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DxDiag
29-08-2013, 04:05 PM
Hi guys & Gals, I've always loved matte paints,i used to have the magna green color as many of you have seen.

i am open on any ideas, i know most people tell me it's personal opinion but i believe having others opinions can help you enjoy your hard work even greater.

In this thread i would enjoy reponses in any matter for example, "its looks great", or "i dont like the way the trim is" etc each to there own.

I will be uploading the pictures of the complete car exterior when i've finished painting the trims. feel free to request day or night picture

Front ~Day Time~:
http://i43.tinypic.com/rcpuvp.jpg


Rear ~Night time~:
http://i40.tinypic.com/2hdxuh5.jpg

http://i39.tinypic.com/2cr93s6.jpg

DxDiag
29-08-2013, 04:06 PM
Dunno why pictures are so massive :/

GQshorty
29-08-2013, 04:19 PM
Not bad man, did you spray the car yourself? what did you use? I would spray the pipes and support etc behind the front bar as well as the trailer plug black

DxDiag
29-08-2013, 04:32 PM
Not bad man, did you spray the car yourself? what did you use? I would spray the pipes and support etc behind the front bar as well as the trailer plug black

i spayed it my self with pressure packs to reduce over spray because i dont know any one with a booth, Exhaust Tips are chrome, the muffler i have installed only has one home so i got the tips haha. Do you mean the radiator?, the goose neck is black and the trailer plug being black would look good thanks for that.

GQshorty
29-08-2013, 04:51 PM
Did you use acryclic pressure pack? A sand and polish will help shine up the white. Yeah the radiator the white makes it look nasty

DxDiag
30-08-2013, 04:33 AM
Did you use acryclic pressure pack? A sand and polish will help shine up the white. Yeah the radiator the white makes it look nasty

its a matte paint. Nasty meaning good or bad? Haha

GQshorty
30-08-2013, 05:00 AM
Lol nasty as in looks like a rush job and couldn't be bothered masking up

MadMax
30-08-2013, 09:58 AM
Lol nasty as in looks like a rush job and couldn't be bothered masking up

Yep. Pipe work behind bumper comes blacked out from factory. Some newspaper behind the bumper openings would have helped keep them black. Now if he wants to get it back to black, the bumper needs to come off.
Basic rule number 1 of spray painting: Mask off everything you DON'T want to paint!

Acrylic goes off rather quickly, so the spray lines visible from different levels of matte/gloss should fade, hopefully.

Not bad for a first timer though. Live and learn.

GTVi
30-08-2013, 11:08 AM
Very good effort for first time. Did you wet sand the "white"? Let it cure for a while before you attack it with the buffer.

DxDiag
30-08-2013, 04:04 PM
Yep. Pipe work behind bumper comes blacked out from factory. Some newspaper behind the bumper openings would have helped keep them black. Now if he wants to get it back to black, the bumper needs to come off.
Basic rule number 1 of spray painting: Mask off everything you DON'T want to paint!

Acrylic goes off rather quickly, so the spray lines visible from different levels of matte/gloss should fade, hopefully.

Not bad for a first timer though. Live and learn.

i purposely painted the piping. i guess it could have looked better but i just wanted a omplete white im yet to piant the trim black... thanks for the compliment.

one mistake i did was run out of masking tape and a mate sprayed the door trims the upperpart thats spose to be black and the rubbers but i guess oer time the rubbers will turn back to black i kinda like the window border white it just makes it look like a fresh new look

DxDiag
30-08-2013, 04:06 PM
Very good effort for first time. Did you wet sand the "white"? Let it cure for a while before you attack it with the buffer.

the stock color of the car is the gloss green, all panels started fading & some tosser in the neighborhood soaked every everyones car with paint stripper -.-

DxDiag
30-08-2013, 04:09 PM
Lol nasty as in looks like a rush job and couldn't be bothered masking up

i kinda like it i was thinking about putting a white LED strip there