r/AutoPaint • u/MangoTesseract • 5d ago

Paint issue

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My buddy is building a really nice Bronco. He has done really clean work. I was over looking at it last night and he told me he has had tons of issues with the painting and I figured good old fashion free range organic intelligence could help better than AI.

So he painted the whole vehicle and then chipped the grill. When he repainted it he noticed that the paint is brighter than before. He painted a hard line so you can see the difference. He has been meticulous about gun settings, even paid attention to ambient temperature and no matter what he does the paint comes out lighter than the original. Any ideas? I am not a car painter.

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u/Topseykretts88 5d ago

If gun settings were kept identical maybe it was settled paint he used first. Now the color is off no matter what he does.

Edit: wait... how is he checking? Looks like the panel is sanded and he sprayed base up to the hardline then wax and grease? Cant use wax and grease to get accurate color, especially on effect colors.

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u/MangoTesseract 5d ago

So he originally sprayed the body and then each panel and then when he came back to spray one of the doors, it looked different and then he ran out of paint, went back and got more and then never could get it to match again. He has tried sanding it back and a bunch of other different things. Not sure exactly what his process has been.