Technical The Painting at home in the driveway or garage thread

Thanks for noticing. They are peaked form the factory but a lot of body guys primer and block the peak away. I taped the peak on one side, block sanded up to the tape, removed it and taped the other side of the peak and repeated the process. Then give the peak a little knock down so it isn't too sharp. I do the same on 69 Camaros to keep those fender lines crisp and not rounded.

 

I used that same trick on mid-year vettes as well since it is even easier to take the peak off on fiberglass. Nice crisp lines make such a difference.

 

Pics from the way back machine

 

Great point! I have painted vettes and I seen a lot of them at shows where the body guys have essentially ruined the cars by sanding through the profiles on those C3 fenders.

 

I imagine usually in the name of expediency.

 

Is this the truck you plan to enter in the GNRS? Hope so, want to see it in person. Bob

 

It'll be there as long as nothing unforeseen happens.

 

As I was looking at all the paint work that was done in this thread, I could see all these flaws and I wondered to myself if anyone else noticed. Then I realized that I needed to clean my monitor screen.

 

Epoxy primer in a no-longer-used-for-camping 12'x14' picnic canopy.

 

My In-laws had a temporary shelter over their RV one winter until the wind tore it down. There really wasn't that much damaged but it scared them. I have the remains to use as a paint booth when the time comes.

 

Both of these (heck, ALL my cars) painted in the shop.

 

Couple of bugs and dust but it's single stage and will buff out.

 

I sure do like that color!

Ben

 

Well, they don't always work out. I did this one last year. Mixed a bunch of old lacquer together (brown), taped off the scallops, then painted the really cheap eBay "Hot Rod" satin black enamel over it. Should have worked, but the black was coming off in sheets. Took most of it off with a razor blade. Take 2. Found some nice-looking Dark Saddle acrylic enamel on the bottom shelf in my shop. Says it was mixed in 1985 on the label. That'll work. Looks better brown anyway. He wanted the scallops back on, but I need to work on my stuff.

 

Rattle can (12) in the garage, scuff off the shine, and just drive it

 

I'm doing the rattle can in the garage route, too. I'm 75, running out of time, money and stamina so it's getting Rustoleum hunter green. Damn Rustoleum is reacting with the primer so I've had to wet-sand off a lot of places and respray, then wait until it dries and wet-sand and respray again until I at least get a uniform finish. Pisses me off to no end but can't start assembling and wiring until the paint is done. Will it win "Best Paint" awards? Only in my garage, when compared to leaving it in primer and not getting it on the road. From 10 feet away, after a light cut and buff, it will look like an expensive, professional job. Good enough.

 

I used Rustoleum and a roller to paint the t-bucket



And the Henry J



Both are holding up really well

 

Great results, Swade! I'm heartily encouraged, enough that I'll just keep plugging away and trying to match the quality your efforts produced.

 

Funny that I just found this thread. Used a portable car port from HF as a paint booth.

 

Cool... let's see 'em installed!

 

Gonna hope to be through buy Christmas. Lol

 

This front cap will be a pain. Many compound curves back to back.

 

I used a blow up booth and painted my panel. Came out pretty good

 

I love the fact that you get to use natural light which is so important to me. Nothing is as good as natural lighting. Todays work. Down to the front cap. Then the main body.

 

Rattle can Krylon satin black

 

Isnt that the truck you were gonna bring to me so I could store it and run it for you- WINK WINK.

 

It wasn't shiny paint but every year when my truck was in primer I'd scuff it down and run over to my buddy's house and spray a fresh coat of primer on it the day before or even the morning of the Vintiques of Yakima show the first weekend of August. There is an aerial photo from an outfit that would fly over farms and farm houses and take photo in hope of selling the photo the home owner that shows me spraying purple primer on my 48 in their driveway.

The best done in the driveway paint that I ever saw was a black lacquer paint job on a late 40's Buick sedan that two kids did in a driveway in Waco, Tx in the 70's with Laddie Segrest supervising them. That car turned out seriously nice.

 

Why yes it is LOL

It's ready for storage now too, just need the carbs tuned, window stuff, a pair of front rims and door panels painted to be pretty much done.

 

Send it down. I’ll do it. It will be fairly warm till end of December. So I can run it for you for a couple of more months.
Also finished the front cap on the Prefect/anglia today.

 

That looks great !