Getting some progress done and experiencing with some of my “Mad Science” patina Ideas! I think it’s gonna work I just was too impatient and the paint started peel/scrape off a little bit but it’s good, because I can see what the primer looks like underneath and it does look just like. The old black lacquer paint! With out all the cracks!!! Gonna let it dry for a week then sand and polish again to see if its gonna work! I know unorthodox practices! But its my car Dammit! Happy New Year!
My madness is working! I’m achieving that hand rubbed over 80 years lacquer not quite shiny scratched look! Without all the rusty flake checks peeling off! It doesn’t look like fake patina at all because it’s really the same thing except for I’m using an enamel! But I am hand buffing it which sucks but it really looks like an hand rub old paint job but the even low speed buffer wants to cut in to it I know a lot of you are paint experts and are probably biting your tongue right now but…..oh well!!!!! When I’m done with this, nobody’s gonna ever tell that it is actually rustoleum spray paint they’re gonna think it’s an old original lacquer paint job!!!
@33Doll...Happy New Year..looks great to me...grit levels and buffing all play a part... I'm not sure if you were following @Nailhead Jason's Sedan build but he was patching in old with new with dramatic results...It might be worth a visit to pick up some tricks to ad to your arsenal of techniques to give passable finishes on low dollar budgets...I noticed you posting in his Thread so I suspect you may have already given it a look...anyways the link below is around where he was paint and buffing... https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...39-back-to-life.1018747/page-13#post-13535974
Happy New Year to you Stogy! Then I wish you could see this little bit I did in person it looks just like an old paint job that’s been rubbed and scratched and then rubbed and then polished over the years. You know how you can tell fake patina? this doesn’t look like that at all
Starting off the New Year in style I say...I can see from here that its going to be a dramatic year indeed and nothing like a big positive to lift the spirit...it really looks awesome...is that blue or black...I'm not very good with colors...
I thought he traded it in for a Reproduction Steel one looking at those last group of pics... Definately not a rust belter and if it is it had more love than the average one that's for sure...that by no means is to say there's still not a huge amount of work in righting the 80 year old battle scars...
Yeah, you can see the difference and I'm well aware how difficult scratches and scrapes in steel are to make disappear... Aluminum it's not...
Going along Slowly… but Steadily! I hate sanding!!! I globbed it on funky, because its to hard to squeegee the smaller, curvy areas! I basically used my fingers! More sanding!! But Oh-Well!!
Thanks Guys! Been looking at back pictures, and in March, it will be 2 years since starting the Metal work! ….. not bad for Covid…two surgeries …my mom dying….and trying to work on my other cars…and work full-time…and….being on call most of the time also! WHEW!!! OH!!! and I forgot about half rebuilding My Late Friends 69 Bronco… and selling it for His Widow! Dang! Ive been busy!!!
A little more done today got my sealing done inside the crevices, and painted most of the floor on the bottom.
My friend told me about this rustoleum turbo cans!!! Holy crap! It’s like having your own spray booth except for it twice as thick!! I screwed up though and didn’t tarp the floor or wet it the wife is pissed!!! I got to figure out how to get it off!! (The doll looks good though!) The more coats I put on the more orange peel though so I’m gonna have to do a lot of color-Wet sanding and buffing!
Looks really good! Best bet on the floor might be just painting it. I did the same thing to my folks garage about 30 years ago one time and we tried all kinds of ways to get the paint off. I spent hours with a sander that we rented and it turned out “ok”. Would have been quicker and easier to just use some floor paint.
Those turbo cans are the bomb man!!! They work just like a spraygun I should’ve built a temporary booth, and put plastic everywhere, but I just put it on the walls and covered my stuff. thank God, but the rest of the garage!!! It even got some overspray way in the back, but right around the car…. man!!!
That’s what my brother said! Should just paint it with that grey coating stuff. Gonna try scrubbing it with a few decreasers first
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