DeeVeeEight
Fast Pedalphile
I am hoping to soon strip, repair, prime & paint my '79 'Vette. If there is a type of paint defect my car has it, all sorts of long & short cracks, spiderwebs and so on in the paint & probably in the FG too.
I have a friend who is pretty good with a spray gun, he's done a few of his own cars so I am not totally alone on this but what I want to achieve is this.... I saw a black Box Nova several years back that had a gorgeous paint job, it was a black base coat with dark red metallic effects that were mostly noticeable along the edges of the body lines. I would like to attempt to achieve a similar result. My assumption is that after prepping and priming that I will shoot 2-3 coats of black basecoat followed by 1 or 2 coats of clear that has the red metallic paint mixed in it, followed by 2-3 coats of clear.
Now I'll admit that I do not know WTF I am doing but I am willing to try. How would you go about it? The paint was referred to as Black Garnet Pearl but that is NOT to be confused with the Toyota/Lexus color of the same name.
I have a friend who is pretty good with a spray gun, he's done a few of his own cars so I am not totally alone on this but what I want to achieve is this.... I saw a black Box Nova several years back that had a gorgeous paint job, it was a black base coat with dark red metallic effects that were mostly noticeable along the edges of the body lines. I would like to attempt to achieve a similar result. My assumption is that after prepping and priming that I will shoot 2-3 coats of black basecoat followed by 1 or 2 coats of clear that has the red metallic paint mixed in it, followed by 2-3 coats of clear.
Now I'll admit that I do not know WTF I am doing but I am willing to try. How would you go about it? The paint was referred to as Black Garnet Pearl but that is NOT to be confused with the Toyota/Lexus color of the same name.