Here's what happened in a condensed version.

First paint job, looked great. Started color-sanding and buffing and went through on a couple of small areas on the 1/4 panel (painter did, not me!). Wasn't into the base coat, but left a milky image. Figured out he painted 3 coats of clear, sanded the whole car, and then added two more. No problem with this other than you now CANNOT go through the top two or you'll leave an image where you get into the sanded clear coat. He thought about blending the areas, but also figured we weren't done sanding and in all likeliness we'll go through several more. So he re-shot the car.

Second job looked awesome too. After completely sanding the car down we start to buff. Do about half a 1/4 panel and then notice some tiny white dots. They're UNDER the clear, on top of the base coat. Nobody else was spraying in the shop at the time he did, so he figured it must have been a dirty gun. They're all over the place so we can't leave them. On to job three and where we're at now.

The painter has been 100% stand up but I can't let him do it again. I will strip the car back to primer, re-block and primer, seal, and shoot it myself.

Jody

Dang!
 

Damn Jody, I am really sorry to hear that....but you are correct in taking to time to just do it the right way...The joys of building a car...hang in there buddy, it will be wicked when finished. :thumbsup:

Yeah, but now I'm re-thinking my color choice! :willy:

Jody

i know how you feel man, we have re-done parts of my car also and it makes a man go crazy :willy:

What color are you thinking about? The original rendering?

Mike

No, todays choice is silver with Black Hockey stripes

Sorry to hear about the problems, Jody. :( :mad:

like almost a BMW slate grey with some metal flake..... black stripe and the black rims in the renderings..... hot damn that would be awesome :willy:
not to put ideas in your head or nothing... :cool:

Jody, that sucks. Sorry to hear about it. I'll be painting my car in July and hearing stories like this makes me cringe. I have no desire to have my car in Paint Jail so I will be shooting the car myself. I've been reading a ton of tech articles on painting with these new base/clear systems and have purchased several videos on the internet that were recommended to me by some folks over at Camaros.net. I'm curious as to why the car was blocked between clear coats. I thought with the new systems in use today this was not necessary. Or is this the secret to achieving a 'smooth-as-glass' finish?

Oh, and in regards to the color....I personally liked that Orange color you were going with in the original rendering. It was a Chrysler color...wasn't it?

Tony,

There really is no reason to do that in my opinion. He insists that the final product will be flatter even if you color-sand both ways. Makes no sense to me but he's the pro. To me it would make the color-sanding a little easier as the clear would be flatter; but once you color sand it either way it should look the same.

The color in the rendering is Kris' fault! :thumbsup: I actually was trying to get him to match a solid orange truck we saw at SEMA the year before and he kept coming back with this burnt orange which on his monitor looked the same as the pic of the truck I sent him. Not very long after I started liking his color a lot more than mine! Problem is it's a made-up color by the program he uses to do the modeling. I wish I could find something that wasn't full of pearl and I'd do it. I guess I could go with the orange on the truck, I had tracked down the shop that did it. Here's the pic of the color I wanted originally as this Camaro is a Hugger Orange car. To me it's a modern version of Hugger Orange and I was going to keep the black Hockey stripes. What do you think of this color?

http://www.camcojb.com/Hugger pickup.bmp