What was your first paint job like? Was it Big? Small? or just in the middle? Difficult? Easy? A big mess? It could be anything, for instance, a motorcycle fender, gas tankor aflat piece of steel.
I remember the first thing I painted was a license plate I had to make in high school. It was fun but it did not turn out very well. I learned with PPG paint,I have goobered up a couple things [sm=oopssign.gif], but I learned from those. I still do it since I enjoy it wether its my own piece or somebody elses. I just love painting, especially when I get to tape n paint flamesetcwith different colors, the kustom stuff is fun. It kinda helps that my cousin restores cars too.
What is your story in a nut shell or two?
Katzmans Caddy
12-20-2008, 07:47 PM
Back in 76 or so I did a rear quarter panel on my sister's 73 Astre, a Canadian Pontiac re-trimmed Vega. I went to an auto body supply to get the paint and the local parts store for Bondo. Overall it was ok, the paint was a good match but it was so orange peeled it was not funny. It never had the same lustre as the rest of the car either.
Stealth
12-20-2008, 08:45 PM
ORIGINAL: Big5DoubleZero
What was your first paint job like? Was it Big? Small? or just in the middle? Difficult? Easy? A big mess? It could be anything, for instance, a motorcycle fender, gas tankor aflat piece of steel.
I remember the first thing I painted was a license plate I had to make in high school. It was fun but it did not turn out very well. I learned with PPG paint,I have goobered up a couple things [sm=oopssign.gif], but I learned from those. I still do it since I enjoy it wether its my own piece or somebody elses. I just love painting, especially when I get to tape n paint flamesetcwith different colors, the kustom stuff is fun. It kinda helps that my cousin restores cars too.
What is your story in a nut shell or two?
A camo on a F-4 Phantom
easy to do, impossible to screw up .. and at the end, looked darn good.
What was your first paint job like? Was it Big? Small? or just in the middle? Difficult? Easy? A big mess? It could be anything, for instance, a motorcycle fender, gas tankor aflat piece of steel.
I remember the first thing I painted was a license plate I had to make in high school. It was fun but it did not turn out very well. I learned with PPG paint,I have goobered up a couple things [sm=oopssign.gif], but I learned from those. I still do it since I enjoy it wether its my own piece or somebody elses. I just love painting, especially when I get to tape n paint flamesetcwith different colors, the kustom stuff is fun. It kinda helps that my cousin restores cars too.
What is your story in a nut shell or two?
A camo on a F-4 Phantom
easy to do, impossible to screw up .. and at the end, looked darn good.
Does painting brothers and sisters count? ... I started by painting models and toy cars, I knew nothing of masking or prep. Runs meant needs more paint, by the time I got to full size anything I had learned a lot, except why the color on the cap of the spray can will match your car but the paint within it wont.....
Big5DoubleZero
12-21-2008, 11:12 AM
Yeah if it were your sisters or brothers or friendsetc. anything you painted being your own thing or another persons.
1989 fleetwood
12-21-2008, 01:31 PM
i painted my 89 lfeetwood about2 year ago. it didnt turn out notas good as i had hoped. The car was orginally grey and i was going to repaint it grey but for some reason it turned out black. i used inron paint. I borrowed my dads old binks #7 paint gun and a 35 year old air compressor. I started it one early morning on my driveway before my neigbhoors woke up. The darn compressor started to shoot out water. I got all sorts of filters and had to sand it down 2 more times. It had a bad oarnge peel effect. But i was 17 years old and had no idea how to paint a car, so i guess it could of turned out worse. i always wanted a black car anyway.
Stealth
01-23-2009, 12:54 AM
ORIGINAL: Katzmans Caddy
ORIGINAL: Stealth
ORIGINAL: Big5DoubleZero
What was your first paint job like? Was it Big? Small? or just in the middle? Difficult? Easy? A big mess? It could be anything, for instance, a motorcycle fender, gas tankor aflat piece of steel.
I remember the first thing I painted was a license plate I had to make in high school. It was fun but it did not turn out very well. I learned with PPG paint,I have goobered up a couple things [sm=oopssign.gif], but I learned from those. I still do it since I enjoy it wether its my own piece or somebody elses. I just love painting, especially when I get to tape n paint flamesetcwith different colors, the kustom stuff is fun. It kinda helps that my cousin restores cars too.
What is your story in a nut shell or two?
A camo on a F-4 Phantom
easy to do, impossible to screw up .. and at the end, looked darn good.