Best method of blending metallic

[Edward Yemm]

must be doing something very wrong , grey scotch pad /1200 /1000 should be fine , people are doing all day every day , some even use 800

I can’t put my finger on it? All I can think is, it is because the clear is still new. It worked before. I watched a few videos. Some people are sanding the whole panel and some aren’t. All those that are sanding the whole panel are using that clear basecoat. That’s something I’m going to have to buy. The metallic is being sprayed on to something that is still wet. That is supposed to hide the dry edge that I got. Other people are sanding an area, spraying basecoat within the sanded area. Then clearing so it overlaps the sanded area on to the unsanded area. Then they use cans of blending thinners as one guy called it. Basically the Pro XL Pro blend can I have. I would be using that over the edge but the can is too many years old and it squirts out like a hose instead of spraying. I’ll be buying clear basecoat and maybe the blending thinners too. Everyone else is using these products that I didn’t use. So now I’ll buy something extra and try again. Thanks.

 

[steveo3002]

ive painted 1000s of cars and not needed blending products for the basecoat , yes ok maybe theyre usefull to have but you should be able to get good enough results without , i was painting new or nearly new cars at a dealer not some old wreck

need to get the basics right first

 

[Slowcoach]

I think you need to start again at the beginning and forget all these blending thinners etc. Keep it simple and just paint one panel at a time prime it all and then base coat and clear it. May take a bit longer but all the stuff you seem to think you need to buy there won’t be a big difference in material costs.

 

[Edward Yemm]

All right. I’ll try it again without any other products. I probably just have to lightly mist the basecoat out. Flick it out to the side a bit more than I did. From now on I’m going to have a pad of paper in the garage. I’m going to write down each step I took and when it goes right I’ll know exactly what it is that I did. Currently I’ll remember bits and not be 100% sure what it was exactly that I did on other bits. Thanks.

 

[Edward Yemm]

When I come to spray basecoat over that 2k clear I’m thinking I’ll use 1:1 basecoat to 2k thinner instead of 1:1 basecoat to basecoat thinner. See if that helps to avoid reactions. Some paint manufacturers like Jawel say you can use either basecoat thinner or 2K thinner with the basecoat. My manufacturer says basecoat thinner. I can mix a bit up and see what it looks like.

 

[Slowcoach]

Isn’t basecoat 2:1?

 

[Edward Yemm]

Isn’t basecoat 2:1?

Mine isn’t

 

[Edward Yemm]

I did add a bit more basecoat than thinners because I kept getting reactions. I thought I would reduce the thinner a bit incase that was adding to reactions. Someone mentioned something about the thinners causing reactions. I didn’t get as bad a reaction afterwards.

 

[steveo3002]

When I come to spray basecoat over that 2k clear I’m thinking I’ll use 1:1 basecoat to 2k thinner instead of 1:1 basecoat to basecoat thinner. See if that helps to avoid reactions. Some paint manufacturers like Jawel say you can use either basecoat thinner or 2K thinner with the basecoat. My manufacturer says basecoat thinner. I can mix a bit up and see what it looks like.

dont try and reinvent the wheel...use the thinners they reccomend at the rate they reccomend

thinners will attack an edge...simple as that , then if youve been painting over unkeyed paint then even more so as it can get under the edge

 

[Edward Yemm]

dont try and reinvent the wheel...use the thinners they reccomend at the rate they reccomend

thinners will attack an edge...simple as that , then if youve been painting over unkeyed paint then even more so as it can get under the edge

Ok. So it doesn’t matter what thinners. They will still attack the edge.

 

[Edward Yemm]

I’ll have another go at this panel some time. It’s back to reality for me now. Im already back to work after furlow. House insurance to search around for, a leaking inflatable hot tub to repair, lawn to cut a million times and various other jobs like decking, new shed etc. I’ve also got my daughter to entertain so probably some Lego Jurassic park again later on. It will be a while until I get around to this again. So if I don’t repost for a while, don’t hold your breath. Thanks.

 

[bert]

Why are you even trying blending 2 different areas on a panel? Metallic blending tiny areas is hard and you need a spot gun really as a std size gun puts too much paint on too fast.

If it was me I'd flatten the whole panel with 1k grit paper. Blend a bigger area and then clear coat the whole panel.

 

[Edward Yemm]

Why are you even trying blending 2 different areas on a panel? Metallic blending tiny areas is hard and you need a spot gun really as a std size gun puts too much paint on too fast.

If it was me I'd flatten the whole panel with 1k grit paper. Blend a bigger area and then clear coat the whole panel.

That’s the plan now. Thats how it’s done on half the videos I’ve watched. I’ll flick the Metallics right out so hopefully there won’t be an obvious hologram edge. I’ll sand with 1200 as that’s all I have currently. Finer paper for metallics so I saw in the videos, so I’ll use the 1200. I’ll make sure I keep wetting the paper so I don’t get any paint picked up in it that may be causing too deep of scratching? I’ll also use panel wipe over the whole of the sanded area, if I didn’t already?? I’ll sand back through the various layers to my first coat of clear, so I don’t have too high a level of paint.

 

[norsa]

This is some kind of a wind up. The game's up. Who is this really?

 

[Edward Yemm]

This is some kind of a wind up. The game's up. Who is this really?

Did I miss something?