Spray Paint / Blending Help
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Hi Guys
I've got a bit of a re-occuring when I'm doing localised repairs to my car's paint using spray cans. Basically I'm really struggling to avoid weird blend lines.
The car is Royal blue and I've followed a few youtube guides and they've all recommended various ways to avoid hard blend lines. The two I've tried are the masking paper secured from behind them folded back on itself; and masking tape itself rolled back, both to provide a curve to graduate how much of the paint is applied - thus blending into the existing paint.
My problem is when i do this, instead of getting royal blue fading into a slightly different royal blue. I get royal blue getting increasingly lighter and having an almost white edge. If anything its drawing attention to the join.
I don't have much experience spraying, inevitability it's my fault but i'm just not sure what i'm doing wrong. It might be impossible to say looking at photos but I was hoping someone might recognise what I'm doing wrong just from the results.
Thanks in advance.
Disclaimer: I appreciate the "best" answer is to take it to a professional, but the car isn't really worth the costs and i took on this project to learn with. I'm happy to live with it not being a 5 star paint job but having such apparent marks seems like something I should be able to avoid even with basic tools.
I've got a bit of a re-occuring when I'm doing localised repairs to my car's paint using spray cans. Basically I'm really struggling to avoid weird blend lines.
The car is Royal blue and I've followed a few youtube guides and they've all recommended various ways to avoid hard blend lines. The two I've tried are the masking paper secured from behind them folded back on itself; and masking tape itself rolled back, both to provide a curve to graduate how much of the paint is applied - thus blending into the existing paint.
My problem is when i do this, instead of getting royal blue fading into a slightly different royal blue. I get royal blue getting increasingly lighter and having an almost white edge. If anything its drawing attention to the join.
I don't have much experience spraying, inevitability it's my fault but i'm just not sure what i'm doing wrong. It might be impossible to say looking at photos but I was hoping someone might recognise what I'm doing wrong just from the results.
Thanks in advance.
Disclaimer: I appreciate the "best" answer is to take it to a professional, but the car isn't really worth the costs and i took on this project to learn with. I'm happy to live with it not being a 5 star paint job but having such apparent marks seems like something I should be able to avoid even with basic tools.
that wont ever blend in , god knows what you watched to make you do that
best bet is to key up a much larger area , mask off the whole panel like you was going to paint it all , mist the blue over the repair flicking away each stroke into the old paint so it looks even , then clear coat beyond the colour and disolve the edge with blending thinner
best bet is to key up a much larger area , mask off the whole panel like you was going to paint it all , mist the blue over the repair flicking away each stroke into the old paint so it looks even , then clear coat beyond the colour and disolve the edge with blending thinner
It was primarily this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4vusY2-rkQ
I appreciate its not going to be a invisible blend, but in video above and others they dont seem to get the white parts I'm getting.
In places i do seem to be able to avoid it for the most part [towards the bottom of the picture] but in the others i cant seem to avoid the line and there doesn't seem to anything i'm doing differently between the two areas.
I appreciate its not going to be a invisible blend, but in video above and others they dont seem to get the white parts I'm getting.
In places i do seem to be able to avoid it for the most part [towards the bottom of the picture] but in the others i cant seem to avoid the line and there doesn't seem to anything i'm doing differently between the two areas.
Edited by onloop on Saturday 13th June 20:39
Edited by onloop on Saturday 13th June 20:40
steveo3002 said:
that wont ever blend in , god knows what you watched to make you do that
best bet is to key up a much larger area , mask off the whole panel like you was going to paint it all , mist the blue over the repair flicking away each stroke into the old paint so it looks even , then clear coat beyond the colour and disolve the edge with blending thinner
^^^This.best bet is to key up a much larger area , mask off the whole panel like you was going to paint it all , mist the blue over the repair flicking away each stroke into the old paint so it looks even , then clear coat beyond the colour and disolve the edge with blending thinner
With very dark colours clearcoating the whole panel may be the best solution to avoid a noticeable edge which may appear as a rainbow effect or a thin dull line.
Did you get this sorted?
In this ChrisFix video, he has some issues with overspray of the clearcoat which dries on white. I wonder if that was your problem too? Or perhaps some dust from sanding got trapped behind the folded over tape - I've seen that mentioned in a different video by Ratchets & Wrenches.
In this ChrisFix video, he has some issues with overspray of the clearcoat which dries on white. I wonder if that was your problem too? Or perhaps some dust from sanding got trapped behind the folded over tape - I've seen that mentioned in a different video by Ratchets & Wrenches.
Ashamed to say I've not really tried...
I got bit pee'd off with it and its was at least waterproof so I left it and went back to the mechanical parts while i got a bit of enthusiasm back. I will have to come back to it soon though.
I did try sanding the marks and they would't come off, it seems to be in the base coat and the clear is "protecting" it.
Im intending on masking a larger area and trying to blend it all in by "flicking" it a touch, we'll see how i get on. I'll be sure to report back.
I got bit pee'd off with it and its was at least waterproof so I left it and went back to the mechanical parts while i got a bit of enthusiasm back. I will have to come back to it soon though.
I did try sanding the marks and they would't come off, it seems to be in the base coat and the clear is "protecting" it.
Im intending on masking a larger area and trying to blend it all in by "flicking" it a touch, we'll see how i get on. I'll be sure to report back.
The problem might be that you need to ‘spread’ the repair area as you work through primer, base coat etc to provide suitable coverage. I have seen a few cases like this where the pale line is primer and you can’t sand / polish it away as the top coats do not extend far enough.
Hope that helps and makes sense!
Hope that helps and makes sense!
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