Remember cobwebbing, covered in another thread here. Blow dots, or freak dots. Lace, smoke, metal flake, candy, and others that I missed. Let's get all of these in one thread. Tell how it was done with the old paint and how to do it now with the new paint. We have enough old painters to explain the old ways, and enough young painters that know how to do it with the new paints. So please share.
To begin, old wood carriages were brushed on. Then when dry, they were kerosene rubbed all night long. As heard from the horses mouth.
Will be following along. Not sure I can add much other than some of the easy stuff like flames, scallops, panel jobs, etc. I worked for a couple guys that taught me lots of custom techniques, but most of it would be 70’s through 90’s custom paint stuff and not necessarily considered traditional. I do plan to try some things I haven’t ever done soon on my sons 60’s inspired 63 C10 build, so look forward to anything I can learn.
In my book, all of this custom painting tricks are for those vehicles and vehicle owners who own a close to stock looking vehicle, maybe lowered, chrome wheels, door handles removed, fender skirts, ect. On vehicles were there is some to a lot of sheet metal modifications these trick up paint jobs just take away from the finish product. I am not against these paint tricks but everything has its place.
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