Laid a couple hands of basecoat on my 69 HEMI Charger..

Posted By: domingo

Laid a couple hands of basecoat on my 69 HEMI Charger.. - 03/23/12 01:52 AM

After having spent weeks bodyworking and blocking the exterior bodypanels of the car at the shop with help of all the crew here.

We laid a couple coats of f8 basecoat to help us catch any small flaws before hitting the booth on saturday.

Man, it looks good.

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Posted By: domingo

Re: Lid a couple hands of basecoat to my 69 HEMI Charger... - 03/23/12 01:53 AM

Posted By: domingo

Re: Lid a couple hands of basecoat to my 69 HEMI Charger... - 03/23/12 01:54 AM

Posted By: domingo

Re: Lid a couple hands of basecoat to my 69 HEMI Charger... - 03/23/12 01:56 AM

I am sure this car never thought it would rise from the ashes!

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Posted By: Pacnorthcuda

Re: Lid a couple hands of basecoat to my 69 HEMI Charger... - 03/23/12 01:56 AM

yea baby---looks REAL good!

Posted By: domingo

Re: Lid a couple hands of basecoat to my 69 HEMI Charger... - 03/23/12 01:58 AM

Last one...

You can read and check out the complete resto process here: http://www.facebook.com/1969.hemi.charger

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Posted By: pacifica

Re: Laid a couple hands of basecoat on my 69 HEMI Charger.. - 03/23/12 02:30 AM

lookin' great!! good luck with the "shoot"

Posted By: ScottSmith_Harms

Re: Laid a couple hands of basecoat on my 69 HEMI Charger.. - 03/23/12 02:31 AM

Looking sweet D!

Posted By: BloFish

Re: Laid a couple hands of basecoat on my 69 HEMI Charger.. - 03/23/12 03:06 AM

Nice

Posted By: RestoRick

Re: Laid a couple hands of basecoat on my 69 HEMI Charger.. - 03/23/12 03:58 AM

wooohooo!!

Posted By: Kern Dog

Re: Laid a couple hands of basecoat on my 69 HEMI Charger.. - 03/23/12 04:53 AM

I didn't know that other guys did this!
I have had a few projects that I suspected were ready for paint after countless hours of block sanding.....This tactic of laying on some shine to highlight flaws seemed a little wasteful to me at first, but I've grown to like it.
Did this car get your super frame connector design? I recall a thread in the cornering forum with pictures. Great idea and great work.

Posted By: domingo

Re: Laid a couple hands of basecoat on my 69 HEMI Charger.. - 03/23/12 03:36 PM

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I didn't know that other guys did this!
I have had a few projects that I suspected were ready for paint after countless hours of block sanding.....This tactic of laying on some shine to highlight flaws seemed a little wasteful to me at first, but I've grown to like it.
Did this car get your super frame connector design? I recall a thread in the cornering forum with pictures. Great idea and great work.

Yes, we like to do that. We thought this one was ready for the paint booth when looking at it in primer, but after some f8 paint we could still catch some flaws.

Some people say that doing this will cause paint adhesion problems afterwards, but that is not true, as long as you scuff the paint ENTIRELY once more after hitting the paint booth. Then you spray it with 2 more coats of base and then cleat and it works just fine!

Also we like to do it this way because since its all covered already with the right shade of basecoat then it's a lot easier to get full paint coverage. Even if it it goes a bit thin inside the paintbooth in a spot that doesnt get as much paint as others it will still show the right color even if it got a teeny bit less paint.

Posted By: Silver70

Re: Laid a couple hands of basecoat on my 69 HEMI Charger.. - 03/23/12 04:30 PM

Looking good

I don't purposely do some base coat to look for flaws, but there's been a few times I didn't catch them til a car was getting painted.

Posted By: Morty426

Re: Laid a couple hands of basecoat on my 69 HEMI Charger.. - 03/23/12 05:50 PM

Cool

Posted By: JMCFAN

Re: Laid a couple hands of basecoat on my 69 HEMI Charger.. - 03/23/12 08:32 PM

Quote:

I didn't know that other guys did this!
I have had a few projects that I suspected were ready for paint after countless hours of block sanding.....This tactic of laying on some shine to highlight flaws seemed a little wasteful to me at first, but I've grown to like it.
Did this car get your super frame connector design? I recall a thread in the cornering forum with pictures. Great idea and great work.

When you find flaws after a couple of coats of basecoat how do you proceed?

