Body work by Project86
 

Well im gonna start this thread for

1. To answer questions from others here on the forum who are interested in doing their own body work.

2. To receive constructive critizism from other who are in the refinishing field professionally.

Although was trained and have a degree in this field there is alot i still dont know. Please enjoy what i have done so far. :coolgleamA:

First off ill start with my car. Used to be red. I completely refinished the car while i was attending college. I was trained with BASF products (Glasurit, Diamont, Limco) and i use the same products on all the work featured here thus far. These pictures are before, during and after.

That'll be all for now for my car....:seeya:

Next up is my friend Kyle's car. Its a Brilliant Black turbo S5. I moulded Panspeed replica overfenders to the front and will reshoot it a metallic black.

More of Kyle's (haukbeeb on the forum)

Currently the fenders are in primer and the rest of the car has been spot primed and is nearly ready for paint, minus general prep.

And now for FC3SMurray's

I just did his front bumper, lip, and fender trip pieces. I had to re-shoot his bumper 2 times... First time because I wasnt familiar with the clearcoat i used. It was extremely thin and it ran really bad. 2nd time i had to respray because im fairly certain the basecoat reacted funny with the product that was on the bumper from the first spray. So i sanded it down to the primer and reshot once more. This time i used a clear that i am familiar with. I still got a few runs as you can see. Ill go ahead and attribute this to my own lack of experiece. Temp may have played a part in it as well.. it was a bit chilly but i had to get it done. The runs on the surface are small enough that they can be fixed for sure. the runs in the fog light hole wont be seen when the bumper is on the car so i dont think it should be and issue.

Although im kind of wondering if im shooting the first coat of clear too heavy, which maybe what caused the runs this time around..:dunno:

Really it doesnt look to bad. Im trying not to be too hard on myself because there are alot of things that i just cant control at this point compared to when i was in school. There are a few more variables when you are dealing with make shift facilities.

Pretty nice work, looking good IMO.

Thanks.. i take this all pretty seriously. i cant stand half assed work.

That's a great attitude, keep up the great work.

Im thinking about maybe starting my own side business doing body work for local rotary guys when i get moved. well see what happens i suppose :)

Sometime in the future I would definitely love to have you bring my poor car's exterior back to life. Right now it looks cancerous, with the clear slowly peeling away.

Id love to :) feel free to post pictures of current body issues or just poor paint here in this thread too. Lets see it Zach.

Get here soon.

My FB is going to need a spray this summer, if not sooner/later.

Right now the front is half sanded/primered/looks like crap.

Also, when I pick up a new rear bumper cover from my Mazda6, it will need to be sprayed as well!

Quit backing into shit... :fawk:

Haha well it looks like i have 3 projects for sure so far. I won't be gettin down there till about middle or endish of Augus cause my little sister is gettin married...

Time for a de-rail.

Pics or Ban.

Pics of ? Proof of wedding? Lol

Rotary Forum law. Anytime any female is mentioned you have to post up pics or the ban hammer will fall.

Haha ok...I will post when I get home from work

Here is a pic of said engaged sister.... please dont drop the ban hammer:leaving:

Here are the pics of the fenders in primer. There isnt a whole lot left to be done before the car will be ready for paint. Just have to DA the whole car with 500 grit and then clean, remask, etc. Hopefully ill have a paint date set soon.

Im personally pleased so far at how the flares turned out since this was my first experience with anything like that. LMK what you guys think.

Well damn! I was just about to but every time I try to attach a picture an upload error occurs. :dunno:

I made 13 pics of obvious areas of concern, I'll try again on my personal computer.

Ok sounds good. Ill check up again after work today if im still functioning hahaa.

The problem was the file size being too large, going to attempt to reduce it tonight when I come back to work

ya it the uploader doesnt like RAW files. I think i reduced mine to 640x480 or something along those lines.

Yeah these are JPEGs with a width of 4368 pixels and heght of 2912 pixels

aaaaaannnnd we need pictures

In non-rotary related work.....I may or may not be posting some pictures of this old trans am im working on for a guy here in town. It really is nothing special. Dents are just being removed and body lines being rebuilt. The work thats on it right now is fly by night. My first experience with fixing someone elses crap.

Let me tell you tis not fun. Basically what he wants done is just basic fixes. then we are gonna seal it and reshoot it. Some basic things that I personally would do are not going to get done because he really just doesnt want the time put into it.

If there is any interest in seeing the car lmk. Otherwise i probably wont take the time to post the pics up.

Alright fellas.. Im gonna be doing some more painting today. Stay tuned. More pics soon.

Get to it burrother

So i ran into a weird problem with the paint. I was mixing the reducer into the basecoat and it seemed really runny for some reason... I thought maybe it had something to do with a difference in brand.

Im at this point still plannin on using Limco base on the car unless the paint rep sends me up Diamont to replace it. But anyway. I went to spray the front bumper and it was almost like i was spraying just black water. It even ran off the corner of the bumper which is outrageous... so monday i will have more news and hopefully later this week pictures of the finished parts.

Yeah Yeah, still workin on that. Gotta resize these pics.

Finally got them converted, here you go! :lurk5:

Starting from the front left, you can see my custom gator skin paint job
http://rotarycarclub.com/rotary_foru...0&d=1304923824
Along the driver side door
http://rotarycarclub.com/rotary_foru...9&d=1304923813
Rear 1/4 panel with previous owner work
http://rotarycarclub.com/rotary_foru...8&d=1304923801
http://rotarycarclub.com/rotary_foru...7&d=1304922651
My original handle broke so here's my new one.
http://rotarycarclub.com/rotary_foru...1&d=1304923834

No idea WTF this is
http://rotarycarclub.com/rotary_foru...2&d=1304926181
. . . or this
http://rotarycarclub.com/rotary_foru...3&d=1304926191
I only assume this is from being pushed in a previous life.
http://rotarycarclub.com/rotary_foru...4&d=1304926198
And movin on to the passenger side you can see that the cancerous custom gator skin has spread
http://rotarycarclub.com/rotary_foru...5&d=1304926206

R/S damage
http://rotarycarclub.com/rotary_foru...6&d=1304926805
http://rotarycarclub.com/rotary_foru...7&d=1304926818
Door dings
http://rotarycarclub.com/rotary_foru...8&d=1304926829
More hood peel
http://rotarycarclub.com/rotary_foru...9&d=1304926841

The End

I have those same stupid push dents in the back. Luckily I don't a ton of dents, but I've got the custom gator skin too, and actually mines about 350 times worse. Haha

The funny thing is, most 2nd gens. I see have dents there. They were all more than likely pushed at one point in time.

Worse?! your car must have a terminal paint job.

Good news is none of that is really as bad as it looks! :001_005:

...except for the places on the rear bumper you werent sure of.. those spots look like a really bad half assed plastic repair attempt.:cuss:

Your car looks pretty straight though. Im curious to see whats under the paint where you said the previous owner worked on it. sometimes those spots are tragically bad:beatdeadhorse5: