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hey guys I thought id show this off a little here, the plan was buy a power wheels and make it "cool" for my little girl, but daddy with a spray gun and a cabnit of colors is a bad idea so it ended...

heres a few pics of a customers car i did in vintage burgandy metallic from restoration shop, color looked good in some lights but sometimes it looked like a lipstick color....

thanks everyone!!! I'm still trying to talk the guy into a repaint but I dont think he wants to go that way.
how about this idea, might be wrong but I'll throw it out there. I have anouther thread...

i dig the color also but the customers always right....i guess:( . I tried to talk him into a new color but he dosent want to pay for the paint a second time. He thinks i can just "scuff it a little...

I think he wants a bit of both to be honest, I think thats why he wanted a black flake. But this afternoon he told me no boat or lowrider flake look so i'm assuming he wants a smaller micron flake....

hey guys, back to ask another crazy question. With only the info from this site about 1 year ago I did my 1st paint job and a few mounths later started a small shop.
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that might be the case but I bought the black base and thinner at the same time from matrix supplyer, though it was my first time using her very hot reducer but booth temps were pushing 98. The...

yes sir primer and paint was both matrix brand. I've use the matrix primer before and not had an issue and I have use matrix base before with ok results. This black base just seemed strange looking...

that seems right to me on the hood its all fiberglass but the roof is all metal and its gouging when in the sun and not even in places there was body work done. Im stumped!!!! I left it in the sun...

update: I pulled the car into the sun and marked the ends of the gouges with chalk, left it for an hour and when I came back they had all grown, some by an inch. Any ideas as to why this could have...

thx len thats what it looks like to me. The paint was mabey 3 days old when it was pulled out and so the owner could take it and it was 100 degrees outside (florida), the car sat in the sun for the...

hey guys, I just finished painting a customers car, before I pulled it out of my shop there were no imperfections on it, he had a tow guy come pick it up and take it to a tuning shop, the next day he...

yes sir all fiberglass
thank you all very much!!!
rob

hay guys im about to prime this fiberglass hood i've been working on and I was wondering if I need to use a flex agent in the primer or if I need to spray it with adhesion promoter?
Its a stock...

the burnt orange he liked is a 1975 gm color i belive, the guys a little strange, he basicaly said he wants burnt orange but different then the other guys prelude. Its my fault i told him not to copy...

i will buy some burnt orange and play with it, the only problem is paint costs and I only have a few colors on hand to work with. I was just wondering if mabey someone on here had any advice on a...

the owner dosent really know what color he is wanting, there is already a burnt orange with black roof prelude, he wanted a be bit different. If just adding a bit of black will mess the color up does...

hey guys I have a customer who wants his prelude painted burnt orange with a black roof but he wants the burnt orange a little darker. Can I just put a measured amount of black (both same brand...

yep found that out the hard way!!! what a mess almost ready to give up on painting, every time I try its a different problem, most ive been able to solve but this one seems like a real mess.

I dont want to use the fee if I can solve the problem. I will try a different clear that was not kept in that cabnit. The more I think about it I had my pad for waxing sitting on top of it (was just...

thx guys i saw that post i just didnt want to hijack his post.
my main questions are what fisheye eliminator to use with the urethane clear (I tried smoothie that was real bad) and how can I...

hey guys today i sprayed clear on a hood of a customers car and about 50 fish eyes showed up, worse where i strarted my first pass but bad thought the whole hood. After one coat I stoped spraying, I...

hey guys I had a customer bring me a car he had painted a couple years ago and the paint has begain to bubble in a few spots and there seemed to be what I think is checking in a few spots. when I...

yep split rims. wont be doing it again, but theres not much I wont try once on a vehicle.
rob

tank treads:scratchch .......VERY EXTREME have to look into that.
i'll look into the kenworth mirriors thanks for the tip. Gotta do something cool with exhaust, last one like mine I did had...

