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Again I have not figured out the posting so text first then pics as a reply to this. I did all the paint work myself and if anyone wants to know Ill share how and what materials used. KEY to paint =PREP & more PREP and attention to sanding smooth!! I learned some tricks for my redneck homemade paintbooth that actually worked very well. Good paint guns help also to spray a nicer pattern and assist overall coverage and layout from that. I did shoot all the color and then shot the shiny clear over all color including the black, then masked off all the yellow and shot the matte clear over the black after a light scuff. I toyed with several different ways of doing this including masking the yellow after clearing then trying to but the matte clear up to that edge. I really for a good seal of the base and less edges ect. decided to go the way I did wrong or right. Afterwords I am glad I did. There were many schools of thought for how to accomplish what I wanted as I talked to many professional painters then settled on how I did it. Hope you like my pictures. No guarantee they will be in order-sorry for that
YLWHRSE

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Excellent job Ylwhrse! I have to say the car looks really, really good. Not only that, I give you an A+++ on patience for setting up such a sterile paint booth. I know that it a ton of work to do. I attempted to do the same set-up but the outcome was not even close to yours. I can't wait to see more pictures as you put the car together.

Also, nice job on uploading the pictures...






WOW Ylwhrse - that's redneck to a whole new level!

Thanks for sharing your process with us. The results really speak volumes.

Very well done!
The paint looks very professional, How did you keep the overspray off, did you have an extraction fan? By the way I think magnums look cool on a 72 if your thinking of going with them..
(02-14-2015, 06:10 AM)noroz Wrote: [ -> ]The paint looks very professional, How did you keep the overspray off, did you have an extraction fan? By the way I think magnums look cool on a 72 if your thinking of going with them..
Thanks for all the kind compliments. Yes I set up an exhaust fan. I used a squirel cage style fan out of an old swamp cooler. Mounted it inside of a wood box enclosed that fit in one of my shop windows. Then sealed the paint booth around it. I had a buddy give me true paint booth filters but they didn't quite flow enough air and when I turned on my fan the booth started to implode- sucking down like a vaccum sealer. So I used regarding furnace filters but got the bright idea to buy a bunch of tax rags and put over those furnace filters on the outside. Between that and wetting tge floor of the booth and cleaning the walls between each stage ( using stiffer pads which worked amazingly well) my friend who is a professional custom painter and very good gave me the compliment that my paint job had much less dirt in the paint than what comes out of his professional boorh. Made me feel good about my attention to detail in keeping things clean really paid off. I can take a picture of my fan and post it if anyone is interested. I also used Sara paint guns exclusively except for primer. I will post primer pics next as I got ahead of myself.
YLWHRSE
(02-14-2015, 06:22 AM)ylwhrse Wrote: [ -> ]I can take a picture of my fan and post it if anyone is interested.

Absolutely!
Great Job...
[attachment=10719][attachment=10720][attachment=10721][attachment=10722]So here is a pic of the fan I used and the wood box I built around it. I just cut a hole in the plastic back wall and sealed it around the fan opening. When I painted I just open my window for the exhaust to blow out and opened a window on the other side of the shop. I did have to play with the heat in the shop to get it settled in right, but it all worked out very well.
YLWHRSE
Thank you.

Very well done.
Nice job with the ventilation...except from building an actual paint booth in your garage, I would say your set-up is as good as it gets!

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