another pearl blend question
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Does my closest-to-base midcoat covers entire base painted area, including base blending?
I was told to blend the closest one to cover “full” base painted area, not sure if this includes the blending area of basecoat, of if it even matters ….
The basecoat is going to match factory; I have to pay my vendor to get exact matching :S
Why is this so hard for you to understand??Get your first color(solid white)to match the car.That is the most important part if it does not match STOP!!!Look at the spray out of the pearl coats you did,what matches the best 2,4,6coats?Put however many coats on to match the rest of the car.If it is easier for you paint the whole side and live with a slight difference in color.You must put on however many coats of pearl on the foundation color to match your car.If this is to hard to figure out take it to a shop and be done with it,a good shop would only charge you $500 to spray it if you prepped it.
[b]Jayson M wrote:[/b]
[quote]Why is this so hard for you to understand??Get your first color(solid white)to match the car.That is the most important part if it does not match STOP!!!Look at the spray out of the pearl coats you did,what matches the best 2,4,6coats?Put however many coats on to match the rest of the car.If it is easier for you paint the whole side and live with a slight difference in color.You must put on however many coats of pearl on the foundation color to match your car.If this is to hard to figure out take it to a shop and be done with it,a good shop would only charge you $500 to spray it if you prepped it.[/quote]Jayson …. I always appreciate your help.
It is not that I don’t understand the concept, but I am trying to be careful with this since I don’t have 20 years experience like you do, and I want to get it done right. That is why I ask questions in details. I am sure that you can’t learn my profession within a month as well, so I respect yours, and ask question just to be sure.
By the way, the shop here won’t charge just $500 to paint it. Last one I ran into was $2200 to paint my 4 little new body side-skirt bodykit of my 97 Honda Accord. Another one was my friend’s track with no body damage but just repaint with 2 stages …… $8000. “We done it right” ….. that is what they said for charge this much fortune. Maaco can probably do it for $500. If I still have you or my Russian painter friend live in town here, who charges reasonable but moved out of states already, I will gladly pay to have it done right for $500. I will even buy you bear & dinner!! :cheers
Also, I have done the test panel with up to 6 coats …. exactly as you said, even with one section of basecoat only. And that is how I discovered the basecoat isn’t match as you said, and non of the pearl layers matchs. So I took my test panel with sample of base to my local jobber this morning, and got into the option that they are going to take a panel of my good one, and adjust the paint with confirmation of matching.
I have painted few cars with no trouble, and even a 02 TL pearl white with no issue ( at least I can’t see any defect). But, I never try reverse blending, and I want to learn and get it done better. If you can be kind enough to just answer my question, since this is the only thing I want to make sure then I am done, I will be very appropriated. Honestly, you don’t have to keep on telling me to check base and do the test panel, because I have already done it twice, and I will do it again when my jobber gets the paint matched.
Re-read my post,I already answered your question,you are making it too complicated.
wherever your last coat of groundcoat goes, put your pearl a few inches past that. If your sprayout matches, it should blend easy. If not get your sprayout right.
Think about this, if your groundcoat is blended properly it wont have full coverage at the end. You dont need full coverage with the pearl either. Where you have full coverage of your white base you will need the amount of pearl that you have on your letdown panel.
[b]Jayson M wrote:[/b]
[quote]Re-read my post,I already answered your question,you are making it too complicated.[/quote]Did you???
Sorry, but I have read all your posts few times, and I got the point of spraying the 2nd coat past the fender ( this is from your early post when I was just painting the fender ). Nothing says about coverage on base blend or not.
Honestly, within my mind, I am pretty sure that I have to blend the closest midcoat further than the base blend. But, since I got screwed up by my mismatch Dupont basecoat ( once again, you are completely right on this one ), I honestly don’t want to assume anything, but taking experts’ answer.
You are probably right, I might have made this too complicated to myself.
your first coat of pearl will go out past the edge of the ground coat. then each coat of pearl will go out past the last coat.
[b]lild wrote:[/b]
[quote]your first coat of pearl will go out past the edge of the ground coat. then each coat of pearl will go out past the last coat.[/quote]Thanks for the confirmation B)
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