Sunday, April 20, 2008

Lovely Day For A Spray!

Woke up to anther lovely day. Time to finish up the car! I finished back-masking to protect the good finish from overspray. I used some 3M plastic masking. It's wonderful! Like Saran Wrap for your car!



Masked off the sills to. These will get stone chip gaurd, then a black topcoat. But it needed another coat of DPLF primer. I used paper where I'd be spraying directly, rather than the plastic. I wasn't sure how the plastic would hold up under the air pressure...



Then I gathered all of the different paint components. I have a vertible chemistry set in here between prep solvent, adhesion promoter, primer, primer activator, base coat, reducer, clear coat and clear coat activator, and gun-cleaning solvent.



Time to say goodbye to the ugly bumper...



One coat of DPX180 adhesion promoter, two thin coats of DPLF primer, two coats of BC, and 4 coats of CC. The result...



It's red. Yay! All that's left is to paint the trim and sills black. I hadn't planned to paint the trim. But the car turned out so well, I just can't put on the chipped trim. I've created a bit more work, but the end result will be nicer.

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