Wetsand: Garage Painted 2-Tone Rabbit

[LeadingEdgeDetail]

Total of 17 hours, still need to do the roof/lower panels, but it had to leave for a carshow, so I only had 2 nights to work on it!



The paint was barely glossy from so much orangepeel:

Begun sanding with 2000 grit, and it was taking forever:

So I went down to 1200grit, blocksanding, and it still took forever!



Making progress...

Basically I blocksand until the peaks are removed, and the valleys of the orangepeel are hazed over.



80% there...

It's hard to see them when its covered with water!

 

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Finally finished the 1/4 panel about an hour later:

Rotary at ~1600rpm and Menzerna PG Compound

Not too many process pictures anymore, so here are my afters:

:spot

 

[ScubaStevo]

Nice job man. We painted our boat in our garage, and we had major orange peel as well. Nothing some 1000 grit then 3000 grit couldn't take care of.

 

[Five Star]

Gm should hire you :chuckle:

 

[imported_Adamah1]

Wow that orange peel is nasty. Nice save but judging by the severity of the OP and the extent of wetsanding I'd guess the paint will fail within two summers.

 

[LeadingEdgeDetail]

Wow that orange peel is nasty. Nice save but judging by the severity of the OP and the extent of wetsanding I'd guess the paint will fail within two summers.

Two summers would be longer than he'd expect It seems to be repainted yearly :getdown



It was painted in his Garage in 6 days

 

[Joshua312]

Wouldn't it be better for this guy to use his money for a quality paint job and then just take care of the paint rather then paint it in his garage, pay you to wetsand (I can only imagine how expensive it is, I would charge at least $400) and then have it fail in 2 years and do it all over again? lol



Anyways, Thanks for sharing and showing us the progress pictures as well. It turned out great!

 

[LeadingEdgeDetail]

Wouldn't it be better for this guy to use his money for a quality paint job and then just take care of the paint rather then paint it in his garage, pay you to wetsand (I can only imagine how expensive it is, I would charge at least $400) and then have it fail in 2 years and do it all over again? lol



Anyways, Thanks for sharing and showing us the progress pictures as well. It turned out great!

Sometimes, Sometimes not



I believe he paid $650 for the car, and he does all the work himself... Paint probably cost him somewhere around $400, and I charged him $400 for the wetsanding...



Also, he did a TON of bodywork himself, Audi Handles, Shaved Hood, Shaved Markers, as well as 2-tone... All for under $1500... Including the car?



I think he'd be in for about $3000 in paint alone at any shop.......

 

[awahl63]

very nice transformation

 

[Scottwax]

Major improvement! I agree with the others, that probably severely compromised the life of the paint, but that's what happens when you paint in your garage and leave horrific orange peel. You really bailed him out though.

 

[HondaGuy]

Man that looks amazing! And $3k for a paint job would be as good as what you started with. Paint jobs are expensive, well at least where I'm at for a good two tone paint job it would be in the neigborhood of $6-8K.

 

[ZaneO]

Awesome job! What was your process to remove the sanding marks and polish out the car?