If it seems thinner in the middle, thicker on the outsides of the fan then it could be the spray gun or you might just need to clean it. Just do your test spray, first hit it once, get your spray pattern, it’s usually like an oval-ish look, and then also give it a quick little spray and see how it looks. So a lot of cheap crap spray guns don’t have an even spray pattern so if you’re doing heavy metallics, single-stage, base coat, or clear coat, just make sure you spray a piece of paper on your wall or something just to see how your paint is laying out. A number one cause of tiger striping is not keeping a tight spray pattern, not crisscrossing like that, or having a crappy spray gun where your material is coming out heavier in the middle or heavier on the sides with not enough in the middle. I always like criss-cross it to avoid tiger striping. And if you have a heavy metallic just make sure that you’re spraying your 50% overlay or you could go as much as 60% overlay, a little bit tighter spray widths. QUESTION: Should metallic paint be applied wet like solid paint or like a dry spray? Always wet no matter what paint you’re painting, you got to paint wet. You got more leeway, you don’t have to get that fine and be so tedious with your prep work because single-stage is like pouring on so thick. So you don’t have to get as fine with preparation if you’re doing single-stage just keep that in mind. If you really don’t care and you’re doing a single-stage, you can go a little coarser grit because single-stage is a thick paint and it’ll hide up to 360 sand scratches or even 320. If you want a really nice glossy paint job, go with like a 400 grit when you sand it. When you sand it, I would kind of block it out with like a 400 but it depends on what type of finish you want. And then you could sand that and spray right over it, whatever topcoat you’re going to put on it. QUESTION: Respraying my metal after-market roof rack, what primer or coating would be best for this? If you’re spraying over bare metal, you could use a DTM primer which is direct to metal primer. Put a fresh coat of base on it and then put your pearl on. If you’re going to be doing your black base coat and waiting a week I would scuff it up with like 800 grit and then re-base it. You have about a 24-hour window, give or take. Unless you got a lot of dust in an area or you got runs, that’s when you would kind of sand block it out, re-base it black a little, fix it right and then put your pearl on top. So if you did your black base and you’re putting your pearl on the same day you don’t have to sand. Do you think I need to sand all the way down and respray the base black coat or can I just respray the purple pearl? If you’re doing all of that in one paint job, you don’t have to sand anything. QUESTION: I have to respray a car that is a deep lilac pearl that requires a black base coat. Get Free Auto Body Training Guides and Videos here and don’t forget to LIKE and SUBSCRIBE to my YT channel. Stay tuned for new videos coming out. In this blog post, we’ll go over the basics of car paint so you can get the job done right. Whether you’re repainting your car or doing a touch-up, color matching is key, and metallic paint can give your car an extra layer of flair. When it comes to car painting, there are a lot of things that go into it.
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