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great work Scully

Painted in my basement with DuPont's Omni line, base/clear. I also used a $12 Harbor Freight gun(because I forgot my $30 HF gun at work ). It's a black base, green pearl in clear, then straight clear, so all the color you see is the pearl.

Very nice, how much does that tank hold - more than 17 litres??

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17 liters exactly. It looks big but there is alot of open space under it. I may modify it to hold more at some point to get some more range out if it.

Well I decided to go for it after reading this post- here's my first attempt at a DYI paint job-





I bought some flat black single stage to uses for stripes, but not sure I'm going to use it. Still need to wet sand and polish the clear- has a little orange peel.
But is was fun, and I'm pretty excited about the color- exactly what I wanted from a 2 stage.

Nice sparkles

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Greg

Looks very good Greg' really like the color.
How about some of the details like paint brand and type, application, etc.

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Thanks Jim.

Sure, I used KemFx Custom paint- from www.http://www.thecoatingstore.com/

Really reasonable prices- Kembase "red/gold" metallic basecoat/clearcoat- 1.5 quart urethane kit (for motorcycles)- $74 bucks for paint, reducer, activator.
Also the 2K HS Urethane Primer Surfacer- 1.5 quart- $30
Havent used it yet, but got the KemPhlats Hot Rod Black Urethane 1.5 Quart- $32 for the stripes if I decided to.

More than enough paint too, I probably have enough to do it twice.

Used a cheap HF HVLP gun/craftsman 25gal compressor, set up a makeshift paint booth in the garage made of plastic sheathing and PVC pipe for 10x10 frame- lots of duct tape, a furnace filter/ventcap, and my shopvac to vent it.





I really had a blast!

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Greg

Looks fantastic

Thanks Jeff-

Yours as well- I like the idea of a solid base/color flake mid coat- Looks like the color of my dodge magnum...very subtle.

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Greg

hey greg you did it then,
the gold turned out fab,
i love the dexter style kill room/paint booth.
are you still floating from the fumes.
what would you charge to do a repaint of my suzi tins .

i have the h1 rebuild to a rolling frame now.
did you get your clocks back together.
nice job.mark

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