Vlad's rides thread

[vlad01]

new bit off the VN vs the old bit on the VP

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previous repairer professional panel beating ftw!

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this area cleaned up, though some cut and paste is needed, "panel beaten" beyond repair and rust hole from welding and not paining after

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new piece test fit.

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all inside the boot being properly cleaned up, bare metal stripped in a lot of areas to smooth the metal and remove patches of surface rust.

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finally got some of these off without breaking anything.

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[Holden202T]

i get worn out just seeing how much extreme detail your going to with this respray hahaha

[vlad01]

yeah haha. i wont be spraying it though. decided I'll get a local panel beater/spray painter to do it. Seen him a few times. Just a really old guy by him self doing repairs and painting. Some of his good work is real nice! some of the quicky insurance jobs are average but all his private jobs are awesome.

I figure I do the best possible body repair and prep work and leave the paint to the pro. Getting him to come out and have a look at the car Saturday week to give me an idea on the job and cost. Early next year is the estimated time frame when she be going in for the coat, that should give me heaps of time to finish.

[Dylan]

Going 2 pack?

[vlad01]

Going 2 pack?

yep, the painter only uses 2 pak. his paint jobs like mint without any cut and polishing. And metallic? perfect!

i tried and tried but couldn't get the metallic to lay down right, always stripy or splotchy in angled light. But I used acrylic single pak paint which isn't great for metallic. How ever I can always get great results in a spray pack


also is plastic bumpers look brand new once painted so that's ideal. A lot of restores don't do plastic bumpers.

[Holden202T]

The trick to metallic is even layers and constant swirling of the pot to keep it mixed !!

[vlad01]

its much harder with acrylic though, its gravity sensitive and the equipment for acrylic doesn't atomize as good either as its high volume and the paint isn't as well suited to be finely atomized otherwise it goes on too dry. I know a few pro painters (their actual job) of another forum that also go for 2 pak over acrylic for metallic for the same sort of reasons.

The only time I got good results with the lay down when I was laying almost completely dry coats. Guess thats why spray packs work well as they don't have air mixed with the paint mist and lay down wet while being atomized well. I have some u-pol high quality spray packs that spray like fog and always come up real nice.

[delcowizzid]

i allways crack up when people talk about flip controllers etc for making the flakes stand up etc ive never used such things on any metellic paintjobs LOL

[Holden202T]

This is my effort metallic acrylic straight from the gun with clear coat over the top and no polishing

[vlad01]

yeah ours looked like that in day and ambient light. in directional like was another story lol. looked like shit

the flakes landed different depending what angled in the fan they were at when the hit the surface. So the flake angle was in a gradient like pattern from middle of the fan out. But it depended on the light.