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Got a few touchups to do on the familymobile (replaced a door after I whacked a trolley bay last year, the numpties at the scrapyard scraped a mint door with a forklift!), only problem is that it's metallic green. Can get the paint and lacquer fine, but how do I go about blending it in?
Obviously I'll prep the area smooth, and finish that with primer. But that'll overlap the lacquer that's already on. If I then spray just past the primer, then lacquer over the top of that (again spraying a slightly larger area than the paint just applied) will it look poxy or what?
I'm just thinking some areas will have primer-paint-lacuqer-primer-paint-lacquer, some will have primer-paint-lacquer-paint-lacquer, some will have primer-paint-lacquer-lacquer and so on.
Would mask off quite a wide area, then leave 'soft' edges to the repaired area in order to cut it in. Do I need to cut in the unlacquered metallic too or just leave that till the lacquer is on?
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I'm not sure what you mean (prolly not your explanation, more the wine I've drunk ;D) I'll read it again in the morning and see if I can make any sense of it. Basically though, if say, for instance you are spraying a door that is in primer and the car is a metalic (I'm Talking base and laquer here as opposed to straight metalic) then you would prep the door and also the two adjoining panels. The door, and a few inches into both adjoining panels would be prepped ready for basecoat (i.e. 800w+d) then the rest of the two adjoining panels prepped for laquer (i.e. either grey Scotchpad or 1200w+d) Spray the door with the basecoat drifting/blending slightly into the two adjoining panels. Once happy with coverage, then laquer all three panels fully. You shouldn't be able to see the blend if done right. I should stay off wine when giving tech info!  |
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I think I explained badly but I've gained the info I need from your explanation, which was the answer to the question I would have asked had I not been a traveller bodge-artist  Basically I'm only painting the middle bit of the door - there's a deep jaggy scrape (think lots of W shapes on top of each other) about 4" tall by 2" wide. I was only going to paint the middle of the door, as I thought it was fairly easy to blend in - a professional bodyshop managed it to the rear 1/4 panel so I was going to try the same thing. Would this be a world of pain, and would I be better advised to follow your exact instructions and totally paint door + surrounding area? |
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If the damage is central to the door then you would easily get away with doing just the door. If it's close to an adjoining panel then you may have to blend into that panel. If it is central then you can just prep the area around it for base (800w+d), basecoat the damaged/(primed) area blending it into the original colour, then laquer the full panel (prepped with grey Scotchpad or 1200w+d). Bear in mind, some colours take further to blend than others. Some colours are fantastic and will dead match panel to panel! (pretty rare , but not impossible)
The finish will depend on what paint you are using. If it's 2K (twin pack) then it won't be an issue as your finish will come straight from the gun. If it's cellulose, then you'll have a fair bit of elbow grease to reach the same finish.
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It'll be celly..... and yeah the damage couldn't be more central if it tried I'll give it a bash, worse that can happen is I end up painting the whole panel! cheers for the advice  |
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