Custom Paint Job

[Devis1957]

Want to get the engine and tranny work done first. I do know where Conway is, been through there on my first trip to Bass Pro Shop in the early 90's, back before you could find one in every neighborhood.

It won't cost me more if I mention your name, will it?

[HUMMERcustoms.com/TAZ]

I do not think mentioning I sent you would cost more. But, it could depend on what side of the bed Dragon got up on. No really we are great friends.

I let him have complete controll of what he does to my rig. If I have a certain idea he will see if he can fit it in. I wanted a 12" touchscreen in the center dash section and he worked that out for me. Had a computer built that handles all A/V, gps nav., and tuning software that boots up in scan mode. When rig is started so I can monitor tune and if I see an improvement I can pull over and flash truck computer right then or I can save it then make change later. It will run XM and will be running satelite tv this coming year.

I wanted to mention that Dragon has stripped my H2 to the bone several times and put it back correctly. I would be safe to say OrangeCrush has done so also. I enjoyed getting to see and learn more about my rig than I ever could have. I have no concern taking it apart myself I have helped or got to watch so much.

Tell Dragon I sent you.

TAZ

[Devis1957]

Not looking for anything fancy, has been garage kept, only 9000 miles, so very few imperfections to deal with, no road rash to speak of. I only want that foot deep finish over pewter.

Will contact Dragon and OrangeCrush to see what that would cost me. Thanks

[OrangeCrush]

Originally Posted by Devis1957

Not looking for anything fancy, has been garage kept, only 9000 miles, so very few imperfections to deal with, no road rash to speak of. I only want that foot deep finish over pewter.

Will contact Dragon and OrangeCrush to see what that would cost me. Thanks

Just for the record, pewter is not the ideal color to have a foot deep finish "look".

That color can shine but it's not really the best color for deep look if you know what I mean.

Obviously, the darker the color, the better the deep look. I'm going to give an example using two extremes....black and white. I don't need to explain further but I was just trying to make a point.

HTH's,

Mark

[HUMMERcustoms.com/TAZ]

Mark is exactly right on the color. I'm not a painter but, I have spent plenty of time look at colors coming out of Dragon's shop and choosing test colors for my H2. You can most likely take your rig to a good body shop and get as good a job as you can get on that color. Now if it had more of a deeper charcol grey color something might turn out better.

But, I defer to Mark take black versus white as a scale and pewter is going to be way up towards white as far as depth of color.

I picked stealth gray for the reason of it's deeper end on the scale so as to get deep shine. Even when we paint the mall queen we retain the original stealth color but, add to it or around it.

Take Mark's advice pewter can look good but, not the way a deeper color will so don't get expectation to high. There can be several coats of clear with sanding inbetween and it will look better than factory. When we painted my H2 the first time we were surprised how thin a coat of clear it had on it from factory. We shoot depending on vendor 3 to 5 coats if I remember right. The last paint job we do this next year will have allot of coats as it will be the girls final makeup into her older age.

TAZ

[OrangeCrush]

Originally Posted by HUMMERcustoms.com/TAZ

The last paint job we do this next year will have allot of coats as it will be the girls final makeup into her older age.

TAZ

I know you know this but more is not better. We recently did a $13K paintjob on a '63 split window Corvette.

Most of the money was spent on prep (fiberglass, do I need to say more....lots of blocking and sanding, blocking and sanding)

Granted, a paintjob like that is really two paintjobs. Once it's painted and cleared, it should be sanded, blocked and completely repainted.

THAT is for straightness. I just did the same on an El camino I'm putting together for myself. It's black and needs to be straight.

Point is, typically, we'll put 3-5 clearcoats on a paintjob assuming that we are wetsanding and buffing 1-2 coats worth of clear off it.

And yes, most manufacturers are skimply on their clear. There are certain cars that are notorious for thin clearcoats... to the point, we won't wetsand and buff the factory paintjobs. (ie. Mustangs, Corvettes, etc)

Mark

[HUMMERcustoms.com/TAZ]

Mark

You said it better than I could. It is why there are profesionals in each area of work on Our rides and that is the reason I let the Pros's like yourself do the work in paint and body work.

I know enough to help a little but, also sometimes knowing enough to be dangerous.

I do feel more comfortable in the engine, tuning, and rest of driveline. I'm not a Pro but, just study about it more and practice it sense my first hot rod 1968 Mustang 289 hi performance at 16. My parents had no idea the terror they had released with that temporary lapse of kindness.

I as always defer to Mark it is how he makes a living owning more than 1 shop. You must know what you are doing to reach that level of success.

Thanks Mark for clarify what I was wanting to convey as part of my response. You just know how to get to the answer with shorter words. Look at this post need I say more. But, then again I would not be TAZ if I did not write novels right Mark. I know you understand me better than most of new members since we have been here longer than many. Co-Pilot and KenP once suggested my post should be counted as 2 for 1.

Thanks Buddy and all our forum Buds that tolerate me.

TAZ