How would you go about this?
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Okay.
So it’s coming time to squirt some paint and flow detectors on this thing.I’m debating on how to go about panel/booth setup.
I’m thinking, Fenders on. I can get everything I need to with them on.
Doors off so I can get all the jambs nicely.
Hood and Trunk Lid off so I can get all their jamb areas too.The Hood and trunk lid won’t be too hard, they’re going to be 90% two tone a different color. so I’ll make a butt match passable.
Sort of undecided on the front and rear valance? On or off?
Now on hanging the doors (From the ceiling)
You think I’d be best trying to shoot the interior and exterior at once? Or shoot the interior, mask it, then hanging it and doing the exterior while I do the rest of the car?I know that the more surface I have to paint on something, the more likely I am to get dry mists/overspray/runs.
So my thinking is do the inside/underside first, then mask it, then hang it (From the ceiling) and do the exterior side while I shoot the exterior of the car.
Is this the route you guys would take on all of this?
Should I possibly take the route of jambing the car, then assembling the doors and what not and shooting the exterior?
I’ve done this method before… But I usually have to worry about blow through going through the masking getting all over my jambs. Leading to unnecessary work.
How would you do this?
Car is a 66 mustang.
Richard
if its a mettalic i would jamb it put the doors an fenders on put the hood an decklids on stands an shoot it all at once solid color i would peice paint if i was tender lower valances headlmp doors an rear qtr extensions i would shoot when i jambed it an set em off ta the side
shoot it in pieces like Ding 😉 . Even if you jamb it first you can tape the jambs so no over spray gets in there and also so the tape line is practically invisible
I like to do those cars with the doors on and the front end sheetmetal off. Same way the factory did it. Jambs and shell in the same application = no tape lines in jambs and the bolt heads on the door hinges get body color like factory.
Clearly I’ve no experience of that particular car :lol1 , but on a metallic I generally base the jambs, insides and edges first, then hang all the panels loosely on the car to base the exterior, then strip back down again to get continuous coverage with the clear.
If speed is a consideration; jambs, insides and edges based and cleared first, then rebuild and shoot the exterior with soft foam tape in the panel gaps.
And if it’s just a quick ‘n’ dirty blow over job, tape up so that you can open and close the doors, hood and trunk whilst you’re painting and do the lot at once :blush:
i agree with bondo if its metalic id put the doors ect back on that way theres no probs with metalics sitting wrong
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