Well, I've been able to do it - mind you it IS NOT intended to be a
masterpiece, but it does lesson the eye-sore.
When I first purchased my Carmine Red 77 Spit, it had some surface rust
just behind the B posts. I sanded out the paint and surface rust,
primered, sanded, primered, sanded and finally with a close match color
of spray paint and masking off an area a few inches into the original
paint, I sprayed the primer (which was masked off only slightly beyond
the sanded area) with my color allowing some overspray to blend into the
original color. I concentrated my main spray over the primer, though.
Again - I don't plan on keeping it this way - but it looks better than a
splotch of primer or bright red.
When I'm done working on the mechanicals and body work, THEN I'll go all
out, but for now I'd rather keep it from rusting and having to
eventually paint my car twice.
Craig Smith wrote:
>
> The line of demarcation that you talk about is not going to go away using a
> "spray can" to do body work. A pre-sanding, masking, primer app., then a
> final spray with a two part high quality auto paint will eliminate it.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Growe58@aol.com [mailto:Growe58@aol.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 1999 12:27 PM
> To: spitfires@autox.team.net
> Subject: Help with paint touch-up
>
> Hello to the list:
>
> I have just completely my annual sacrificial offering of bondo and
> fiberglass to the gods of winter ravages. The paint touchup from
> an aerosol can is glossy (well, relatively) where it was applied
> directly, but there is a no-man's land of coarse textured overspray
> between it and the original, untouched paint. In addition, and
> probably inevitably, the spray paint is a close, but not exact
> match for the, er, original paint.
>
> The question being: what products, techniques, incantations
> etc do I use to remove the overspray and feather the new paint
> as inobtrusively as possible into the old? In the past, a combination
> of 1500 grit wet and dry and rubbing compound left a prominent
> line of demarcation between the two colors. Note that perfection is
> NOT sought after (I'd hate to start now...), just reasonable blending
> from the 10 foot view.
>
> TIA as always!
>
> -Greg
>
> 78 Spit - daily driver (now with non-metallic fender lips)
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