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Monthly Archives: June 2024

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8 06, 2024

Paint day: spraying sealer, metallic base coat and clear coat

By |2024-09-28T00:19:09-05:00June 8th, 2024|68' Firebird project|0 Comments

Finally-- I got around to painting the car today. I sprayed it with a sealer first, as shown in the below photos. The sealer seemed to spray nicely. I don’t know what I was thinking with the Grey sealer color selection though since it should match closer to the final base coat color which is a metallic gunmetal grey. I [...]

7 06, 2024

Final sanding of primer and prep for painting day

By |2024-09-28T00:24:49-05:00June 7th, 2024|68' Firebird project|0 Comments

Over the past week I spent a lot of time sanding out the second spray of primer coats. I sprayed it with the same old primer that we had left over because I was hoping the rough spray surface was due to factors other than age. Unfortunately it sprayed rough again. Since I had to sand a lot smooth, I [...]