Picking a Shop and a Paint Scheme

Now you have decided on your custom paint shop, you are comfortable leaving your ride in the hands of someone else. Next is the trickiest part of all. What color, what art or graphics? After all the bodywork, primer and blocking is done you'll be ready for paint. So, here are body basics. To start we use a 180 grit sand paper to rough up the raw sheet metal. An etch primer is applied and then it is time to sling mudd, body filler, bondo etc…We then sand the mudd using a grit paper appropriate for the amount of shaping to be done. Now we are ready for a primer filler which we spray 3 to 4 coats. We are going to use this to fill our sanding scratches. At this point we double check all our bodywork, glaze (a thinner mudd) & if needed re-prime. Next step, is to guide coat by appling a black mist of paint or powder over the surface to be sanded. Most paint stores sell a product for this specific application.
We’ll use 320 with a block and our hand and sand all the black guide coat away. You may end up with small pinholes which we'll catch in the next coat of primer. So we repeat the primer filler process finishing off with water and 600 grit. Double check and you should be ready for basecoat.
Next time we'll explain different base coats. If you have any questions please email us.

Thanks and I look forward to painting your ride
NASH