Another DIY paint question

[GSpreeman]

I would like to finish a part at a time like a door, hood, etc. and paint them as I go instead of making one big mess all at once. I think I'll be using a single stage. Probably a Pascha red. Why should or shouldn't I do this as opposed to shooting down the entire call in the same session? What is the likelyhood that I would see color differences between parts shot down at different times?

[RoninLB]

I've done it only on solids.. metalics would be real tricky imo.

[GSpreeman]

Yeah, this is a solid. Not metal flake. I'm thinking there shouldn't be too much variation shoot to shoot.

[RoninLB]

Originally posted by GSpreeman
I'm thinking there shouldn't be too much variation shoot to shoot.

yeah somewhat.. it's easy to vary the darkness of a red. A black or dark blue would be less of a constraint imo. I guess you'd have to be consistant in the reducer, psi, gun distance.. maybe even humidity. Sometimes the different shoots won't show up for a yr or 3. I'd probably do a complete base coat section by section and get it real perfect.. then a very very reduced whole shoot to blend it together. I'm not a pro.

[Fishcop]

You probably won't see a colour difference if you store your paint correctly and mix it thoroughly each time you use it. I still don't like painting "bit by bit" as there is a lot of clean up doing it this way... you use much more thinners. Also depending on the day there can be differences in the "texture" of the paint, some days you get it perfect, other days it orange peels a little or blushes if it's cold. I like to prime everything as a I go along and then carefully store it 'till painting day. Just my 2 cents.

[ssetek]

one thing i would do is mix all the color together like for the whole car youll need xx amount of qts of paint mix all of them together in 0ne pail then seal it and use what you need at a time so there is no color variation even though its a stock color they always vari a little so when you panel paint the car have all the paint come from one source then i like to mix a little more than i need so then i have some extra for any repairs in the future if need whith the same exact color as before.

hope this helps
good luck

[Zeke]

What they said. Just keep notes and try to have the weather at least similar.

I am going to paint the doors hoods and fenders off the car two by two. The reason I am doing this is to have seamless paint into the door jambs and around the various sides and bottom of the doors. I will paint the tops and undersides of the hoods separately. I could actually leave the fenders on to do this, but that involves a lot more masking.

I believe you could do metallic this way if you are willing to assemble the body and do one more double wet coat over the entire car for uniformity. I might do that too and have someone in a booth shoot the last bit. The overspray in the jambs should polish out

[RoninLB]

Originally posted by Zeke


I believe you could do metallic this way if you are willing to assemble the body and do one more double wet coat over the entire car for uniformity.

The overspray in the jambs should polish out

I've had luck doing a relative dry coat. A wet coat dims the metalics and makes a blend difficult with my routine. A highly thinned wet thin initial coat that's shoot fast, and then immediately turn the paint area into a dust cloud of metalics by shooting at high psi and having the gun far from the body. It blends great and the metalics wind up on the surface.. It glows when I'm finished with that routine.. doing these non-pro shoots is kinda personalized.


any highly thinned overspray is easy to deal with.