Hi all, been having a look through this forum looking at various photos that have been posted & decided to post a few of my own from a few years back when I had my own bodyshop.
I painted a sunbeam tiger for a bloke, as you can see from the photos to say " bodywork needs attention " would have been the understatement of the year
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most of the paint had allready been stripped off along with all the filler from previous work which mean't a lot of the original shape had been lost, despite looking so bad there was actually very little rust in it as new sections of wing had been welded in - all I had to do was flat nearly everything back to metal, filler over the welding & get the original shape of the panels back ( easier said then done ).
The car then had about 4 coats of two pack primer, left to dry for a number of days then another lot of work flatting the primer down ready for basecoat.
The silver was then applied , left to dry & measured / lined out & masked up.
The blue was then applied then the silver was unmasked & then the whole car was 2 pack laquered.
As easy as that
This car must have taken over 160 hours to complete
and about 10 tubs of filler.
The silver stripes were a real pain in the ar*e to do.
Ok have a look at the pictures & guess how much I charged him ( you wont believe it )
Yup - it's a dog
Bare metal
You can't have too much filler
Looks better in primer
Painted & looking good
another one painted
outside
One more
I painted a sunbeam tiger for a bloke, as you can see from the photos to say " bodywork needs attention " would have been the understatement of the year
.most of the paint had allready been stripped off along with all the filler from previous work which mean't a lot of the original shape had been lost, despite looking so bad there was actually very little rust in it as new sections of wing had been welded in - all I had to do was flat nearly everything back to metal, filler over the welding & get the original shape of the panels back ( easier said then done ).
The car then had about 4 coats of two pack primer, left to dry for a number of days then another lot of work flatting the primer down ready for basecoat.
The silver was then applied , left to dry & measured / lined out & masked up.
The blue was then applied then the silver was unmasked & then the whole car was 2 pack laquered.
As easy as that
This car must have taken over 160 hours to complete
and about 10 tubs of filler.The silver stripes were a real pain in the ar*e to do.
Ok have a look at the pictures & guess how much I charged him ( you wont believe it )
Yup - it's a dog
Bare metal
You can't have too much filler
Looks better in primer
Painted & looking good
another one painted
outside
One more
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