New paint... Mostly done... Had some issues

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Aug 13, 2013 | 09:58 AM

Scrws6

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New paint... Mostly done... Had some issues

Well 5 horse compressor I found in a dump, some cheap trinity black metallic base and clear. A cheap paint gun from autozone and a lot of issues along the way, lessons learned aside, I'm very happy with it, now on to the buffing. Take a look and let me know what you

Aug 13, 2013 | 01:34 PM

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Awesome DIY , what was total time and $ invested

Aug 13, 2013 | 03:08 PM

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Looks good so far!

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Awesome DIY , what was total time and $ invested

I'm with this guy, I'm seriously considering buying all the stuff and doing some work on my car also. What buffer are you going to use? Is there a write up that you used to get this started/done? Thanks!

Aug 13, 2013 | 03:23 PM

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I started end of May and piece by piece painting until I had to do the rear fenders doors and sills, paint and gun totals were about $600 between getting more laqcuer thinner to clean and sandpaper, tape, plastic. No real write up followed, but the paint and bodywork section has some good knowledge. YouTube has quite a few tutorials on painting and helped out with a lot of building your own paint booth, prep, spray techniques etc...buffer is a drill operated with wool pad from oreillys, it may be blasphemy, but my practice panels have
turned out really well, I have a porter cable with foam pads, but that will be down the road. Appreciate the kind words!