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Default Some painting details of Sport Chev RS COPO

Trim Tag, Floor pan, and dash paint porn for those of us who are afflicted.
Just some details of Don Marr's RS COPO, which I am painting.









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Excellent work James. BC/CC or single?
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James excellent representation of the underbody, upper and lower primer coverage and body color overspray. The dash suede texture fantastic. Well done!
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Am I the only one wondering what the roughage looking area is in the pic at base of dash ?
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Am I the only one wondering what the roughage looking area is in the pic at base of dash ?
It's the automix 3M beige 2 part seam sealer... it flows and doesn't tool well at all...

I used - 3m Fast & Firm Beige on any visible seams because it tools like original.
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Heavy build asphaltic based undercoat that I make, because it is impossibly to find anything that looks correct.
Some spray tests... the heavier is lower pressure...


The drivers door skin had been replaced with a NOS one in 1973 and was never shot with undercoat like original in the passenger door.
So it got it now...


Inside the Trunk on the quarters.




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Excellent work James. BC/CC or single?
Most people would be hard pressed to tell it isn't lacquer.

I lost ZERO points on paint for a customer's Warbonnet Yellow Firemist LT1 at the NCRS National show on the paint application ~ as well as the physical properties of the color/metallic content etc. However I sent multiple sprayout cards to the NCRS in order to get the paint color 100% correct, but take in mind color also changes by the way the paint is applied.

SPECIFICALLY METALLICS change by the way they are applied. Lacquer has metallic flakes in the pigment with binders etc. - the flakes do not lie flat... the are at differing angles, BC CC metallics are too flat and the new formulas are WAY heavy on metallic content.
With the warbonnet I scanned my 71 dealer album at the paint store and then reduced metallic by 20% and 30% did sprayouts boxing the color and clear for 2 coats and then a single coat of clear. After sending back and forth with the NCRS I ended up at a 27% metal flake reduction FROM WHAT THE CAMERA PICKED UP in the SCAN.


The headlamp bezels and all jambs are unpolished - requires flattening agent in the paint to replicate... 30% flattener in the clear/color



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Nice,incredible detail James.Way to sweat the details.
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Not to hi-jack my own thread with a tangent on paint...
After painting the corvette in 5 weeks last year including color sendouts with NCRS national paint judges etc - I did a bunch of paint research regarding GM lacquer application with regard to application texture (corvettes cannot be reflowed in a baking oven) this results in them being quite a bit rougher overall especially below the belt line when compared to an original metal car.

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Firemist paints were a cadillac color line which was manufactured by a company out of New Jersey utilizing a fine borosilicate glass flake which was more like a pearl in that it did not reflect using aluminum flakes it lumineses, allows color refraction and diffusion of light in the same color, pearls previously were natural ground mica or ground pearl. Whereas firemist were a precise manufactured product which was uniform and repeatable, BASF currently owns the company (patents trademarks) and manufactures the borosilicate flake. if I did another Ontario Orange, Warbonnet Yellow, or Steel Cities Grey car I would AT minimum get the REAL STUFF and do some spray outs.
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