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Drives: 2010 Inferno Orange Camaro SS/RS

Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Las Vegas, NV Posts: 540 Drives: 2010 Inferno Orange Camaro SS/RS

It's all in the details. Well I needed probably another 2 weeks There were dimples on dings on dents! I had to go through like 5 gallons of body filler, mostly on hood and front end. My rear end is the $hit! Haha. Heres when I went back and fixed my old welds and lined things up. Ever block sanded an entire car? I sure never had, and boy does it suck! Did entire car in 80 grit then 320. Primered it and did 320 again! So much so I used up all the 320 grit. Well I plumb ran out of time, Vegas gets hot and I couldnt wait till fall to paint so hereeeeee we go!



I knew this might be the only car I ever painted, so I wanted to make it awesome, TOXCESS even Candy paint jobs are simply the most epic! They are done by painting a base metallic silver and then a transparent coat or tint coat over that and finally clearing. This means every bit of the candy coat has to be perfect, welllll this was my first paint job and that was soooooo not happening. I decided I could get a similar effect using metal flake, and I was right I always wanted a deep red Camaro so I went with Firethorn Red Pearl which looks kinda like Candy Apple red. To get the shimmer/sparkle effect I would spray the candy apple red flake over it and clear it. I used micro flake which is like .004 of an inch and knocks down real nice under clear and still has a big flake look. For the stripes I wanted something even a little more TOXCESS so I mixed black metallic flake 2 to 1 with silver rainbow. Yup, RAINBOW!



But Im getting ahead of myself, first I gotta take care of the door jams. Here I spent one entire day masking off and I still didnt get enough painted. Did them without the sparkle as the sun rarely hits inside the jams. Had to do a solid black between the windows as Ford did with a vinyl decal to keep windows looking dark. Had to mask over jams to do outside, yay :/ But we were making progress. Strangely I did both the hood and trunk in black. Why? Well the hood I did black because my old 233k engine tends to throw a little oil. The trunk cause I already did the hood black :P Even though I had what looked like a car, it was rough. Panels werent perfect and things didnt line up quite right. How about a month of body work!Well I needed probably another 2 weeksThere were dimples on dings on dents! I had to go through like 5 gallons of body filler, mostly on hood and front end. My rear end is the $hit! Haha. Heres when I went back and fixed my old welds and lined things up. Ever block sanded an entire car? I sure never had, and boy does it suck! Did entire car in 80 grit then 320. Primered it and did 320 again! So much so I used up all the 320 grit. Well I plumb ran out of time, Vegas gets hot and I couldnt wait till fall to paint so hereeeeee we go!I knew this might be the only car I ever painted, so I wanted to make it awesome, TOXCESS evenCandy paint jobs are simply the most epic! They are done by painting a base metallic silver and then a transparent coat or tint coat over that and finally clearing. This means every bit of the candy coat has to be perfect, welllll this was my first paint job and that was soooooo not happening. I decided I could get a similar effect using metal flake, and I was rightI always wanted a deep red Camaro so I went with Firethorn Red Pearl which looks kinda like Candy Apple red. To get the shimmer/sparkle effect I would spray the candy apple red flake over it and clear it. I used micro flake which is like .004 of an inch and knocks down real nice under clear and still has a big flake look. For the stripes I wanted something even a little more TOXCESS so I mixed black metallic flake 2 to 1 with silver rainbow. Yup, RAINBOW!But Im getting ahead of myself, first I gotta take care of the door jams. Here I spent one entire day masking off and I still didnt get enough painted. Did them without the sparkle as the sun rarely hits inside the jams. Had to do a solid black between the windows as Ford did with a vinyl decal to keep windows looking dark. Had to mask over jams to do outside, yay :/ But we were making progress. Strangely I did both the hood and trunk in black. Why? Well the hood I did black because my old 233k engine tends to throw a little oil. The trunk cause I already did the hood black :P Attached Images





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