I might give that a try once. I can see that it might add depth, but I don't see that it will make it flatter, if the OP and nibs are gone then it would be flat...hmmmm I have to think about that.



If your interested, check out these two links to see a similar procedure done on a cool 356 Speedster...

356 - Step By Step


356 - Finished Car -- Sweet
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post Nov 30 2006, 10:22 AM
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wow, good write up...i can't believe he was so calm about the guy hitting him, after all that work, if someone hit me only 2 months after i finished i would have gone crazy!
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