Yep, Just a few days till the show, Not that many hours left in the day, Every hour will count now. I just wanted to show you some of the process of how to get
a clay model painted for a review.
Start with a fairly good clay surfaces first, It should be balanced as good as it gets.
next find a really good painter that knows what he's doing. A real must. Kenny O'Neil has been painting cars since 1982 and now owrks with VW as their main paint man.
A good base coat that gets a hard shell polyester coat on the clay. About 3 fairly heavy coats will do for the 1st go around.
Before sanding or the 1st cut happens, It's best to give it some surface filler to fill up pit marks and other surface problems
Sand it down with 220 1st and get your surfaces lined up and smooth
After smoothing it down to a 220 finish it has to go back for a lighter primer finish of 3 more coats.
Its good at this point to start mapping out your graphics of what you want when it comes to window and shut lines
Sand it out this time with 320 grit sandpaper and then after that go to a 600 wet for a real smooth finish
To the paint booth. The finish should feel like glass to the touch.
Wipe it down with a solvent and get ready to apply the base coat. Dark cool gray
That's it for right now. I'll post some more when I get into the deatailing
JTeague
Start with a fairly good clay surfaces first, It should be balanced as good as it gets.
next find a really good painter that knows what he's doing. A real must. Kenny O'Neil has been painting cars since 1982 and now owrks with VW as their main paint man.
A good base coat that gets a hard shell polyester coat on the clay. About 3 fairly heavy coats will do for the 1st go around.
Before sanding or the 1st cut happens, It's best to give it some surface filler to fill up pit marks and other surface problems
Sand it down with 220 1st and get your surfaces lined up and smooth
After smoothing it down to a 220 finish it has to go back for a lighter primer finish of 3 more coats.
Its good at this point to start mapping out your graphics of what you want when it comes to window and shut lines
Sand it out this time with 320 grit sandpaper and then after that go to a 600 wet for a real smooth finish
To the paint booth. The finish should feel like glass to the touch.
Wipe it down with a solvent and get ready to apply the base coat. Dark cool gray
That's it for right now. I'll post some more when I get into the deatailing
JTeague
