1974 Camaro , continued

[Venom]

Hey Mark, those fenders are looking real good all smoothed out like that ... It’s gonna’ look great painted!👍

[MarkJ]

1 hour ago, Venom said:

Hey Mark, those fenders are looking real good all smoothed out like that ... It’s gonna’ look great painted!👍

Thanks, Josh. I'm hoping to put my first coat of primer on the body today. Having it all one color should help the way it looks. 

[MarkJ]

Put my first coat of primer on with a brush. Went on a little rough, but I did not reduce it down any, so next time it should be a little smoother. Doesn't really matter because I'll be sanding it down to get rid of the nooks and crannys here and there on the body anyway. I will use white primer the second time around so I can detect low spots easier. Pretty happy with the using of the brush. Now I can paint in air conditioned comfort the same place I do the build.

 

[Anglia105E]

The Camaro body looks good in primer, Mark....... I would not have thought to apply the primer by brush, as I always use rattle can grey, white, red or orange filler primer, but you have set me thinking now !

David

[MarkJ]

1 hour ago, Anglia105E said:

The Camaro body looks good in primer, Mark....... I would not have thought to apply the primer by brush, as I always use rattle can grey, white, red or orange filler primer, but you have set me thinking now !

David

Pierre Rivard got me thinking about brush when I saw the great work he was doing with it. He started the "The Brush Painters Society" over in another forum and I joined and plan on doing nothing but brush painting from now on.  click on the link below and see for yourself.

Randy Ayers Nascar Modeling Forums :: View topic - The Brush Painters Society (randyayersmodeling.com)

[Venom]

1 hour ago, MarkJ said:

Pierre Rivard got me thinking about brush when I saw the great work he was doing with it. He started the "The Brush Painters Society" over in another forum and I joined and plan on doing nothing but brush painting from now on.  click on the link below and see for yourself.

Randy Ayers Nascar Modeling Forums :: View topic - The Brush Painters Society (randyayersmodeling.com)

Hey Mark. I looked at some of Pierre’s cars in the link... not too shabby for brushed on. I especially like the weathering he did on the underbelly. I was wondering though, does he use primer or just flat paint for his base layer?... It appears he’s developed some good formulas.

[MarkJ]

48 minutes ago, Venom said:

Hey Mark. I looked at some of Pierre’s cars in the link... not too shabby for brushed on. I especially like the weathering he did on the underbelly. I was wondering though, does he use primer or just flat paint for his base layer?... It appears he’s developed some good formulas.

I'm not sure if he uses an actual primer. I believe Pierre posts here at model car mag so you could probably shoot him a private message to ask him. The Vallejo gray is a very good primer surfacer, and I needed that for all the nooks and crannys I need to fill on this build. 

[Michael F]

Hi Mark,

the fenderflares look familar to me, i did them the same way on my Gulf Mustang.

Filling and sanding was a pain 😉

Can´t wait to see your Camaro finished!

 

[MarkJ]

Wow, Michael. Those flairs do look a lot like the Camaro's. Excellent job finishing them out. 

[MarkJ]

This primer, when dry, is an extremely hard surface to sand. I had to go down to 600 grit to actually cut into it and do any productive sanding. My next coat will be thinned, so hopefully there wont be huge brush marks. I will probably have to do more coats, but it will be worth it, to not have to sand so much. I will use the same body I used for the chrome moulding study, to get the thinner, which will be distilled water, just right. So  I can come up with a smoother finish , and less sanding. 

[TarheelRick]

You are doing some truly amazing (actually jaw-dropping) work on this Camaro.  I have followed many of your other projects and did not expect anything less.  I see you cut out your fenders the way I used to; now, I use my Dremel with a sanding drum and just sort of sneak up on the line.  Looking forward to more updates.

[MarkJ]

1 hour ago, TarheelRick said:

You are doing some truly amazing (actually jaw-dropping) work on this Camaro.  I have followed many of your other projects and did not expect anything less.  I see you cut out your fenders the way I used to; now, I use my Dremel with a sanding drum and just sort of sneak up on the line.  Looking forward to more updates.

Thanks , Ricky. I don't trust myself with a dremel. I have one but seldom use it. Thanks again for the kind words.

