This is our paint booth, it worked out great.

 

Looking good. I have thought of doing the same. It is real hard to find a paint shop for a reasonable price. What are the blue squares for. I thought of using a couple of floor fans to help keep the over spray down.
Gene

 

. . . furnace filters? I've seen them used to filter incoming air when an exhaust fan is operating.

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We attached 30 ' of 3/4 pvc pipe on the ceiling to pinch the plastic to the ceiling. Then we screw boards on both sides of the bottom of the plastic to pinch and weigh down the sides. The filter on the side is placed to allow heat to blow in and the other filters help to keep the dust from coming in. We used paper on the floor instead of water to keep down the dust down under the paper. I have a wall exhaust fan that pulls alot of air.
The pipe is a couple bucks a stick, the plastic is very thin and $20 for 400ft X12ft. The heavy paper for the floor was $8. The filters were 59 cents each, The spray gun was a Menards HVLP $32.

 

Nice economical set-up! Thanks for showing us.

 

Are you going to heat the car before painting?

 

Yes we heated the car the best we could. The temp outside was close to 50 so we got it done yesterday.

 

Looks like it was dipped in fresh caramel! --yummmm...
Nice paint job with such an economical setup! What kind of paint is that? Did you paint on the hood stripes?
Nice...

 

The paint is PPG basecoat clearcoat. We put the base on then waited 30 minutes to lay out the stripes and paint them. It was a pain to lay out the side stripes " 3hrs" but we got them to look pretty nice. Then my son shot 1.5 gallons of clear on it. The stripes are buried and should be smooth after it is color sanded. The trunk pinstripe was a PIA in the corners. We had an issue with some paint peeling under the tape. Some day I'll have to fix them.

 

You've touched on exactly my concern with the BC/CC paints, which is the window available between "tape safe" and "too late". I'll be painting my Custom Cruiser this summer and I wanted to paint ghost flames on it. I've been assuming the need to use an intercoat clear before taping the flames.

 

was that a stencil kit you used for the stripes?

 

Depends on the paint you go with...Spies Hecker 293/295 series bc/cc has an infinite "open window". It is very "custom" friendly. You can put your base color down, come back 3 mos later, tack it, and clear it with no sanding. The "peeling" he was talking about, I wonder if it was between the body color and the primer? We could start a new thread in the paint section on this.

 

We didn't use any stencils, we free handed it. I may not have waited long enough between the last paint coat and the tape. The area that pulled away was the top of the back corner where the pin striping comes to a point. That area seems to accumulate more paint than most other surfaces, I think it may not have been dry in that spot. Under the clear I can see a little remnants of the tape marks in a couple spots. I like to leave a few flaws for the critics and it makes the first scratch or dent easier to deal with.

 

The cost savings by doing it yourself were well worth it, too! Good job!
I need to bring my car to you for painting before you trash your spray booth...

 

Very nice set up ! The paint looks as though it is close to the same color as my 72. did you use an original GM color? What color is your interior?

tim72

 

Looks a lot like my '71 w-30....only bigger!

 

It is the original bittersweet color the car came with. I think it was code 62, The interior is black. It looks very close to the model except for the different color interior. Maybe saturday we'll color sand and buff it out.

 

Looks great, nice job! Definitely post more pics when you get it outside.

 

Sweet looking paint job. Thumbs up!!

 

Very nice.