Anatomy of a flaked and kandied roof....

Here are some progress pics of the roof on a 63 Impala that I just flaked and shot kandies at. This car may be a bit too lowrider for this board, so if it is feel free to delete this post.

Here's the car when I started...


And now the roof is in silver metallic....


And then I shot silver metalflakes at it....



Then buried the flakes in clear...



Wetsanded down and recleared...



Wetsanded again and started to tape...


A little more taping...


Starting to lay some kandy down...



More kandies...



And finally all the color is on...




After the first round of clear...




Now I just have to wetsand it out and reclear it today. I'll post more pics when it's all finished and polished out.

 

Wow!!!!!!!!! amazing job.

 

Nice job, most people have no concept of how much work just doing a roof is.

 

Beauuuuutiful work!! I like your blog too-you are doing some amazing stuff.
Thank you for sharing and stop by anytime with more.

 

Great work man, keep it up. How long did it take to lay all of the fine line on the roof before you started to add color?

 

Sick...I can respect the time and labor involved in doing this..really makes the top pop

 

Wow! Great work, how many hours did you put in?

 

That is amazing! Nice design too. Really cool.

 

looks awesome.
good job

 

WOW! What a gorgous car to being with & you did a killer job on the roof. Really looking forward to seeing it all done!

 

Thanks guys. I'm not really sure how many hours I have in it, or how long it took to tape. I think I have around 50hrs in it so far and around 7-8 hrs to tape it up.

 

Looks good ..........What brand of paint did you use?

 

I use all House of Kolor materials.

 

Awesome work!!

 

Jerry, Love that paint job ! Really like the splashes of color - freak drops I think they were called. Over all real nice job.

 

You got more time in that roof than I have in painting my entire car!

Great work.

 

Incredible! I would love to have 1/100th of the talent it took to do that.

 

Cool beans man.

 

hmmm... wonder whos car that is????

cant wait to pick it up man...

AMAZING WORK!!! fits right in with my redone tru spokes and pesco pumps...

this is the man to go to if you need ANY work guys... no one can spray like jayme

 

Unbelievable job. Can't wait to see it outside in the sun!

 

GET OUTTA HERE WITH THIS!!! That looks GREAT! Unbelievable work, Amigo!!! You should be very proud.

 

Man that's awesome JR. The tape work alone is a work of art. I think it wold be easy to get confused and put the wrong color in the wrong place.



Doc.

 

way cool!! and just an awesome job, thanks for sharing.

 

Freaking great job.

gonna be bad ass Todd

 

Wow Todd. I knew it was your car in the first picture. That roof takes that car from a cool Impala to a bad ass ride. Bet you're stoked.

 

Damn good job.I've sprayed some flake and a a good bit of candy and anybody that hasn't done it has no idea of the amount of work involved.Just taping and masking takes a lot of time.You really nailed it though.Looks great.

 

WOW! Very Nice!! Makes me want to do mine now! I'm not sure that I have the patience though.

 

Im not really a fan of lowriders, but damn that is a lot of work and an amazing result!

I agree with Doc... you nailed the colors. Nothing looks out of place

 

Wow Jerry!! These photos belongs in the friday art threa!! It's pure art in my eyes...and I ain't talking about those crazy art cars that retired hippies builds