

Paint takes skill, prepping does not and prepping takes the most time. If you want a 5k paint job and don’t want to spend 5k, you are going to have to do a lot on your own. Re: Tiger stripes in my Matte/Flat clear. If you want a 5k quality paint job, you’re going to have to pay 5k. My says the gun is not clean enough inside.has built up paint in it causing it not to flow enough material and air to get the paint to lay right.Įven if when you clean your gun thoroughly each time after painting it builds up and has to be soaked and cleaned well while it is apart to get it to flow enough air and paint sometimes. Can the surface be dulled down by other means? I cannot pinpoint what caused the striping other than my IMperfect painting skills, so a respray could return the same results. I am curious as to what can be done if the situation doesn't improve. I obviously won't be satisfied with an uneven finish. I suspect that the glossy areas will dull down as they fully dry. You will never understand patience until you have a child AND paint a guitar Here is a tiger I painted for a customer. Do it right as if for the final time, because stripping paint gets old. My instincts are to wait it out, thinking that as the clear cures, it will flatten out. Don't do that, because you'll just be stripping and re-doing it all over. This clear is a PPG product that has given good results in the past. I get NO tiger stripes using these guns, even shooting metallics or pearlcoats. I laid on 2 medium coats with a 50 % overlap using the same cheapie harbor freight gun that I have used many times before. I sprayed it yesterday during a daytime temperature of 75 degrees. In reality, there is alternating levels of sheen as if the clear is still drying. The Matte/Flat clear coat I laid down has what can be described as tiger stripes in the clear. Inferno Red body with a Matte Black performance paint treatment. My question is this- should I just scuff the whole car with 600 and reshoot the BC on the top surfaces (where it is striped) then clear the whole car (this is the advice I got from a local painter) or my idea was to get a darker primer or red-oxide primer/sealer and shoot that over the whole car then BC/CC it again.I'm finishing up with the paintwork on a 72 Duster.

Here are a few pictures- it's hard to capture in a photo but it is somewhat evident. when I hold a hand held light about 12 inches above the surface the color looks fine (metallics reflect differently?) and not tiger striped. It appears dark under normal shop lights (lights are fluorescent and on the ceiling). I always attempted to use the 50 percent coverage rule but toward the center of the roof I had a hard time reaching these areas and might have tipped the gun a bit. You have to be careful when spraying with single-stage acrylic or synthetic enamel because of the tendency to cause patching and tiger stripes. However, it looks like it’s a base coat clear coat paint job. This color is very transparent and not an easy one to shoot and keep consistent. I wish you would’ve told me if this is a single-stage or a base coat clear coat paint job. Effective communication, fast booking and got the job done in a day.

I did notice them somewhat when shooting the BC and tried to cover them up but they just seemed to get darker. Tiger Paints HomeAdvisor prescreened Cabinetry Contractors, Painting Contractors. These areas are much darker maroon looking. I have some areas across my roof and deck lid that ended up with some tiger stripes or darker streaks through some of the areas - mainly in the center of these areas where I might have failed to keep the gun perpendicular to the surface. Basecoat was shot over a light gray primer. In another awesome livery designed for the NATO Tiger Meet, this Dassault Rafale gave a badass twist to the tiger-themed paint job. I painted my Aztec Bronze 66 Chevelle last week using a Dupont Chromapremier BC/CC system.