[MarkJ]

I got a little too thick with the primer and started to fill up the door and trunk lines. I tryed to scribe the lines with my scribing tool and the primer did not come out of the groove cleanly . It just balled up down to the original orange plastic, so now I have a mess up, thats going to be hard to fix. I hate to have to strip the primer and start over again. Dont even know if the purple stuff will strip this primer.

[Anglia105E]

4 hours ago, MarkJ said:

I got a little too thick with the primer and started to fill up the door and trunk lines. I tryed to scribe the lines with my scribing tool and the primer did not come out of the groove cleanly . It just balled up down to the original orange plastic, so now I have a mess up, thats going to be hard to fix. I hate to have to strip the primer and start over again. Dont even know if the purple stuff will strip this primer.

Oh no, Mark..... disaster strikes when you least expect it...... This sort of thing has hit me so many times with my most recent build. So hard to deal with !

I find that sleeping on it, and come back to the workbench the following morning with a fresh approach usually helps.

David

[Venom]

Mark,  ^^^^^^ good advice above .... I’m really sorry you’ve got this one to sort out now, and believe me, I feel your pain!

[TransAmMike]

Sorry about the issue my friend.  I've gotten to where anytime I try to scribe something I slip and get off track messing it up. 

Anyway, you'll get it corrected and BTW, the work on the flairs is awesome.

[MarkJ]

1 hour ago, TransAmMike said:

Sorry about the issue my friend.  I've gotten to where anytime I try to scribe something I slip and get off track messing it up. 

Anyway, you'll get it corrected and BTW, the work on the flairs is awesome.

Thanks, Mike. I think I can fix it . Just have to not lose my patience at this juncture of the build. 

[MarkJ]

4 hours ago, Venom said:

Mark,  ^^^^^^ good advice above .... I’m really sorry you’ve got this one to sort out now, and believe me, I feel your pain!

Thanks, Josh. Hopefully its just a bump in the road. I will know better after the coat of white primer goes on.

[MarkJ]

5 hours ago, Anglia105E said:

Oh no, Mark..... disaster strikes when you least expect it...... This sort of thing has hit me so many times with my most recent build. So hard to deal with !

I find that sleeping on it, and come back to the workbench the following morning with a fresh approach usually helps.

David

Thanks, David. I know one thing. There is no way I'm stripping and starting over. 

[Anglia105E]

1 minute ago, MarkJ said:

Thanks, David. I know one thing. There is no way I'm stripping and starting over. 

I would be thinking the same, having got this far into a lengthy build. White primer is a good idea, and then you should be able to see where this is going.

David

[TarheelRick]

6 hours ago, Anglia105E said:

I find that sleeping on it,

Wouldn't that tend to crush the body?  Sorry, I had to do this.

[Anglia105E]

10 hours ago, TarheelRick said:

Wouldn't that tend to crush the body?  Sorry, I had to do this.

Maybe sleeping close beside it ?

You have a good sense of humour, Ricky !

David

[MarkJ]

I've been having a problem with priming which you will see in the latest photos. I put the primer on with the brush and then to get rid of the brush strokes I wet sand. In order to get rid of the stokes, I end up sanding back down to the gray primer or even the orange body. I have decided on my next attempt to dab the primer on instead of brush it on. Maybe it will flow out better and I wont have to sand as hard to get a smooth surface to apply the color coat. I'm not giving up on using a brush. 

[Pierre Rivard]

Courage my friend. It took me a while. From my experience if you see a brush stroke when applying, the paint is still too viscous. Stop ans wash the body immediately. Dilute the pain more and apply a thinner coat...if that makes sense.

Edited September 15, 2021 by Pierre Rivard

[MarkJ]

2 hours ago, Pierre Rivard said:

Courage my friend. It took me a while. From my experience if you see a brush stroke when applying, the paint is still too viscous. Stop ans wash the body immediately. Dilute the pain more and apply a thinner coat...if that makes sense.

That makes perfect sense, Pierre. I've been playing with different strokes and thinning of paint and finally started getting good results when I got to 7 drops of thinner to 7 drops of primer. I used a smaller brush and made short dabby strokes just trying to get the paint on without any brush marks. kind of pushing the paint along watching it carefully to keep it wet. knowing that when it dried it would be less thick and no brush marks. Hopefully I wont have to sand as much when this primer drys. Thanks for your input. If this works out okay I will report about it in the brush painter society thread.