Posted By: domingo

Re: Laid a couple hands of basecoat on my 69 HEMI Charger.. - 03/23/12 11:53 PM

Quote:

Quote:

I didn't know that other guys did this!
I have had a few projects that I suspected were ready for paint after countless hours of block sanding.....This tactic of laying on some shine to highlight flaws seemed a little wasteful to me at first, but I've grown to like it.
Did this car get your super frame connector design? I recall a thread in the cornering forum with pictures. Great idea and great work.

When you find flaws after a couple of coats of basecoat how do you proceed?

Usually the flaws are so small that it only takes some blocking to fix them and then just lay some more basecoat on.

Or they can be minute scratches, so scuff some, then fill with some putty filler, sand down, and then baseoat again and continue checking.

Posted By: domingo

Re: Laid a couple hands of basecoat on my 69 HEMI Charger.. - 07/13/12 03:32 AM

Finally we were able to hit the paint booth....

It turned out nice!

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Posted By: domingo

Re: Laid a couple hands of basecoat on my 69 HEMI Charger.. - 07/13/12 03:33 AM

another

Posted By: domingo

Re: Laid a couple hands of basecoat on my 69 HEMI Charger.. - 07/13/12 03:34 AM

one more

Posted By: domingo

Re: Laid a couple hands of basecoat on my 69 HEMI Charger.. - 07/13/12 03:35 AM

other side

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Posted By: domingo

Re: Laid a couple hands of basecoat on my 69 HEMI Charger.. - 07/13/12 03:37 AM

last one

Posted By: shakerjoe

Re: Laid a couple hands of basecoat on my 69 HEMI Charger.. - 07/13/12 03:53 AM

Now that looks SHWEEEET

Posted By: domingo

Re: Laid a couple hands of basecoat on my 69 HEMI Charger.. - 07/13/12 03:55 AM

Thanks!!!

Now comes assembly time!!!

Posted By: 71redcuda

Re: Laid a couple hands of basecoat on my 69 HEMI Charger.. - 07/13/12 07:47 AM

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Thanks!!! Now comes assembly time!!!

The fun part begins..The car is going to be a killer when its done!

Posted By: 68-scatpack-rt

Re: Laid a couple hands of basecoat on my 69 HEMI Charger.. - 07/13/12 10:55 AM

what a great color! that thing looks awesome.

Posted By: wally426ci

Re: Laid a couple hands of basecoat on my 69 HEMI Charger.. - 07/13/12 12:08 PM

Looks great!!

Posted By: dobie

Re: Laid a couple hands of basecoat on my 69 HEMI Charger.. - 07/13/12 12:57 PM

Looks great!

Posted By: domingo

Re: Laid a couple hands of basecoat on my 69 HEMI Charger.. - 07/13/12 06:19 PM

Posted By: DPelletier

Re: Laid a couple hands of basecoat on my 69 HEMI Charger.. - 07/13/12 10:19 PM

Looks Fabulous!

...i could be biased;

Dave

Posted By: hemi68charger

Re: Laid a couple hands of basecoat on my 69 HEMI Charger.. - 07/14/12 12:29 AM

Looks awesome Domingo..

Posted By: a12superbee

Re: Laid a couple hands of basecoat on my 69 HEMI Charger.. - 07/14/12 01:38 AM

Shiny f8 is why I'll never agree with the green car = kiss of death nonsense.

Posted By: 71TA

Re: Laid a couple hands of basecoat on my 69 HEMI Charger.. - 07/14/12 03:02 PM

Where are the gaskets

Posted By: domingo

Re: Laid a couple hands of basecoat on my 69 HEMI Charger.. - 07/14/12 04:04 PM

Do you have em for a heater delete car????

Posted By: DaveDudek

Re: Laid a couple hands of basecoat on my 69 HEMI Charger.. - 07/15/12 09:39 PM

Looks beautiful Domingo.

Posted By: Dixie

Re: Laid a couple hands of basecoat on my 69 HEMI Charger.. - 07/16/12 01:25 AM

Looks great!!

Posted By: kdsmith07

Re: Laid a couple hands of basecoat on my 69 HEMI Charger.. - 07/16/12 04:29 AM

looks great!do you just lay on a coat of clear to get it shiney and check for imperfections or something different?thanks.it looks like all that blocking really paid off.

Posted By: 69charger440_6pa

Re: Laid a couple hands of basecoat on my 69 HEMI Charger.. - 07/16/12 05:10 PM

Looks great

Posted By: tpabayflyer

Re: Laid a couple hands of basecoat on my 69 HEMI Charger.. - 07/17/12 08:59 PM

Nice work Domingo.... I also used one of your shaker kits for my 71 chal and it came out great! thanks!!! TBF