Hey guys ... im 15 years old , You prbbly don't rememebr me but i posted my first welds b4 now we did mini fender project in school... Here it is:

1: Fabrication ( Welding, cutting all the pieces out, putting together everything, grinding)
2: Straightening - teacher hammered it real bad and made holes in it ... had to do fix up the holes and do some shrinking of the metal with oxy-acetylene welder after straightened everything with hammer and dolly
3: Put plastic filler on and work it down till its really smooth (36,80,120,400 grit sanding papers)
4: Primer/wet sanding
5: Base color( about 5-7 coats )
6: gold stripes ( 3 coats)
7: clear coat (4 coats)




My inspiration car in the background


Please feel free to comment or ask q's thx for looking

 

Looks good. I wish I was doing this kind of stuff when I was 15.

 

awsome man! w00t for youngens i signed up here when I was 14 right after I bought my first honda

 

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^^^^ what he said

 

thx guys... pics got kind of blury because i resized them like 3 times smaller , project came out ok i was really pissed when one day came to school and found my whole projetc ruined... some f****r scratched it real bad and i already had my first coat on ... so i had to sand it again and i didnt come out as well as b4 because we wree runin short on plastic filelr and time ... im happy because finished it faster than anybody else and got one of the highest grades in the class ,,, thx for the comments guys

 

Stick with it man, the learning experience is irreplaceable.

 

was your teacher all perma-fried from the paint fumes, hahaha

 

Looks like you did a good job man. you got an A

 

I'm with the others, wish I had classes like this available.

My only comment would be to keep track of when you mask and the lines it can leave. It looks like you got some overlapping on the masking of the stripes at the edges. (this isn't coming from car paint work experience... only from a normal art background)

 

looks awesome, too bad you didnt take pics of how mangled it was before you fixed it up,

 

it looks Pretty good.
On part of the stripes it looks like you should have pulled the Tape sooner, so it didnt "tear" the base paint.
other than that

 

thx for comments guys .. yeah i wish i would have taken the pics how it looked when it was smashed with the hammer ... i really loved that class but i cant fit it in next semester so ill take it junior year its gonan be autobody 2 and we r gonna be fixing real hood, fender or door ... im takin auto mechanics(engine, suspension, transmission...) next semester ...

 

damn i need to goto your school i have to drive 20min to get to my VoTech school for auto tech... oh well it got me a job at honda so I can't complain

 

hah thats exact same stuff we do in my highschool autobody class. its fun stuff and really beats doing classwork.. and i have it for 5th and 6th period nice work

 

damn, i wish my highschool would've had atleast shop class... it didn't have anything, so now im trying to learn on my own haha

 

JDMtype Eg6 &gt;&gt;&gt; what else do you do in ur autobody class? we did different types of welds before... here is the link: https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1434621

 

we do bascially everything u mentioned but when we paint we only do one coat.. Right now we're repairing the front end of a buick and i just basically had to take off the radiator and the front core support by drilling in the welds and using an air chisle to pry it apart..
He's also teaching us how to use the frame puller but i kinda stay away from that cuz it looks like an accident waiting to happen while using it.. hah
As far as welding.. im not to great at it but im learning/practicing. After winter break im going to bring my car to class so i can weld my exhaust piping due to it falling off from fucced up welds by a muffler shop..

My class is kinda kick back.. A lot of people usually just mess around the whole time and smoke on the side of the shop because my teacher is very lenient and my school security & police dont give a.... . He doesnt even give us tests or any kind of grading. At the end of the semester we right down what grade we deserve and he gives it to us hah. But its very informative class and ive learned some useful things. But i think my class/school would be better if it had way more dicipline.. everyday there are literally fights during the day.. and after school there are always people smoking in the parking lot.. and not just cigarettes hah..

 

same here man... alot of people just mess around, some people just go outside... there is only couple of us who r willing to do soemthing ... but i like that class , lot of things u learn and no stress