not to many crazy ideas all put together? I dont mind going extreme at all, I was just adraid that was to many crazy ideas for one old truck, could it get to outrages and end up dumb.:rottentom ...

thanks for all the ideas guys keep them coming!!!
As for the legal of it, It will only be a show truck when done, I have already built one like mine for a guy and its on the road with no problems...

hey guys Im about to start on my next project and I wanted to pick your brains for color ideas for the truck. Its a 1964 c60 2 ton, I will be stretching a bed to fit the truck so it will be a great...

just so I know, the first pics I posted, would that still be orange peel or is it urethane wave or just to heavy with the gun. I just want to know what to call it so I dont do it again!
Also does...

thanks man
looks like i'll be ordering a new gun from len but at this rate i'll need 3 more jobs just to pay for it:rottentom
rob

yep HVLP. I thought that would be a ok gun, better then my old HF gun.
as for the price, with me just starting out (only 5 cars under my belt) and being in a small town, I figure if my old man and I...

well heres the out come of the job if anyone cares. The owner brings the truck, we look at it, he tells me hes so upset with the paint he cant even take it to the mud hole, so I feal sorry for the...

I guess i should have said its a single stage AU I used. No clear.
The owner only paid me $350 for the job and I bought the paint, so I guess he got a $350 paint job but I hate turning out work...

hey guys I just shoot my first ever AU job and Im still learning gun controll so I was playing with distance and speed, this is the first time ive used the matrix paints as well. Ive shoot bc/cc...

the benz (customers car) is smooth, the jeep (wifes) is textured, so I guess I need to know how to handle both. I belive they are both bare gray plastic, the gray ones were raw from the factory...

hey guys I need to paint the bumpers and side trim plastic on a 1995 jeep grand cheroke and a mercades. Im oainting both cars black 1 stage, the bumpers and trim have never been painted before. I...

yes I know Philv is right, (I think he always is), I always get myself into these crap jobs because I feel sorry for the guys, now that STD's sitting in my shop. I did tell him there might be...

ok after talking to the owner he told me the painter shot 4 coats of paint mixed correctly, then on the last coat on the cab and tailgate he ran out of thinner so he used xylene on the very last...

up untill 2 mounths ago I had know idea what a mud hole was, these rednecks out here in FL build these monster trucks and take them out and drive through a gaint mud hole to see who can get the most...

len I thought about doing that but the truck got stained the first time it went into the mud hole so I was afread if I just sanded and buffed it would stain again.
is that possable?

hey guys I need some advice before I jump into this next job. The owner has a truck he had painted with what he says is a urethane single stage equipment paint and the guy painting it ran out of...

hey guys, thanks for the advice on the pricing of my last job. The guy was OK with the price of $1300 but still dosent think hes getting a deal.
Im putting together a price sheet for stuff now so I...

jersey mike, thats only single stage shop line AE with no clear. I dont know how long it will hold up but it looks ok for now.
rob

hey there sir, I am by no means a pro but I have shot a car in AE, and polished it. I painted this mustang and got a ton of orange peel, I waited 2 mounths and dry sanded with 500 wet, sanded with...

68 chevyman, thanks you sir for the incouragement!! I hadent planed on just doing paint/bodywork untill just the other day. I quit my job a year ago and my plan was to build rods and muscle cars and...

hey guys, the more I thought about what everyone here said it made sense..I will never let a job go out my door that cheap again. If my prices are that cheap I not only cut my own throat but I also...

very very nice cars sir!!! I love seeing true craftmanship.

thanks guys for all the kind words and advice, I live in a small town in FL and was worried if I charged any more than $10 an hour no body would come to me. Im not trying to get rich, I really do it...

hey guys, I just finished a body work/ paint job for a guy and now its bill time and I would like to know if i'm in the ball park with my prices. This is my only 2nd full paint job ever (but ive...

thank you len!! You sir are like wise Yoda:) , every time I have a question I post it and you answer it, the same day, sometimes within seconds!!!!
thanks for all the free info, if you charged for...