color - GM medium grey metallic
3 coats of color
2 " thick " coats of clear

came out perfect , no runs or silicone particles

THIS WAS MY FIRST FuLL PAINT JOB AT SCHOOL, whats better... is doing it to your car :bouncy: yea thats me in pics.
right now its sittin in the paint booth to dry til tomorrow

i am sooo happy, i have a boner over this:D

 

Thats beautiful man!! Nice job dude!! that just made excited for when I have MY car Re-painted.

 

Looks good, looks like there is alot of trash in it though. I never understood why some people have a stand/work station in the booth that is supposed to be free of debris. Stuff like that makes for a dirty paintjob. Especially being at a school, they should have it alittle better than that. Overspray like crazy in the engine bay.

 

all the junk in the front are paint supplies, no body work done in booth ...

 

Nice!

 

A booth is only supposed to have a car in it. No trashcans or anything that will contaminate the paintjob. When I painted in class I would sweep the floors, blow the entire booth out from top to bottom and then mop it. We even had a brandnew 140K bowndraft system. If you want a clean paintjob you have to do that. Not knocking on your paintjob b/c it looks good for a first timer but next time take all the crap out of the booth and clean it good and you will be suprised how well the next car comes out.

 

Also were you using a DeVilbess plus gun? I use the same for my clear. Lays it down like glass. I use a Sata 3000 for the base though.

 

looking good man, im painting my EF hatch a similar color in the spring and im going to paint my trim a dark bronze soon after, should look baller!

 

yeah i know what you mean... if i could i would move all the junk out too but we use the table to make more paint when ever we run out ( ex- mix for the second coat )once the filter is on and doors are shut we DON'T open it ( so between the first coat of sealer to the last of clear i was in the booth for a good 3 hours . we also did a air blow and sweep clean of the floor , ceiling and clean the car thoroughly using "139 " and a tack rag to keep things clean, all the other stuff that you see are clean as well from dust particles . the car did come out really neat, it will look even better when i wet sand and buff it smooth :D
i guess you should also consider the shop being 35+ years at the school with slight improvements to the booth, i don't know what filteration we have but it "sucks" hard and we have have some descent filters

i am not trying to argue with you, i agree that with you 100+ % about how clean a booth should be

i just wanted to state the reason and didn't want to dis on my auto shop b/c how it operated

on the other note i will post pics as soon i out the car back together and the paint guns are the instructor's personal paint gun, i don't know what brand but he loves it .we use two guns , one for primer and sealer and the other color and clear

 

Great work man. Did you go to school for this?

 

nice . now paint mine car lol

 

the auto shop program is part of my high school , so i go as i learn ,best hands on learning

 

Not trying to kill ya boner but in the future wet down your floor and walls before you paint. Do not wet the ceiling. This will give the dust in the room something to stick to so its not blowing around and sticking in the paint as I see in the pics. And the mask job is lacking some. Has to be overspray in the engine bay. You even need to mask the underside of the bay off to prevent this from taking place.

See all this crap on the ground? Now imagine the billions of particles floating around in the air and landing in the nice sticky paint. Make sure there are no ledges in your masking paper that can hold dust and dried overspray. You always want to keep your masking paper tight.


There is always next time....lets see some before pics, just so we know you made it better and not worse...lol

Take care.

 

Dude that looks sooo nice. Any bodywork before paint?

So lucky your autoshop has a paint booth. Stupid west coast and low education budget.

 

yeah they spendin all the money on CARB REF bullshits and such...

but yeah, looks nice

and sorta welcome to custom painted hondas krew :p

mines a candy blue flake over black

 

looks like you did a good job for a first timer. thats a nice looking color.

 

yea good ****!!

 

here are some before pics, it was def. better than this \/
and there was a lot of body work to be done ...

 

like the color