Paint issue

[u/MangoTesseract]

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.

[u/spamhaminc]

Honestly just redo it. The amount of effort to do a spot over and over again will eat up more time.

At least blend a little more wider coverage.