Thread: Garage Painting for Dummies

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I'll be reading this thread to keep up with it. I painted my car in the garage in the past and found it to be tight and messy.
A buddy and I painted a 70 Ford Mach 1 under a wide carport about 2 years ago and worked out real nice. Before painting the first thing we did after wipeing down the car was to hose down the cement to keep the dust down and to keep the paint from sticking to the drive. I don't know if this will help you just letting you know how we did it.
Kurt

I will start by saying........if you are a rookie painter, you DO NOT want to start your first paint job in candy!!!.
Candy is the hardest paint to lay on correctly. If you do not have experience especially in HOK candy you can "tigerstripe" the paint, run it and lots of other things that can happen. I have been doing custom paint work off and on for 30+ yrs. And I won't attempt candy because I have not done enough candy paint jobs to be good at it. If you make a mistake with candy, you must start all over again, there is no fixing it.
If you practice with other paints, you can use HOK pearl. The pearls are more forgiving. There are many videos and books out there to help point you in the right direction but the main thing is to get experience and practice, pratice,practice.

Steve - It will take a LOT more then a condensed version to do this right. The new paints - they can get complicated. I would also like to steer you clear of HOK paints. This is not because they are bad, they aren't. It's because they are very expensive and usually not available at your local auto body supply. You would be better off with PPG, DuPont or R-M which you can buy locally. You also have another major problem - California!!!! They are starting to require water based paint with little or no VOC's and that's a bag of worms ,most of us elsewhere in the US don't have a clue about how to paint this stuff yet. And do you want to do a dark color as your first paint job?

Here's a great website for painting http://spi.forumup.org/index.php?mforum=spi and here's some more good info with lots of reading:http://www.crankshaftcoalition.com/w...y_and_exterior

(The exam will be tomorrow morning to see how much you learned)

Somthing I heard the other day.. Cal. using waterbase paint but the clear is still the same. I ask why bother