Removing flames on paint-any ideas?

REALLY!! Let me know exactly how you did it cause that seems like a cheap way to strip paint!!! Did you just spray it on and let it sit or what??

 

i agree. and never walk in front of the car. always get in from the back.

 

I know, mask the car off and paint over the flames in traditional white, yellow, red, and blue. When the paint is dry, mask off the flames and paint the rest of Elky black.

 

I'm not the best photochopper in the world, but I think you get the idea from the following.

Match the main body color, scuff the flames and use a small airbrush and jam gun to soften them up a bunch using the main body color? I would even go so far as to shoot over them completely and make them true ghost flames. Up to you how much you choose to "soften" them.

 

I know centerlines,white letters and maybe even flames arent exactly "in" rite now
(or is some of that already coming back?)but, Man! that looks pretty cool.
I cant help but like it as is, in a cheesy kind of way but we all know you will figure out a way to put it over the top and send it down the road to another lucky customer.

 

Sand it down, re-shoot it how you want. SO much easier and quicker. And done they way it should be with out worries. Mike

 

pinstripe over the ghost line.

 

[QUOTE="T'RANTULA";6859702]REALLY!! Let me know exactly how you did it cause that seems like a cheap way to strip paint!!! Did you just spray it on and let it sit or what?? [/QUOTE]


Yup, Spray it on & it will Eat the Paint right off.

I had a '60 ElCamino that was Factory Laquer Green with 1 Repaint the same color.

I needed to strip the bottom of the Front Fenders to have the Louvered, Spray it on & in about 1/2 hours work The were stripped CLEAN !

Hit the with a Scotty pad & punched in 2 rows of louvers Then Primered.

 

C'mon, John, you can **** around with oven cleaner and sandpaper and a buffer and waste triple the time it would take to prep and recolor the front cap and blend back on the doors(cause it's gonna look like poo if you don't). Just paint it and be done.....good lord, the stuff you've done and posted on here ....surely you can paint half a car..... Hell, I coulda had the sheetmetal sanded in the time it took to read this thread!
Nice truck, btw

 

Having buffed away RED One Shot lettering off a WHITE vehicle, I would not hesitate to try the following: Any orange peel at all? Wet sanding the flames only, about half way through-ish. Leaving some surface to buff. I could buff away most, if not all. With 1-5 speed buffer, and not too much river sand compound and a wool pad. Follow with a foam pad and 'Purple' 3M fine polish. Tape the fender/door/hood, ect edges, and d**** the rest to keep the sling off the good stuff. Go slow. Then 'purple' and foam pad the rest of the car. Bury it with a sealant (Wizards) polish chrome and bingo-bling shine! I do wish I where there to give it a go. Not to be a kiss ***. I know what a hard-core you are Groucho. Good-luck man!

 

Thanks, my ford is jade green and it looks terrible! How did you punch louvers?

 

Is the paint metallic? If it is not and there is enough there you might sand them off and buff it out. Even with reshooting you may end up with a mismatch if you are dealing with metallic. If it's metallic or if its not pretty dang thick I think you are better off living with it cause you are probably gonna end up with a trane wreck. As a matter of fact if you are gonna reshoot front clip and doors you might as well fix anything else you dont like and reshoot the whole rig...its a big can of worms.

 

btt

 

You must live somewhere dry, warm all year, and far from the ocean. Around here if you have rust as it appears you do, it's time to repaint. Unless of course your looking for a swiss cheese type body.
I recommend taking the time you would spend on those flames and work some over time or something . Make some extra cash, and put it toward a repaint. I mess with the finish on cars on a daily bases, and this kind of thing usually ends up in a repaint in the end anyway.
Good luck with whatever you decide.

 

Those flames look gay. Sand them off and repaint.

 

I would vote for the wet sand and buff. Sure it's a lot of work but what the heck??? Whatever you do, don't spray it with easy-off. Easy-off works good to clean engines though, just spray it on, wait a few minutes, and hose it off... Takes off grease and paint. Don't ever spray it on aluminum!!!

 

if you buff it you run the risk of burning the paint, then you have the joy of repainting it..not a real easy answer to this task. good luck

 

x6. The company I work for when I'm at school uses it to remove the name off the door (its painted on) on their Peterbilts before they sell em.

 

The chances of those flames being done with 1Shot are practically nill. Outlining, maybe, ..... but the body of the flames, highly doubtful.

No easy answer Groucho. Like it or not, you're most likely facing a repaint.

 

x 3, I know I know, I can hear you now. **** That!!!!!!!! Thats To Much Work.

 

yeah I was gonna suggest oven cleaner also-if removed right away-but have noticed some of the same issues that all too often get overlooked as well when Easy-off is used or not wiped off quick enough

 

Nothing to lose. The 'flaming 'mo' has got to go! If'n the buff does burn, time to paint.

 

The point being solid RED One Shot enamel bled into the white base. These ghost flames are not solid. They wispy.

 

Easy Off is the way to go! I've been using it to remove truck and race car lettering for a long time. I would back tape those flames first so you don't get the oven cleaner where you don't want it (like tires, rims, chrome, clean paint) Sand the flames with some 800 to open up the surface and spray on the EZ Off. work in small areas and take your time. Use the old formula Easy Off, the better smelling stuff doesnt work as well, you want the old stuff that will gag you. Use a little (Fine) steel wool on it if you have to.

When you get it off, wet sand with some 1500 and try to buff a shine back into it. either way it's a dirty ****ty job. If it were me, I'd leave it, I like the flames, maybe a little pin stripe around them? Have Fun!!

 

One of the things that everyone is forgetting possibly about the Easy Off oven cleaner is the fact that everyone has used it to remove lettering off the paint on their Peterbilt etc... also forgetting that all of the big trucks typically were painted in Imron and if you haven't worked with this stuff before. It only takes about 24 hours before it cures enough to make a dance floor out of it. Old synthetic enamel or lacquer is not of the same makeup and will curdle or come right off like the One Shot paint we're all used to removing . Acrylic Enamels and urethanes of today ( or yesterday I should say currently) all will withstand the oven cleaner nicely due to the fact that they have all been treated to a shot of hardener when mixing to spray. Take caution and try an incon****uous area under the front bumper on the splash pan or something to see what it will do to the under color, if it works go for it on a small spot on the flame job, when the Easy Off works, it really works well, right EdWeird?

 

How did this car turn out?

 

maybe it's just me, but I think I'd try it---if ghost flames result, that just might be cool. whadda ya got to lose?? work a small area at a time so you don't go thru the whole paint job--my 2 cents.

 

Probably the only way is to super carefully wet sand them off with 1500-2000 grit which will take forever and you will still see where they used to be. (IF you manage to not burn through the base coat.) I had to do it on a flake job one time because I wanted to "experiment" and see what pearl would look like on top of flake. (not good) it was a pain in the *** but I eventually got all the pearl sanded back off and didnt damage the clear underneath with all the flake in it. Dont recommend that method but it is possible.

The best thing to do is just feather 'em out with a D.A., then prime and block it and re-shoot the green on the front clip and blend it in to the rest of the car.

 

Dude....He sold this car by now.....also, he's banned from here......