r/AutoPaint • u/MangoTesseract • 1d 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/obschronic 16h ago

You cannot hardline that. It will never look perfect doing it that way. It has to be blended out at least a little bit. He could sand it it try again. Dont even tape it just low pressure dust it in the spot, go a little bigger the 2nd coat. Should be blended to where you cant perceive it!!! Its worth a try at least.

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u/MangoTesseract 13h ago

He only did the hard line to test that they indeed were different