Completed "phase 1" small parts painting today! all of it came out as nice as the lucern blue scoop. did not build a booth of any kind, used 3-20" high velocity fans, opened the 2 garage doors, wet the floor. some dirt in the paint was expected but pretty darn minimal. my minimal air dryer cleaner worked great zero water issues. ppg deltron base/clear. 4 coats base, 3 clear. lph400 iwata 1.4 tip, orange cap for base, silver for clear.
sprayed over light grey epoxy primer, no white seal coat etc. probably could have used 3 coats base but did a fourth just to be sure.
i'm a rookie and extremely happy with the results. Ugh, yeh I will go ahead and do the cut buff, would be wrong not to it came out so well! pictures do no justice as experienced folks know. natural sunlight they look beautiful.
so....I had zero issues spraying white. zero runs, zero uneven coverage. It was no big deal spraying the "hardest color to paint" at all for me. so if your a rookie, don't listen to nay-sayers how not to attempt white. I found it no different than spraying anything else. just pay attention to what your doing.
I thinking the larger panels will be easier! all these different spray angles on small parts with not really enough table space might have been the hardest!
Thank you very much to the question responses I got here. it helped me a ton and saved me a few possible mistakes. appreciate it!
Painting white 72 Trans Am
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just a note to folks, this is what a "driver" job is to me. very nice, but no where what the gurus here likely accept. as long as I have no major faux paus i'm thrilled. now i'm actually looking forward to the cut/buff thing. plan to spray the rest of the car over this coming saturday and sunday. holy smokes the darn cottonwood seeds were flying around and insane miller moth plague goin on here in kansas. my shop doors one on south side and one on west side open about a foot and the three fans kept it at bay but dang was I nervous about the flying stuff. after getting over the intial nervousness I began to to get real smooth with it. enjoyed the heck out of it. most fun Iv'e had in awhile! confidence is way up! Eric
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Looks good,congrats.I sprayed the other day also and had the dam cottonwood seeds in my clear,
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was looking the parts over, and maybe its because its white, under my led shop lights you can see the very minor orange peel, like my 2015 silverado truck, but when I take the parts out to natural light, you don't see it at all unless you angle the part just right. they look awesome outside in natural light. so I remain on the fence about all the wet sand/polish process again. believe me I wouldn't consider not doing it if it were not looking good. also when wet sanding and polishing crud gets in places u cant get it out of. that whole process is a drag unless your after show car. I kinda like the idea of leaving all that clear on as max protection to. anyone else feel this way or is it nuts here to think about not doing the cut/buff? Eric
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Show car or daily driver?
A cut and buff will be easy if he OP is so small. It will also bring clarity and depth to the color, yes even white. 1968 Coronet R/T
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I know darker colours its easy to see the peaks sanding down with 1000.
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exactly my point to. in outdoor sunlight u have to really look for the op. probably because its white. this would be a benifit to white, it shows less "imperfections". the risk/reward for a rookie taking sandpaper to it just bugs me. would like to here from folks who went to a polish and wax only job like the good ol days of laquer and will it achieve a good result or is it a waste of time on modern 2 stage urethane? Eric
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Trunk, doors, hood, fenders now painted. all came out great. main body next and looking forward to that being a heavy stationary part easy to move around on.
can't avoid some pesky dirt in the paint my paint booth was using 4 fans and opening the doors some. one reason going to follow up with a wet sand. one pic makes the doors look big orange peel, their not its the multi led pattern in my overhead shop lights. lovin the white! Eric
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