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This is quite the paint tutorial. Please be sure to post the failures too. Even those can inspire a starting point for someone. 

A friend of mine and I have been developing an ongoing art project and I think we are inspired by, and learn more from each others failures as we do from our discoveries.

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Some things just don't want to work out, and I am ok with that, I always get things sorted in the end. I simply couldn't come up with a design flow that worked and made me happy. Not wanting to strip the entire shell AGAIN I did some prestripping with ISO alcohol, then I decided to do one side at a time with Easy-Off. This has been a real challenge, I think it's the colours. I am having real trouble visualizing the layout in my mind.


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As someone else mentioned, we can learn just as much watching people mess up paint jobs, as we can watching someone get it right first time !  The biggest problem I have with lowrider paint jobs is designing something I'm truly happy with, and then its trying to paint what you can picture in your head !  

Keep going Lloyd were all learning with you here, ain't no shame in getting it wrong, its how the best painters become the best by trial and error....:)

  • 2 weeks later...
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The orange in the centre just wasn't going to work with my plan so it all had to go. 

Round 3?

Round and round I go, where it'll stop I have no idea. Although this time I can say I finally have a complete finished working plan in my head. Please stand by.  Next step will be to mask the lace off so I can lay down the black for the Spaz Stix Ultra Chrome on the entire shell. 

Thanks for looking in.

  • 3 months later...
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Hi guys, haven't been here too much, sorry. Been following a few of the builds going on though.

Well not having much luck with the paint on this. Perhaps I am just being to picky, what ever either way this it the direction I am going now. 

Slapping this one out. How ever it turns out this time is how it will remain. At least one more colour stage and some more treatments and I will call it done.

Thanks for looking in. 

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A couple more colour steps, clear coat and a good polish.

These colours are really hard to photograph. 

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