Plastic dip hood?

[06YarisRS]

Originally Posted by RMcG

06YarisRS,

I appreciate your advice. Can you give a little more detail on how to do the feathering or blending?

Thanks,

R.

Sure. The idea of feathering the basecoat is to create a gradient that blends the color over a distance so that the change in color (there will be one as the paint is never a perfect match) becomes unnoticeable. You an do this by pulling the can away as you reach the end of your pass, or you can roll the can away from being perpendicular to the panel by twisting or flicking your wrist. You are essentially applying lots of paint at the area of damage and fading away (applying paint more thinly the farther you get from the damage). Once you have adequately covered (created your gradient), you mist the gradient.This will give a more uniform finish and the metallics will line up better.

So in summary, you don't paint to the edge of any panel, but blend over a distance. Now, you will clear coat the entire panel, otherwise you will have a different texture and reflectivity. Wet sanding and polishing the clear coat - especially with a high quality product such as SprayMax - will result in great gloss and depth.

Here is a video. I was mistaken earlier as I did not do what is technically an orientation coat. I did what I referred to as misting the panel. Because spray can spray patterns are much narrower than a spray gun, the paint is more prone to striping.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fvSA27QrWI