a little bit of body work..

[SHO Continental]

I was bored this morning.. and had some spare time, so I went out and got some paint. Since I got my '95 the driver side fender had some flakey paint, and the last few times I've washed it more would flake off.. well it was getting to the point where I had barely any paint left.. so.. I decided to make it look less nasty.

this is the flaked part..


main sanding area masked off


ahh yes..



body masked off


used some cheapo rattle can duplicolor..


primer


paint


cleared..


It's still drying right now, I'll go snap a pic after the masking is all off.. so.. now bad for $20 worth of paint and a few hours eh?

 

[mosho93]

damn, looks pretty good! Especially for a rattle can job. wow!

 

[SHO Continental]

finished thing.. just have to wash the rest of the car and polish this fender now.

 

[TYSHO]

Your missing the pin stripe, not that it makes it look good anyway!

 

[marvsho17]

Looks pretty damn good. Jeese, i'm going to have to fight off the urge to touchup my car this weekend now.

 

[Calypso]

Looks pretty freaking good. I'm planning on painting my hood soon with some duplicolor. Hopefully it turns out as good. It's all primered, and that's as far as I got. Any tips?

 

[FoeSho]

damn, I have never seen results that good with rattle cans before! Good work! Did you clear it after and with how many coats?

 

[GoofSHO]

Hey Mat..... GoofSHO II is next. Come on over....lol Looks good!

B

 

[blacklabel]

Looks pretty good. I'm going to be touching up spots that I'm going to apply por15 to over the next few days hopefully.

 

[NJSHO]

Wow, I wish I could get my color to match that closely. Every can of oxford white I buy is no where near the color of the car.

 

[2 4shofast]

Damn that came out awesome for a rattle can job....you want to do my whole car...lol

 

[SHO Continental]

Your missing the pin stripe, not that it makes it look good anyway!

pahh... who needs the pinstripe.

Looks pretty freaking good. I'm planning on painting my hood soon with some duplicolor. Hopefully it turns out as good. It's all primered, and that's as far as I got. Any tips?

lots of paint and clear

damn, I have never seen results that good with rattle cans before! Good work! Did you clear it after and with how many coats?

yes.. probably 4 coats of clear

Hey Mat..... GoofSHO II is next. Come on over....lol Looks good!

B

sounds good!! except.. the whole car would still cost a few hundred to paint with rattlecans..

 

[NeedAPartsCar]

Looks pretty freaking good. I'm planning on painting my hood soon with some duplicolor. Hopefully it turns out as good. It's all primered, and that's as far as I got. Any tips?

I think you should wait on that Matt, it add's to the sleeper affect, no one expects to be beaten by a primered taurus.

 

[RStalveyARFF]

Wow, I wish I could get my color to match that closely. Every can of oxford white I buy is no where near the color of the car.

Yeah, what's up with that?

 

[Frank]

pahh... who needs the pinstripe.

Now you need to remove the rest of the pinstripe. Not too difficult. I did it on mine. Some of the stripe peeled off pretty easily, some of it came off in tiny pieces. I used my fingernails and a plastic spatula with a sharp edge.

Frank Whittle
'95 ATX

 

[Sho Amo]

i painted my intake with that same paint. Turned out nice except the runners. i used white and you can guess what happened. Turned yellow. Its pretty kool how well the greens match up. im thinking of doin some rust repair and i will have to repaint the fender with that.

 

[blacklabel]

i painted my intake with that same paint. Turned out nice except the runners. i used white and you can guess what happened. Turned yellow.

Did you put a clearcoat on the white? If you did, thats why it turned yellow. My runners are white and they still look white and havnt discolored.

Painting things is fun.

 

[whiteman_01]

For removing the pin stripe on my car i used a 3M pin stripe removing wheel. The wheel is a soft rubber, i think, and will NOT damage the paint. I had the stripe off of my car in about a half hour. Just need a good electric drill, not battery.

So.... Do you think the paint would turn out good over carbon fiber?

 

[SHOtimeFMF]

that looks awesome.....kinda makes me want to go attempt some touchup work on my beater

 

[SHO Continental]

So.... Do you think the paint would turn out good over carbon fiber?

not on a large area like a hood.. plus the prep would cost a bit, I think it'd be worth it to just take the hood to a body shop.