Two Tone Procedure
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How would you guys handle this? I’m doing complete bc/cc repaint on an old station wagon with the long roof. The roof and pillars are one color and the whole bottom is another color, but the only place the paint line will be visible on the closed car is the B pillar. That spot is on a recessed body line about 5 inches long. The car is 5 feet tall, so I want to build a walkway on each side and paint the roof first including clear, mask it off the next day and do the bottom. So my question is how would you handle the paint line?
Not sure I follow you about the paint line,just do it like the factory did.If it was me I would do the white in single stage urethane one day,then mask it off and do your bottom color.
Do the bottom with SS?
Sorry I don’t know where I got white from 😛 What color is the roof and what color is the body going?
The top is White and the bottom is Yellow, but I’m trying to do it all in bc/cc, and I have time to do what ever I need to. Here is an example of what I mean, except the white also comes down on the A pillar.
why would you do the top then clear it? spray the top, mask it off, spray the bottom and clear the whole thing. no need to clear each color seperately.
Just didn’t want to stir up the dust by putting up and taking down the platforms several times while doing the clear coat.
All you really need is a step ladder. clearing the two colors seperately really isnt the right way to do this. you get your color the way you want it then clear is the final thing. your making it way harder on yourself than you need to.
OK, thanks Jim
:agree with JimC
[quote=”jim c” post=22272]All you really need is a step ladder. clearing the two colors seperately really isnt the right way to do this. you get your color the way you want it then clear is the final thing. your making it way harder on yourself than you need to.[/quote]
I guess I like extra work or something. I’m retired, I have time, and I would like to walk the roof with my spray passes, so what do think about this.
Using acrylic urethane DCC concept PPG instead of basecoat
1 Spray white on the roof down to the recessed body line
2 mask top to the line and spray yellow on the bottom
3 sand the whole car
4 spray clear on the top, and extend it just a couple inches past the line
5 mask the top to the paint line, and spray clear on the bottomIf you look at the Nomad picture, I don’t think this line would be visible, and with a little sanding on the line it would level out and have the exact same coverage on both sides of the line. I know this is a little tricky with basecoat, but would it work with the urethane?
well with single stage you need to wait for it to dry to tape on it (overnight) and when recoating it it will need to be sanded. Just use base coat. with SS you are gonna have a lot bigger tape line to bury than with the base
I can’t see where walking the roof on a white paint job is gonna make much of a difference. :nothingtoad
[quote=”ding” post=22576]well with single stage you need to wait for it to dry to tape on it (overnight) and when recoating it it will need to be sanded. Just use base coat. with SS you are gonna have a lot bigger tape line to bury than with the base[/quote]
you don’t have to tape up the blue. let the white single stage go down to the doors & sides, then wait for it to dry and run your two tone paint job. of course you’ll have to sand the over spray that got on the blue parts. that way you don’t have that build up line you talking about.
Here’s a 2tone caddy recently done with single stage.
” there a pin stripe going below the 2tone line.” just not done yet.[quote=”85Hernandez” post=22593
you don’t have to tape up the blue. let the white single stage go down to the doors & sides, then wait for it to dry and run your two tone paint job. of course you’ll have to sand the over spray that got on the blue parts. that way you don’t have that build up line you talking about.[/quote]
:huh:
Obviously you dont tape off for the first color. he will have to tape off the white when spraying his second color. and if he uses single stage the tape line will be thicker than if he uses base coat
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