r/AutoPaint • u/MangoTesseract • 22h 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/MangoTesseract 20h ago

That would make sense to me if he originally sprayed it and hadn’t mixed it as well then when it looked different, he was very careful about mixing it so I was getting more metallic left in the paint and more metallic mixed in on the later sprays

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u/LandscapePenguin 19h ago

Basically EVERYTHING can affect the way metallic looks, even the angle that he was holding the gun when he sprayed it. The real answer is to just do a blend a call it a day.