Restoration detail, simulate galvanized

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On old mustangs, there should be bare "dolly" marks where the original galvanized steel shows through. How can I simulate this look?



Her is an example from Virginia Mustangs blog page:
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Never realised that the bottom side was painted body color, both of mine have been primer overspray or rust, lol.
 
Supposedly it depends on plant and build date. Early Dearborn were supposedly black underneath. Most people think they were all red oxide, because the most popular detailed undercarriages are on Shelby's which were produced in San Jose.
 
I've not tried this myself (cheap disclaimer) but picked this up on another restoration site.

Get two different shades of rattle can silver. Apply one shade and let dry. Apply the second shade and dab with a crumpled up ball of aluminium foil while it's still wet. I imagine a sponge would work as well, but the difficulty lies in the pattern, not the tone.

Or you can get creative with a block of EPS foam and a soldering pencil and make your own tooling.
 
A piece of paper towel wound up and torn off to look like a flower-rose has worked for me, mix up some grey epoxy and darken it a little with black epoxy and put that down for your base-let it cure overnight if you can, take some chrome in a can aresol paint and spray a wet coat then dab it with the towel. Practice on some scrap first.
 
i have an organic pattern airbrush stencil that looks just like that. i dont remember who makes it. ill look when i get in the shop today
 
Bob Hollinshead;28927 said:
A piece of paper towel wound up and torn off to look like a flower-rose has worked for me, mix up some grey epoxy and darken it a little with black epoxy and put that down for your base-let it cure overnight if you can, take some chrome in a can aresol paint and spray a wet coat then dab it with the towel. Practice on some scrap first.
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Since the original look is paint overspray up to the galvanized, I thought I'd have to do my galvanized look, install whatever was going to simulate the dolly then paint the bottom of the car. This car will be black SPI underneath. Can that be sprayed over rattle can chrome without lifting it?

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Jim C;28930 said:
i have an organic pattern airbrush stencil that looks just like that. i dont remember who makes it. ill look when i get in the shop today
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That would be awesome, Thanks!
 
Can spi epoxy be applied to look like drips? I've never tried to make it run or drip, but my guess is if you tried to make it drip, it would "spider" and kinda fish eye, but not really look like whatever was under these cars to begin with.

They looked like this:
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All those little nubs there are welding splatter and they'll still be there after blasting. I wouldn't try to duplicate with epoxy primer.
 
Those are actually drips in the primer from the factory....usually found on the rear floor pan area. They are not easy to duplicate. I clean the area and mask the drips to save them, and then have the body media blasted. Feather in the surrounding areas, and with a fresh coat of red oxide epoxy....looks great.

Scott
 
OK, yeah I looked at the photo closer now and see what ya mean. Trying to recreate imperfections to look perfect is definitely a challenge!
 
jtfx6552;28945 said:
Since the original look is paint overspray up to the galvanized, I thought I'd have to do my galvanized look, install whatever was going to simulate the dolly then paint the bottom of the car. This car will be black SPI underneath. Can that be sprayed over rattle can chrome without lifting it?

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That would be awesome, Thanks!
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The rattle can chrome paint won't work under automotive paint but if you can find some bright basecoat silver that will work. Use a really slow reducer. http://www.spiuserforum.com/showthread.php?470-Bare-steel-paint
 
Maybe a syringe loaded with some polyester primer, apply them upside down, let it start to kick just a little then use the syringe again and inject each one with air for the pock mark affect, allow to cure and shoot one coat of poly over them to blend it all in. test first.
 
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