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for someone who has never sprayed a car, how hard would a light color like sublime or hemi orange be to spray? in terms of stripes and stuff, and covering bodywork.
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Get a spray out card and see how many coats it takes to get proper coverage.
 
Know nothing about it, but from what my body guy has been telling me it is not exactly easy. He has told me that each brand of paint has it's own special needs. When my car gets sprayed it will be getting done by his buddy, who happens to have a complete set of guns. One for sealer, one for the base coat and one for the clear. He has told me that one of the things that helps with the finished product is a second shooting of clear coat. He is going to shoot mine with 5 coats of clear, strip the tape/paper off, wet sand it then retape and spray another 5 coats of clear. Rambled enough, good luck.....
 
inkjunkie said:
Know nothing about it, but from what my body guy has been telling me it is not exactly easy. He has told me that each brand of paint has it's own special needs. When my car gets sprayed it will be getting done by his buddy, who happens to have a complete set of guns. One for sealer, one for the base coat and one for the clear. He has told me that one of the things that helps with the finished product is a second shooting of clear coat. He is going to shoot mine with 5 coats of clear, strip the tape/paper off, wet sand it then retape and spray another 5 coats of clear. Rambled enough, good luck.....
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Bear in mind not all clear coat is created equal.
You can buy clear coat that is 75 dollars a gallon and you can buy clear that is 600 dollars a gallon.
10 coats of clear is a whole lotta clear! Hmmm
 
clutch said:
Bear in mind not all clear coat is created equal.
You can buy clear coat that is 75 dollars a gallon and you can buy clear that is 600 dollars a gallon.
10 coats of clear is a whole lotta clear! Hmmm
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Car is getting sprayed with http://www.matrixsystem.com/ products. He will be using the upper end line of there stuff. Live on a gritty, silty dirt road and he is just using the clear as a bit of extra insurance......as he explained it to me the second batch of clear is what gives the car it's mirror appearance. The guy that will be painting the car used to work here http://www.factorymuscle.net/index.php before retiring so I have little to no doubt about either of there abilities. The guy that will be doing the spraying, from what I have been told, did the restoration on the Hemi Cuda Mule Car......
 

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Solid colors are much more forgiving than metallics.A good prep job and foundation is 99% of a good paint job.If youre going with a sublime green,or hemi orange,its best to use a LIGHT colored foundation,such as a light colored primer,or a tintable sealer to match the color that comes close to the color you are spraying.Trying to cover a black primer or a dark primer or sealer with yellow or sublime is going to require more coats to cover than it will with a light colored foundation.
By the way,all the paint in the world laid down wont cover bad bodywork,it only magnifies it.
 
1BadDodge71 said:
Solid colors are much more forgiving than metallics.A good prep job and foundation is 99% of a good paint job.If youre going with a sublime green,or hemi orange,its best to use a LIGHT colored foundation,such as a light colored primer,or a tintable sealer to match the color that comes close to the color you are spraying.Trying to cover a black primer or a dark primer or sealer with yellow or sublime is going to require more coats to cover than it will with a light colored foundation.
By the way,all the paint in the world laid down wont cover bad bodywork,it only magnifies it.
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I agree with a lot of what has been said here. Prep is everything. Lighter colors will help hide poor bodywork. The one thing I never agreed with is using a tinted sealer close to the color of the paint. For one, unless you know how many coats it takes to get 100% coverage from the paint, the tinted sealer can give you the appearance that you have coverage, when you actually don't. That is where the color isn't really a match or exactly the tint it should be. Whenever I had trouble with a color covering, such as the late 90's green's from Ford (escorts and such) I ALWAYS used a black sealer... to cover black you KNOW 100% you have proper coverage and not a matched sealer showing through.
 
Like "1BadDodge71" said, solid colors are way more forgiving than metallic colors but with that said the best advice I can give you is to make sure you are spraying with a good quality gun that lays the material down evenly through a nice pattern. I also would use a tintable sealer but that's just me. You will receive many different suggestions on how to do it but you just have to make a decision and go with it because everyone has their own way of doing this. They all work and will all do just fine but you have to decide. I will say this, sublime green or hemi orange will be two of the easiest colors you would ever want to spray.
 
the gun is very important as well, my dad and I sprayed a ranger truck bed with white single stage enamel and the gun we used was garbage and the job came out like carbage so make sure you have a good gun and do some pre sprays
 
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