Custom Painted Fire Hydrant
A custom painted and restored Fire Hydrant that had served its time.
A custom painted and restored Fire Hydrant that had served its time.
A three-stage paint, commonly referred to as a tri-coat, is a color that requires two separate basecoat application steps. For instance, a three-stage white would require the application of a solid white first, once dry, a transparent pearl coat is applied over top to give the color a sparkling effect. This transparent pearl coat is…
A common trend in color matching from OEM is the use of translucent colors. Translucent colors are made up of both the color of the undercoat and a transparent color overtop of it. Commonly, you will use a shade of grey first as either a primer or basecoat, followed by the transparent color coating of your…
A 1968 Camaro from Ajax Ontario, this car was about a year in the making and painted with the new synergy green from the new Camaro. The paint used on it was from BASF, RM Onyx HD waterborne basecoat and Glasuirt Low-Voc Clearcoat. The Car Started off with a fair amount of rust…
Check out this awesome custom painted Dragon Ball Z car by Keegan Defrance!
Getting a clean paint job can be a challenge for refinish technicians, and while modern equipment and a well-maintained paint booth can certainly help, they are not a guarantee of a clean result. One common source of dirt nibs in paint jobs is neglect of the airline, which can wear and accumulate dust and overspray…
Product failures can be a frustrating and costly occurrence in any repair shop and most technicians have already created a blacklist of products that they will never use again. The unfortunate reality is that in the majority of these instances, the failure was because of something we did wrong and not the product itself….