Garage paint job - Aussie GL project

[ubercraP]

Beautiful, I love the color!

[Dasdubber]

Managed to get the doors relatively straight (not too bad anyway considering they were warped pretty well by the sandblasters) - now just have to find time to finish our house renovations (which you can see half completed in the reflection!).

[mattfaulkner]

For a first timer, garage job, that looks sweet!!! Congrats man. One thing I've seen done (in boothless situations) is to open a door on opposite ends of the room, put a big air conditioning filter against one door, and put fans blowing outward in the other doorway. I painted my car doing this, and it worked really well. Again, you'll never get "boothlike" results, but if you're going to sand the clear, it really shouldn't even matter.

[Dasdubber]

Cheers Matt, paint has come up pretty well. Finished sanding the body with 1500 and 2000 wet and dry - tomorrow will start the buffing process - slowly but surely getting there.

[jimby]

thats ****ing beautiful, its a **** load of work too, i can well appreciate it. earlier this year i did up my mrs's ghia in a similar but not as good a way and its got a feature in may 2005 volksworld, i reckon theres a well deserved magazine feature in the making here

[Angelo Amato]

you have given me inspiration to prep (and maybe paint) my fasty.

if you could, please would you post a brief stage by stage for the prep. i.e. did you strip back to metal ? sand with what grit grades? laying on paint... layers, etc...

cheers.

Angelo (budding painter?!)

[zen]

or better yet, put it in a tech article template (on the main page) at the same time.