1st and 2nd Base Coat down! !!!!

[Nochain]

Got the first and second base coat down. Layed down very nice. A couple of very minor drips no orange peel just dead flat. Very pleased. Plan was 4 coats but I don’t think its needed.

Using Wanda 2:1 with activator over SPI Epoxy Primer Sealer and 5 coats SPI Epoxy white Primer. Temporary garage paint booth.

 

[Nochain]

3rd coat. I don’t believe I need a 4th? Its even and well covered so I might just stop? What do you think?

 

['68 Coronet R/T]

I generally shoot 3 coats of base unless it is a lighter color.
So did you crawl inside the trunk?

 

[Nochain]

I generally shoot 3 coats of base unless it is a lighter color.
So did you crawl inside the trunk?

Practically what a PITA that trunk is… also it’s a hog on paint!

 

[Rick Shatswell]

That looks assume

I‘m going to tackle a duster trunk next week.

 

['68 Coronet R/T]

I had to do that same thing a couple of times. Now I have a rotisserie and can flip the car in any direction I need to reach those areas.
Wish I would have bought one 20 years ago.

 

[Lizer]

Basecoat is almost like water and you shouldn’t get any orange peel with it unless you’re doing something very wrong. It will lay down very flat and smooth.

The best thing to do if you think you’re done is to push it out into the sunlight and check it. That will expose a lot of things you can’t tell in the booth. Especially with that Wanda basecoat on which I’ve heard from two different professionals now that it doesn’t cover well in their experience.

Seeing it in the sunlight while standing 10 or 20 feet back can expose things you don’t see in your booth. And they could be things you’d be very sorry you didn’t fix if you skip over the step.

 

[dhutton01]

I use a cheap Astro Sunlight with booth lights off to check coverage. It’s quite effective.

Don

 

['68 Coronet R/T]

Basecoat is almost like water and you shouldn’t get any orange peel with it unless you’re doing something very wrong. It will lay down very flat and smooth.

The best thing to do if you think you’re done is to push it out into the sunlight and check it. That will expose a lot of things you can’t tell in the booth. Especially with that Wanda basecoat on which I’ve heard from two different professionals now that it doesn’t cover well in their experience.

Seeing it in the sunlight while standing 10 or 20 feet back can expose things you don’t see in your booth. And they could be things you’d be very sorry you didn’t fix if you skip over the step.

I used Wanda on this Jeep:

It turned out very nice but I wasn't overly impressed with the paint.
Now Motobase LV has impressed me greatly. Sprays and covers great, plus it mixes 1:1 with reducer.

 

[Nochain]

4th Coat of Universal Clear some runs that I’ll fix but overall happy. I had 0 trash until my fan got blocked by some plastic and kicked up some trash on my final 4th coat darn it. Well I have to cut the runs well see how that helps with the trash. Then I’ll buff. Thank you Barry for your excellent customer support! Also a shout out to Jim K. as well! Having great people to help do something this technical and involved that I don’t do very much means so much to me! These days customer support is nonexistent in most places but SPI has been great!
Thanks to everyone also who had helpful comments and gave me support during this process.
It’s going to be a long road to complete still bit Il post pictures along the way.
Thanks everyone!
Ron

 

[Leonard1]

Looks great

 

['68 Coronet R/T]

Good job! It should cut and buff out real nice.

 

[Lizer]

I used Wanda on this Jeep:
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It turned out very nice but I wasn't overly impressed with the paint.
Now Motobase LV has impressed me greatly. Sprays and covers great, plus it mixes 1:1 with reducer.

I've sprayed Motobase on 3 different projects and Motocryl on 1 so far, and in all cases it's been very good with excellent coverage.

What about the Wanda did not impress you?

 

[Nochain]

Coverage using Wanda for me was 3 coats over white epoxy. The only reason I did 4 coats was because thats what I used on the panels.

3 coats over white is about as good as one can expect. I was able to buy it locally which was important to me since mail order is not conducive to operations.

I believe its good quality with good coverage and the color was exactly what I was looking for. It was about $465 a gallon also. It is 2:1 so keep that in mind.

 

['68 Coronet R/T]

I've sprayed Motobase on 3 different projects and Motocryl on 1 so far, and in all cases it's been very good with excellent coverage.

What about the Wanda did not impress you?

Mainly the 2:1 mixing ratio. You only get 6 quarts of RTS rather than 8 quarts. This to me equates to needing more paint to get the same amount of coverage.

 

[AAE]

Mainly the 2:1 mixing ratio. You only get 6 quarts of RTS rather than 8 quarts. This to me equates to needing more paint to get the same amount of coverage.

I'm not too smart, but, wouldn't the 2:1 create faster coverage?

 

[Lizer]

I'm not too smart, but, wouldn't the 2:1 create faster coverage?

It means there’s more pigment or a finer pigment in a 1:1, because it needs to be diluted out more to achieve the same coverage.

So a 1:1 would theoretically have the same coverage but with less paint.

 

[Barry]

2.1 is a price increase.
Let's say a gallon of the base is 400 dollars.
You mix 1.1, and a gallon of the reducer is 60 dollars for a mix of 2 gallons. Two gallons.
Divide 460÷2. You save money

So I take the 400-dollar-a-gallon paint, and I add solvent, so you add less reducer.
You just lost 2 quarts of paint.
Paint costs more than reducer.

That's why I tell people my turbo primer is the cheapest I sell, even though the list price is more.

 

[AAE]

Could my Standox (2:1) effectively be reduced 1:1? Is it a ploy to sell more product?

 

[Barry]

Nope, it won't cover well at all, and if metallic will throw off color.