36 Lincoln Zephyr extreme color sand

[Detail Werks]

Here is the follow up of a post I started last week. This car had the worst texture, sags, and runs in the paint I had ever seen.
Process:
3 Blocking steps with various Meguiars unigrit sand paper 1000-2500.
Machine sanded with Meguiars G110v2, 3 and 6 inch Meguiars Unigrit sanding discs 2000-3000
Cut with Meguiars G110V2, MF Cutting Disc, M101, and M105.
Polished with Meguiars G 110V2, MF Finishing Disc, and M205.
Waxed with Meguiars G 110V2, W9207 Foam Finishing Pad and Ultimate Paste Wax.


Before.Texture and paint run in rear quarter pannel.

After.

Beginning of block sanding.

More block sanding.

Side vent texture before.


After.

"A" pillar texture before.


After.

Hood before.

After.

Texture on top of hood before.

After.

Finish Photos.


Thanks for looking

[Marc08EX]

Re: 36 Lincoln Zephyr extreme color sand

Wow top notch work, Derek!!! The difference you made is mind blowing and out of this world!!! That's what you call a show car finish.

[CCC4me]

Re: 36 Lincoln Zephyr extreme color sand

Impressive work indeed! How many man hours did that take? Looks like someone could use a bit more practice with their spray gun.....

[Detail Werks]

Thanks guys, we logged more than 120 hours on that one.

[Detailing by M]

Re: 36 Lincoln Zephyr extreme color sand

Nice job!
I can't believe how bad that orange peal was.
Was that the way that particular paint sets up?

[davey g-force]

Re: 36 Lincoln Zephyr extreme color sand

Once again, awesome work Derek!

The paint looks beautiful now.

[BillE]

Re: 36 Lincoln Zephyr extreme color sand

OUTSTANDING!

My body hurts just looking at the work.

Great job...

Bill

[Detail Werks]

Mot sure why the paint had so much texture but I have a couple of idea though.

[InfiniteDetail]

Re: 36 Lincoln Zephyr extreme color sand

What sanding block did you use when sanding by hand? Those reflections are razor straight! Did you use hardwood sanding block?

[DeepShineDetailing]

Re: 36 Lincoln Zephyr extreme color sand

Top notch work!! You turned around that hack of a paint job. I'm pretty sure I could have rolled the paint on better. The holes cut out in the hood must have been done by the painter as well. Again, you made lemonade out of lemons on this one.

[Daniel Kinder]

Re: 36 Lincoln Zephyr extreme color sand

Really a masterpiece you just created

Alot of hard long work indeed my friend!!!!

[Christopher.Brown]

Re: 36 Lincoln Zephyr extreme color sand

Yea this was a cool job. Derek had shown and explained to me a lot about the work he did to this baby. The color REALLY came out and popped after some clarity was given with the time spent on wet sanding and buffing in the hands of an experienced [to put it lightly ] guy who loves hot rod style paint!

Correct me if i'm wrong but it looks like the painter laid down a solid color coat since i dont see too many imperfections in the base in the after pics. So it would appear that the painter got sloppy or impatient on the clear. I dunno, Derek please chime in since its hard to tell from pics...

But i have a couple other questions:

1] How many layers of clear were you working with?

2] Did you use the DA sander for the initial knock down of the clear or for the finish steps? I definitely saw hand patterns in the pics.. so just curious what order you used DA and Hand for the majority of accessible areas.

3] Since all of the panels have either a pronounced or slight curvature to them; what block(s) did you primarily use? Im assuming you possibly used a semi hard foam for the majority of the "flatter" panels?

[Detail Werks]

Hey Chris sorry for the delay ed answers, I'm not exactly sure how much clear was on the car as I do not use a paint meter but the painter said 6 coats.
We used wooden blocks for our first steps 800 grit - 1500 then moved to disc's for finishing.