basically flawless haha I had my old mustang hit in a accident(semi truck turned into my quarter panel going 5 miles an hour....I was stopped in a turn lane) that had the dark blue metallic paint they used to have. The body shop my insurance took it to blended the repairs, and I am in no way a master painter or anything but I could not even see they redid it minus the non existent clear coat scratches in that section haha.

 

oh ok, I thought you painted- i bet the guy who painted it can find a few flaws- there is always a little something somewhere but thats what makes a good painter- someone who always wants to get better and better no matter how old they are and how long they been doing it

 

as a hobby but that is the extent of it, im sure a trained eye could have found some flaws with it but i could not tell haha.

 

If you are just starting out then yes, but a professional can do that easily. It is done with quarter panels most commonly on cars. You can't use regular clear, you have to use blending clear and back-tape the area. It might look bad at first but you always want to wet sand Blends. Blending single stage is a different subject all together.

 

I know all about open blends, I do them almost every day.

Im saying to use the word FLAWLESS, there is always a little something you think could be better

 

To the original poster. I've also experimented with painting. I learned through my recent experiences that taking on a complete paint job / whole car is a big task. You'd be better off trying an area at a time. The learning curve is steep and one variable being off could throw the paint job a muck. A section at a time would stop you from having to re-do the entire car if anything went wrong, which can be SUPER time consuming and expensive material wise. A perfect place to experiment, after say a junkyard part finally comes out right would be the underside of your hood, then engine compartment, etc, etc.

 

I'm still researching the subject but yea I reached that conclusion myself but do circumstances (totaled my daily)



this part of my build as well as everything else has taken a back seat for sometime. Not sure when ill get to official start build now so in the mean time ill just be gathering up materials. And finding connects in my area